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As you build your system, keep an eye on our "For Sale or Trade" section. Buy corals and frags from members, when you can. This can save you a ton of money. Also, this is a hobby of continuous upgrades. Whatever you've got, there's always something better. (lights, pumps, etc) Take advantage of...

All I remember is it was Manhattan somebody, with the really long tank and the narrow tall tank on the end. I only remember the Manhattan part because I was scooping the water out of his tank with a bucket at the end of the day. :P

Maybe Manhattan Reef? If you'd asked me a week ago, I might have remembered. I bought from at least a half dozen different booths, it all runs together now.

You called it, Electric Blues they are. I think I'll go back and buy the rest for $2 each. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+501+1479&pcatid=1479

No, that's just a little torch coral I picked up at the swap. The lighting over my QT isn't the best.

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...

At the frag swap, there was a seminar on Coral Fluorescence, by Charles Mazel I believe. His findings were that very few corals fluoresce under black light, but that many do under certain blue light wavelengths. In fact, he's based a business around selling special blue flash lights with matched...

Maybe you have a Mantis hiding out in there somewhere?

So, what happens on November 17th? Your fish go into hibernation for the winter? :D

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...

One thing, the skimmer you have, I have NEVER seen a kind word written about the Berlin Skimmers. I bought one used without a pump and finally decided not to bother with it after all the terrible things I read.

You might explore an algal Turf Scrubber. I'm going to be experimenting with one of these for my new 72. They can be cheaply and easily made. If it doesn't work, chuck it out. Supposedly, if properly set up and maintained, one of these can significantly reduce Nitrates. I don't know if it's...

Pssst...kid...come over here....want a guppy? How 'bout a nice goldfish.

Hmmm..this is weird. I responded to this post yesterday, but that response is gone now. ??? Anyway, to repeat, I have a 15 year old 55 gallon tank sitting in my basement doing nothing. It had been in continuous use until February of this year, when I replaced it with a 90 because my fish were...

Sorry about your crash But, at least you know how and why it happened. Far too often I see people posting for help on a crash where they had a stable tank, acceptable water parameters, good equipment and everything just suddenly went south for unknown reasons. All you have to do to prevent a...

Corals: Leather Corals Frogspawn Favia Ricordia Mushrooms Green Star Polyps (caution, keep these isolated on a rock on the substrate - they can take over) I list these because they are robust corals that aren't too picky about water and don't really require much in the way of attention. Your...

Hmmm. I wonder if that light would be too much for a 72 bowfront, or if I'd be better off with the 6 bulb lamp.

The diver with the treasure chest makes me laugh. I can just picture the appalled faces of some of the "oh so serious" purists. I'm surprised somebody didn't make him take it out before they would reply. ;D

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I suspect the water change WAS what killed your tank. If you didnt do water changes for 2 and half years, you had a bad case of Old Tank Syndrome going on. The chemistry in a tank like this is such that a large water change can cause a spike in pH, which can convert non-toxic ammonia into lethal...