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Wow - neat random fact. I figured almost everyone in this hobby started freshwater...perhaps another thread. You could run a skimmer in freshwater but the bubbles would just keep popping and you'd generate virtually no skim/waste. In other words - it's pretty useless. Of course some skimmers...

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Actually those types of pistols shrimps do not have the symbiotic relationship like the pistols found in the pacific.

it looks like it's missing some of it's arms. I've seen ones like that in my LR. Here's a pic of the other mini-stars that I've seen - but these are typically in my live sand.

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The principle is basically the same as say an in-line chiller. Water flows in from one side of the bucket - and exits the other. You'd probably want to secure a valve on each side into a bulkhead and then that way if you ever want to replace the DSB with a new fresh bucket - you could. You...

I think one point that should be made is that a display "DSB" is not just a "set it and forget it" kind of situation. Even a SB that is less than 2 inches is not maintenance free. In Knopp's book on giant clams, he states that hobbyists occasionally stirring the sand (no different than if a...

I have in the past used a lugols bath and a FWE bath. But I think I've read people use different techniques depending on the coral (e.g. zoa versus sps).

Avoid linkias/fromias - your tank is too small to properly care for a starfish. They are notorious for being delicate shippers and require a lot of LR and preferably a mature tank. A serpent star or brittle star would be a great choice though. I had a red and green one (not the fish eater) and...

yep - it's helpful to reduce nitrates. You'll need a feeder pump for it - I don't know if the salesperson sold you a pump also at trop.

looks nice. The whites stuff - don't know what that is - might have been a sponge or tunicate but whatever it is - looks bleached/dead. Btw - all of my blue-leg hermits in my old 55 hated the "top hat" homes they had but they all LOVED cerith shells. So uh---if you suddenly find your cerith...

maybe you got a Two Little Fishes phosban reactor?

lol...I just posted the same response about the calfo overflow, then read this thread. If you are handy and can make it - I think that solution is ideal. Anyways - I agree with matt! ;D

try googling the "calfo overflow" - I think that technique is ideal if I were to custom diy build an overflow.

you do realize you're responding to a post from 4 years ago...lol.

you "would" or would NOT...I think you're saying "not" right? I believe you'd simply bulkhead the top of the bucket. The water would travel slowly across the top of the sandbed. This would then allow the anaerobic bacteria to build in the bottom of the bucket. This is one of eric borneman's...

ouch - sorry to hear that. Is it possible to ask for your money back - for all you know it was broken before it was even mailed? I guess glue might work - but saltwater is corrosive and I don't know how long that would work.

as long as the 10 gallon was never used with chemicals or treatment for any disease before. Like Copper (Copper will kill your inverts). I've drip acclimated an entire clean up crew before. Ideally you'd have a drip for each bag. It's what - a few bucks for airline tubing?