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My 72 gallon reef tank MUST GO DOWN tomorrow. I have 7-8 corals left that need homes. Free to whomever comes and gets them. (see my previous post on breaking down my 72 for pictures) Their a little hairy due to poor tank maintenance, but some of them actually seem to have thrived under poor...

I had to leave the state suddenly last June to take a job, leaving behind my poor wife to take care of the reef tank. As you can guess, I have a hair farm now, but there are still some nice animals I need to find a home for IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS, as the house has finally sold. HALLELUJAH. I'll...

So, after having been unemployed for the last 7 months, I've accepted a job in Texas. We're loading up lock, stock and barrel and heading south. I'm trying to figure out what the heck to do with the reef tank. Sell off my stock and start over down there? Load up the animals into coolers with...

I have an old 55 gallon tank and stand I need to get rid of. Too many tanks, no more room. Tank is fine, was in continuous service up until last year. The stand doesn't "exactly" fit the tank, but it's worked fine for me for many years. Lights just a plain old fluorescent. $25 Buyer must take...

I've been trying to entice my Mandarin Goby to eat with some fish roe. I put a glass dish in the tank and then drop the eggs into the dish with a baster. They sink and pretty much stay put until he eats them, or at least that was the plan. For the last 3 days, I've come back into the room only...

This might make one sweet deal for somebody who had the room to house it (and a need for it). I just don't have a place for it. http://newjersey.craigslist.org/for/1080322916.html

I know there a few club members like me heavily into Halloween. For those of you also afflicted: Next month, April 10 & 11, is the Eastern Haunters Convention at the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA. There are going to be vendor booths and seminars. Even a costume ball for...

I was in Petsmart last night and saw a lady buying the stuff to keep a Beta. The salesgirl led her to the fishbowls and there on the shelf right next to them was...bottled water for your fish. Marked Beta H20, it was a one quart bottle of "specially" conditioned water for a mere $3.99. If the...

I had a 10 gallon quarantine tank set up in my basement for the last 3-4 months. I just recently moved all the stock from it into my main tank. I hadn't taken the quarantine tank down, but have completely ignored for the last month or so - nothing of value was in it. Yesterday, I started working...

There is a very informative article in the April edition of Tropical Fish Hobbyist by James Fatherree. He wanted to see just what impact reflectors had on the intensity of T5 lighting making it down into the tank. He tested the light intensity with the reflectors blacked out with tape and then...

First, I would like to say, This was one helluva a lot more work than I planned on!!! Maybe it would go faster for others, but I know I've got at least 40 hours in it. Second, the sizes I used work for me on MY tank. I can't guarantee your tank is just like mine, though it likely is. PLEASE...

I currently have a 40 gallon reef setup with Live Rock, Sort corals, peppermint shrimp and assorted crabs/snails. I've set up, seeded and cured a 72 Bowfront to move all this into and it's now ready to go. But, what's the best way to go about making the transfer? Do I need to put all corals in a...

I picked up a few of these at a local pet store last night. They were supposed to be blue leg hermits. I threw them in the QT tank last night when I got home. This morning I took a closer look at them, and they don't exactly look like Blue Legs. I don't want to unload marauders into my tank...

So, big H day is almost here, which means it's time to pull everything out of storage for my other big passion - Halloween. You can encounter all kinds of strange beings at my house. Graveyard creatures Fire Breathing Dragons Horrific Giant monsters Demonic Aliens (careful this one...

I'd snatch this up in a heartbeat if it would only fit on my 72 Bowfront. http://nd.craigslist.org/for/851194952.html Sells for over $800 new. Even if you have to buy new bulbs, you'd still make out.

I have a Berlin Red Sea skimmer I picked up. It has no pump. (Isn't that always the case with these things?) I want to run it off my return pump which has excess capacity. The issue I have is, How do I connect a hose to the skimmers intake nozzle? I can just push the hose over the top of it...

We all are so equipment focused sometimes. Gotta have that new skimmer, Gotta have a refugium, can't live without the latest, greatest ACME super duper water purifying device. "You can't possibly set up a reef tank of any size for under a grand!!!" ...and yet, here is a guy that has an...

I know a lot of us are watching the progression of LED lighting into the hobby very closely and with great interest. (I know this, because every time you see a thread posted on a forum that has any real detail, the guy immediately gets mobbed with requests for info) :D I'm doing a lot of...

I had a few nervous moments Saturday night. A short while after the winds kicked up, we lost power. I didn't immediately panic, as we rarely lose it for long, only for a few minutes in this case. But, it was enough to send to me to the basement with a flashlight, rooting around for those old...

I'm in the process of setting up my new 72, but I'm stalled on what to put on the bottom. I've always run my smaller tank with a Jaubert Plenum in the bottom of it. I'm trying to decide whether or not to duplicate that in the larger one - or do something else entirely. There is so much...