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Austin, thanks for the info. I went back and re-read the TFH article, they certainly gave you good notices. You are livin' the dream! I will definitely make a trip down to see the tank. Maybe I will put a bandage on our elderly pet rabbit and bring her along, so I don't look out of place! ;D I...

I have an older chiller I have never hooked up and now I have to consider plumbing. What's a typical flow rate through one of these puppies? It's a 1/3HP, marked aquatronics.

The current issue of TFH has an article about a 2,000 gallon circular reef installed in a veterinary hospital in Red Bank. Real reef, corals and everything. Has anybody seen it? Is access easy, Is it worth a trip?

His name? "Porno"

OOO, harsh! :o Hey, I'm working on this bad boy almost every day now. I has momentum! I has a fully drilled house and sump! I has a wife who's working a full-time job again to pay for this all! Gettin' close to the wet-down. I keep running out of plumbing parts like unions and it's off to home...

Speaking of which, if I had known about clear PVC when I was in college, I woulda been in BUSINESS! Knowhattamean? Little drilling, a few other (metal) parts and BHANG! You have a salable product. I'm thinking about buying some of the 6" clear PVC and making THE WORLD'S LARGEST BIRDFEEDER. I...

I applied generous silicone to the 2" bulkhead hole, and screwed it on, and tightened up the 1" bulkhead, then leak-tested after it dried. No leaks. Well, 1 drop in 24 hrs out of the big hole, I consider that good luck. Began to glue the return piping. I decided to put a union in the middle and...

I think if you read the legislation you will see that it does not apply to all staghorn coral, just to Acropora Cervicornis and Acropora Palmata, the yellow-brown acros familiar from the Florida Keys, at least in days past. As I interpret the legislation, they want to make illegal the trade in...

I bought some of the black PVC from Savko to make a rock supposr/spraybar for the new tank. It glues just like regular PVC. There is a much smaller assortment of fittings available, though.

I have read and read and read RC posts on drilling glass, and I don't think any liquid is needed when using diamond drills. There has been a lot of mythology over the years (use oil, use antifreeze, use water). Some of this comes from mistaken observations of seeing how glass shops drill. Some...

Actually don't bother. He now says he mostly ignores aquarium questions because they all refer to the same six species. I guess he got tired of people writing in about keyhole limpets ("elephant slugs") ::).

If you really want to know what kind of slug it is, post a good pic or two over at www.seaslugforum.net. Bill Rudman loves to ID those things. If you search on my last name you will see a couple I posted on there over the years!

Thanks very much for your hospitality, Renee!

I bought mine at the feedstore in Hackettstown.

I had an epiphany, I think. I'm going to run the return line along the same wall as the drains rather than up and over the door to the laundry room and back down to the tank. Even though the pipes will have to jog left and right, avoiding the up and over will save me money in electricity every...

Oh! Really Axpensive!

A while back Randy Holmes-Farley did some tests which revealed that the solution does NOT become useless when exposed to air. In a container situation, the kalk exhausts the CO2 in the air layer immediately above the solution, and then the solution is effectively protected fom exposure to CO2...

For several years I just mixed up the solution in a fishtank and delivered it with a hospital feeding pump. Works fine, I grew a lot of SPS with that setup. All the nillssen reactor stuff is either hooey or fine-tuning, depending on your perspective.

OK, so , stay with me here, how about a really tall tank, and in the back , it's got a kind of hatch, and behind the hatch there's a GLOVE BOX! So you open the hatch, and you can get right into the tank and move stuff around!. The pressure would feel kind of weird, but I think you could do it...

I think the problem is that the 4' deep part requires some pretty awesome lighting if you want corals to grow in the bottom half of the tank. I have thought a lot about large tanks (he says as he ponders his unfinished 65 X 30 X 25 tank...) and there comes a point (1000G+?) at which you have...