Recent content by sillingw

Hi Terry, A sigle button PRINT - I know it's an on-line version, But I still like to get a hard copy to read.

mine loves live brine shrimp - won't touch formula one or two no flake, no frozen brine nothing unless it's moving!! it's a good job I have a 240 gallon and there's plenty of life on the rocks, but I still get live clams from the grocery store - crack them open just enough for his long nose and...

The Nori that I use is sold in the local supermarket for sushi wrap - just make sure you get the non-toasted, non-flavoured, non-everything else variety, you need just 100% dried seaweed

they never get the chance, I put my nori on a clip, the yellow tang, naso tang, lawnmower blennie and the coral beauty all watch from behind rocks and as soon as the hood goes back down, the feeding frenzy starts, the green chromis join in and the copperband watches in amazement - he doesn't...

get the nori going - the clowns won't touch it, get one of those clips that have a plastic suction cup and put it on the front of the galss - then leave him alone - he will eat the nori and he can slowly get used to you (he had a whole ocean a short while ago) it'll take some time - also try...

salifert, the price depends, if you have no testing supplies, look for the on-line stores that do a bundle of the common ones, I know I got a reefkeeper bundle that saved me some money, but also gave me a couple of test kits that I find next to useless - I must be pink color blind because the...

not sure it's tonight, I thought it was the 17th anyway the site is: http://www.bareonline.org/Next_Meeting/next_meeting.html

brine shrimp are good if you "gut feed" them for an hour or two first, just put them in a container with an airstone and some selcon - the shrimp take in the selcon, the fish take in the shrimp - and tangs love the brine shrimp as well.

I have a 240, two corner overflows - two return pumps (Better safe than sorry) they are mag24's - powerfull reasonably quiet and reliable) for a skimmer - I chose the cpr cy294 which I really like - I used the bio bail for the first 6 months thru the cycle and for a while afterwards - I then...

I bought a copperband to deal with my aptaisia, he's been with me for about three months - finicky eater though he will eat clams mussels and brine shrimp + what he finds on the rock (it's a 240 gallon tank so he finds a lot) But, and it's a big but - he has never touched the aptaisia so I guess...

I agree with kipreefer, Mine is a 30 gallon refugium, with two one inch outputs that gravity feed back into the system. On is drilled slightly higher than the other - my refugium grows quite a bit of algae and I was concerned that the primary outlet may get blocked (this has never happened) so...

I'm not quite sure I understand - it seems like if using actinic/67k then 1-1 ratio is good, if using actinic/10k then 1/3 ratio is good, but which combination would give me the strongest light for inverts? I have 8*96w with actinic/67k on a 1-1 ratio and was thinking of going to 1-1 ration...

Like MyReef, I have CSL 1/3HP, noisy, generates a lot of heat, I couldn't live without it (at least my tank couldn't) it allows me to run the tank at +/- 0.5 deg 24hrs per day. Mine is also in the garage, but this is a serious consideration, they are a lot noisier than pumps and generate a lot...

I have had my copperband for about 3 months, I got an aiptasia outbreak and bought him for that - he never touched the aiptasia but is such a cool addition, I keep him anyway, kinda like hiring a plumber who keeps charging but doesn't do the work, but I'm not sure how to tell him. No trouble to...

I tested mine with tap water first, left it for 48 hours then emptied the tap water filled with RO/DI threw in the salt with 4 powerheads and left it for 24 hours so it could get up to temp - the only problem was adding the sand and rock afterwards - the sand made it cloudy and aquascaping under...