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I am in the process of building a DIY skimmer out of pvc and acrylic, as for a pump I bought a Rio 2500, I know they have a bad reputation but at 18 years old I don't have a whole lot of money to spend. The Rio 2500 had a Venturi attachment come with it, but when I hooked it all up and got it...

I've been given the assignment to give a speech on anything I choose in my English class. I decided to do it on the symbiotic relationship between a clownfish and their host anemones. Right now I have Joyce Wilkerson's Clownfishs and a lot of information I have gathered off of the internet...

In my one rock there are two little caves on the front of it. But in the one cave there is something black and shiny living in there, that comes out at night. I have never gotten a clear view of this creature, but I think from the looks of it that it might be a type of slug or something. But...

Here's an video of my 8 month old 55 gallon reef tank. I dont have the greatest camera, so the focus isnt real great, but hopefully it will do for now. http://www.users.voicenet.com/~lesburn1/My_WebCam/

Right now on my 55 gallon, I have one 400 watt 5,500k bulb and a 40 watt Fluorescent Actinic bulb. I am looking to replace my current metal halide bulb because it is old and really yellow...I would like to upgrade to a 10,000k bulb. What make bulb would you reccomend, and what web sites could...

Right now my lighting on my 55 gallon reef is one 400 watt Metal Halide bulb, and its pretty dark in sides of the tank. I was wondering if it would work for me to buy another Socket and hook it up, and run two 175 watt bulbs off of the 400 watt ballast? Thanks

What do you think would be the best RO unit to get. Right now im on a tight budget with my after high school job. I was thinking someting like Kent's Bare Bones unit. Right now I am just using a water filter I made with a Canster filter and a cartridge from home depot. But I am having a...

What do you think is the best way to does calcium? Would it be kalk, I am looking for something that is relatively inexpensive. I bought a test kit today it said my calcium is at 380 and my alk is at 3.2, will I need to raise my alk as well? Thanks

Last night I got my stuff from IPSF. One of the things I ordered was bristleworms, all day today they were on my one piece of LR, and tonight when I was watching them, my cleaner shrimp came up and started attacking one of the bristleworms. He ripped it in half and then ate the whole thing. Is...

Tonight I will be getting my Anthelia Polyps from my ipsf order. I was wondering if it is needed to does calcium for all corals or just hard corals. Thanks

Has anyone ordered form this company? If so were you please with what you got? I am thinking of ordering their 9 for $99 deal. But my mom seems kind of skeptical about this company, and wanted me to do a little research on them before I went a head and bought the stuff. Thanks [ September 30...

I want to build this protein skimmer. Is there anyone who has this skimmer and is willing to give me it's dimentions? Thanks, Les

Right now I have a newly setup 55 gallon reef tank in my basement. I was thinking of putting a 55 gallon barrel in my garage, and running piping though the wall into my sump for water top off. Now I need to what would work better for this a Float switch or a float valve. And what company...

Right now my reef tank is about two months old, and I have tons of hair algae all over the rocks. The tank is a 55 gallon, and right now all I have in there are one brittle star, one cleaner shrimp, and nineteen cerith snails. I was looking at a Scopas Tang, because they had a lot of them at...

I have had mine for 2 days now, so far he has eaten Formula A and Prawn, I will probablly stick with feeding him prawn or something of the sort, because it is less expensix, but every time he smells food, he dashes to the oposite side of the aquarium. ow often do you feed, and what do you feed...

Do spaghetti worms have a scientific name. I was trying to explain what spaghetti worms were to the guys that work a my LFS (The Hidden Reef) and they had no idea what I was talking about, had never seen them or heard of them. So next time I go in I am taking a picture of them in, and if...

Right now in my 10 gallon sump, I have 1 certh snail and some Spaghetti worms. I was thinking of getting a cucumber, would the cucumber and worms be compatible? Thanks Les

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I bought some live rock over the internet, and my tank was not set up, I bought it because it was a sale for 45 lbs of figi rock for $100.00 when at my lfs it would be $270.00. After the rock got to my house, I had to let it sit for 2 day, while I finnished painting my basement, and setting up...

Are there any good sites where I can buy some live sand. I just want to buy a few pounds, to try to start a live sand bed. Thanks Les