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Try this site: Custom Cutting Boards I saw at least one reefer get it on another board and she really liked it. In a reef tank with white sand, a fair amount of light will get reflected back up off the sand for your corals. Similarly, if I were to go BB, I'd consider adding this to help...

you'll get more views if you start a new thread. For example - you could start a thread in the Fish/FOWLR forum asking "fish for my 55 gallon tank?" Or something like that. A great book btw on fish identification is Rob Fenner's Conscientious Marine Aquarist. Anyways - I didn't know baggai's...

Wendy - on the quit smoking attempts...I found a great quote for you: If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. Thomas Edison. So go yea forward! (hopefully it's not 10,000 tries though!). ;)

If you have a canopy and don't mind the look - I put some styrofoam on top of my overflow to cut off the light/algae growth.

would you be DIY'ing it and adding maybe a Calfo overflow to the set up? If so then you could place the box in the center and use the corners for the returns. That stated, it's pretty deep at 30". I'm a small guy so personally I wouldn't like it since I would have a hard time reaching to the...

Well - just a sec. I just realized one could dose phyto to feed the refugium fauna (e.g. your copepods). On the other hand, if you think the corals look better after dosing one drop gallon - then who am I to argue? But I'm pretty sure others have kept those same corals you listed without...

Phyto is a requirement for things that are filter feeders. I guess a good example would be a baby clam. Are your corals (the blasto) showing their feeder tentacles when you dose? If not - I'm not even sure I'd bother. The torch and zoos should be fine without eating anything at all - they rely...

American DJ Panel It's not a timer- but I prefer it over the regular ole' extension cords. Combined with a sharpie marker (to note which switch is for which pump) - it's helpful. Of course the controller phyl suggested would probably be the best.

what corals do you have that require phyto feast?

If you go with the seios, just be sure to DIY or pick up some magnets to secure them. The mounting feet lose suction pretty quickly. You could glue them to a magfloat or something.

not saying that you'll have problems - but one of the things I love about tunze is their service. If you have any problems - talk to rodney or roger and they will take care of you. I can pm you how to contact them if you ever need it!

I am not a big fan of the SEIO - though there is at least one reefer on here who likes them - I forget who it is...maybe he can speak up. Why not a Tunze 6060? It's a bit bulky but at 11W it pushes 1600 gph. You could have the tunze and the K2 on one side, and the K3 and the return on the other.

Not me - but my kids go to the yard and while they don't go that far back - it's a little disturbing! The ivy is coming in from the other side of our back fence - each leaf is bigger than the palm of my hand. :o In essence this is the mother colony that is spreading spores all over. Think...

also in my experience, maxis add heat to a tank - the smaller the tank, the more noticeable the degree change. Of course it's a moot point if you're cranking the AC.

. * Cleanliness- I'm not looking for Monk/o.c.d. clean, but the fish room should not feel humid. It should not smell. The floor should be relatively dry. *Minor quip- It would be nice if the store accepted all major credit cards.

...on the exterminator who helped me rid our house of a few carpenter ants. Stupid carpenters...they somehow found a hole underneath our siding and were running up/down the plumbing pipes. :o At first he thought there might have been a colony in our laundry room (this is where I eventually hope...

I say go for it. You'll lose the shimmer but gain on the heat exchange and the longer life on the T5s. As mentioned, because you're looking at a 36" rather than a 48" fixture - you're going to lose some light on the ends of the tank(3" each side). Were you using T5s before with the 55? (before...

An alternative would be a pair of tunze 6025s... "At a diameter of only 2.75" it enables a water flow of 660gph at an energy consumption of only 7W"

photos are always welcome.... ;D thanks for serving! oh and word of caution on the xenia - it can grow into plaguelike proportions - so if you want to be able to remove/extract it later, it's not a bad idea to place some small LR next to it.

I read somewhere...I forget...New England had some kind of scuba club and they went out towards the end of summer (right before the jet stream shifts and cold water comes back) - they caught a ton of ornamental fish (juvenile butterflies, angels etc.) to be placed in tanks because they would...