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we made a quick and dirty refugium in my friends sump with a cut down plastic container. We drilled some drain holes up high in plastic container and zip tied some plastic canvas mesh as refugium drian back to sump. Input or supply to refugium was from his red sea berlin skimmer output but you...

This is not intended as a slam but.... In my experience snowflake eels are indestructible and immortal! My buddy and I set up a predator tank back in 1998. The snowflake eel was the only survivor of a chlorine bleach poisoning (my friend thought he'd clean the algae off of dead coral...

why are posted pics overlapping on each other and onto next message text?

From http://www.msnbc.com/news/774303.asp?0bl=-0 LITTLE MONSTERS Each time your foot sinks into the sand, you’re squashing perhaps 30,000 animals. They’d scare your pants off—if only you could see them. Many...

Ernie, for collection and retention regulations, start with code of fed regs 622.32 "Prohibited Species" at http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfrhtml_00/Title_50/50cfr622_00.html I'll look some more to see if I find any local/territorial fish and game restrictions here's another good link...

my dwarf angel, a rock beauty, eats them like candy! He doesn't touch any other corals or polyps. I still have some of the anenomes in my frag tank and I will temporarily place the frags in the main tank with the angel and he will graciously clean them off for me! It seems very mixed results...

a U tube would work too. two tanks at same height connected by a few inverted U tubes. Pump from one tank to the other and tubes will maintain same water height in both tanks. use multiple tubes in case one clogs (ie snail) and to add flow capacity. I agree with others. Gravity feed is best...

check out Reefin' Madness III album at my signature url. or at http://community.webshots.com/album/33136501mIlczf I have 120 gal and a 15 gal display tanks plumbed together through a common refugium and sump. have plenty of excess capacity in sump and siphon breaks (or check valve) in event...

no dividers, 4 inch dsb, cheap pvc bulkhead gravity drain to sump, lighting by LOA #9266 very effective. grows caulerpa and critters like crazy. I agree with Sarco on necessity of redundant drains.

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote I received a pump in trade for a skimmer that I believed was a dolphin ss 1200. Based on your above statement, I now believe its a CSL velocity T4 due to the impellar resembling a floating ball and socket arrangement with...

check out the CTSA publications site. http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/CTSA/publications/page2.html many worthwhile publications (some with companion videos) available for free, download, or very cheap! forgot to mention I ordered Simon Ellis Soft Coral Farming publication from them last year...

check www.aquaticeco.com I know they have clear pvc, just not sure if they have that large size.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/29200657/29203692RLCliwfcsk I haven't been flamed in a while... Zephyr is a 2 inch sailfin who has lived in a 15 gal for the past 2.5 months. Within the next month he will go live in a 120. When he grows closer to his maximum size of 12 inches, he will be...

http://www.aquaticeco.com/aquatic1v1/itempg.icl?secid=0&subsecid=28&catid=1435&orderidentifier=ID1011136929580200E14&itmid=6970&dirpage=dir3&iteminfo4=0&eflag=0&curitempos=14&numit ems=25 check out the polyethylene tanks, under tanks and liners, under aquaculture at www.aquaticeco.com

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/coralatlas/introduction.htm