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  1. Are Coral Beauty and Flame Angle compatable in 125 gallon?

    Wow this is a really old thread. I dont even post here anymore. Well what the heck Im here now. I have a Bi-color and a Flame in my 65 with no problems at all. Some of it depends on what else you have in the tank I believe. I even considered adding a third and going with a coral beauty. It...
  2. shiping fish? any advice?

    Hmmm I dont want to sound mean, but I belive some are confusing "air" with 02. They are not the same thing. Air is mostly comprised of other gases to the tune of 79%. Of course you want 1/3 water and 2/3s "air". What we were talking about was adding medical grade purified oxygen directly...
  3. more on skimmers...new brands!

    When I see pics of skimmers the skimmate looks nothing like what I get in mine. I see brown or very light colored "tea" or even "mt dew" colored skimmate. Im told you cant really judge anything by the color of the skimmate or the amount of it. However, my prism pro pulls out dark green pure...
  4. shiping fish? any advice?

    Atmospheric "air" is 21% oxygen. The air that an average person exhales is %16 oxygen. I would not recommend shipping with 100% purified 02, but if you had some way to enrich the O2 content up to say 40% I would think that might be a good thing. Doubt anyone does this though.
  5. PLENUM'ED SAND BED

    I do have a great deal of anerobic pockets beneath my 4 inch DSB in the form of a 2 inch layer of crushed coral. So far so good. I dont think Ill ever experience such a crash though because over time the argonite will seep down and "seed" the pockets...which means instead of possible large...
  6. List Your Favorite Nemo scene

    "Thats a common misconception. Clowns are no funnier than any other fish." "Welcome to the EAC. I will be your jump leader. Today is a good day for an exit. Please follow these procedure closely and everything will be ok. Rember to keep your fins tucked in neatly and roll." Although I...
  7. Air Curtains in Salt FO tanks

    I didnt know this. My fluval return is very near the surface and at a 90degree angle to a Maxijet 1200. This cause a great deal of surface agitation and lots of bubbles in the tank. i dont notice the noise/ugly look of it because it is on a timer from 6P to 12A is shut off. I always assumed...
  8. Cleaner shrimp question

    Agreed. I dropped a piece of spurila (spelling?) algae tablet in my tank which the Tang missed and the Marine Beta ate whole....he then swam to the back of the rocks and spit it out. My Scarlet crab grabbed it up and went down a whole with it....didnt see him for a day after that.
  9. Funniest things you've heard in the LFS

    Breathing water will do that to ya. :roll: Hey maybe he thought he was at the local doctors office and his "chicklets" were his girlfriends. Or...maybe he thought you were the vet and he had chickens. Maybe he thought his wife had bought their chickens at your shop? Maybe in africa they...
  10. Funniest things you've heard in the LFS

    I think in certain situations the perogative to lean back a little ball up a tight fist and knock day light out of a person is totally justified and should be legal. Customer: "My powder blue tang got ich" Salesperson: "laughing and looking at other workers" Customer: "Well anyway i guess...
  11. Cleaner shrimp question

    My flame and yellow tail damsels wont have anything to do with my scarlet cleaner shrimp....and the poor guy is always trying. He will rarely clean the marine beta. I have also witnessed my neon goby cleaning the marine beta. Usually the other fish "nip" at the cleaner to get him to leave...
  12. How many tanks do you have?

    One 65G FOWLR One 10 Gallon QT tank that doubles as a mixing/heating/aging container for my water changes. Planning a 125 Gallon Reef in a year or so and Ill probably get a 20 Gallon 2nd Quarantine/mixing tank then also.
  13. MAC Creates Responsible Aquarium Keeping Tips Magnetic Card

    Aomthing like that should be put in a pamplet and REQUIRED BY LAW to be given or available to customers in all lfs. Along with a bit more detail on references to read and a general FAQ.
  14. Custom home built to reef tank specifications...

    I like all of your ideas. My favorite thing so far has been to place this "in wall" setup in a special "fish room". Make it so as its viewable from an adjcent room (such as a kitchen or better yet the main living area also). Decorate your fish room with a nice leather recliner, reading lamp...
  15. Weekly Discussion - How do you justify your reef?

    I have high blood pressure. I needed a second hobby to the computer. We have a 2 year old that will grow up more educated on the life which occupies the majority of this planet. It looks good in the living room. We had a spot that needed somthing in it. It is relaxing to watch and doubles...
  16. question on new fish

    Here is what I did. I dont belive in medicating fish. I purchases a 10G (20 gallon would be fine to). I set it up with a small carbon filter and a powerhead. Filled the bottomwith crushed coral. 100W heater and a glasss top (no light). I use this as a mixing facility for my water changes...
  17. Blue Regals poisonous?

    Could just be the spines cut is so irritating that it feels toxic? Anyway, I think all rabbit fish are venomous not just the foxface. And you left off lion fish. There are others but I cant think right now. Certainly some puffers, and I think some file fish. Just about any fish is either a...
  18. New Skimmer question!

    I run my FO just like a reef. 4inch deep sand bed, at least 1lb of lr per gallon, powerful skimmer, good circulation, and above average lighting. 10-20% water changes a month and a good water filter are also fine additions to the plan. Later when you want live corals...all you have to do is...
  19. Los Angeles Times article on 'Finding Nemo' film

    WTF? One whole section of his book explains how food fishing, pollution, developments, etc etc do damage on the order of magnitude worse than the aquarium industry and that the act of keeping these fish makes most people appreciate them and their plight at the hands of the military,government...
  20. Weekly Discussion - Finding Nemo - help or hurt?

    Might be a few hippo tangs shoved into tanks way too small for them the next few months....

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