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Maybe instead of a tank, we should put our reefs in one of those bags :-\ Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone diden't own that company, did he?

Mike, you mean a picture like this one from about 72? I never used canned tuna buit I have fed fresh tuna. I have fed a lot of things including Plaster of Paris but again, for another thread. Mike, Old school is better and it never crashes. ;D

Beer cans, I have very good luck keeping beer cans in my tank. The bottles have a longer lifespan and are easier to care for but I find beer cans to be particulary disease free and cheap. Copperband butterflies also tend to like beer cans better than soda bottles. ???

Wow, I diden't know you were discussing the greatest skimmer ever made. I would have put my 5' model into the discussion. Of course, it's the greatest skimmer ever made and it cost about eight bucks. It was built by Urchin Searchin Enterprise which is my company. ;D I hope you are keeping those...

When will you be adding a beer can? ;D How are you keeping the worms alive?

I can leave if you like. I am on my fifth or sixth diatom, how do people keep a reef without one? I don't know 8)

I have been running ozone 24/7 for about 35 years in the skimmer in the same tank with no carbon. There is no ozone smell and I am quite sure all of the ozone is being used up in the skimmer. I have used UV in the past and find it very useful in a goldfish pond but useless in a tank

Blange, this sounds like a ploy to get me to type all night ;D I am diatoming my tank now so I have time to rant but we just had a 20 or so page thread on this subject that you are well aware of. ;) But while we are on the subject, I like it when I read a post and it says, "my tank just cycled...

How come you guys can get away with just typing one line and I have to go on forever? Can't you ask me a yes or no question? ;D SurfnTurf, thanks for that bacterial lecture on U Tube, I really enjoyed it. Mad Reefer, I do put a little of that mud right in the container where it gets pumped...

My dive partner recently took this picture in the Caymans. I told him I needed a picture of fry. See the white dots to the left of the nurse shark? Those are fry and is what fish snack on all day. They are all over the place.

I did it again, I wrote a page and somehow lost it. I will try again in a shorter version. Fish in the sea do not eat flakes, pellets, clams, squid, beef heart, angel formula, mysis, or brine shrimp. Fish in the sea eat fish, and a lot of them. Fish, unlike us need massive quantities of the...

My meaning of course was to inform newbees to NOT do some of the things I do. As I said my tank is an experiment and I have lost plenty of animals in the fifty + years I have been doing this. You should quarantine and you may not want to put mud in your tank. These are my ideas and plenty of...

No you don't, come back here and get back in this discussion ;D

Beer, actually I don't spend a lot of time on maintenance at all besides clean the glass. I certainly don't spend time on changing water. Much of my time is on inventing new things or building rock. I don't think I spend an hour a week on the tank. I just typed an entire page and lost it so I am...

Wow you read that fast. Beerfish, keeping in mind that I am an electrician and not a researcher these ideas are only mine from my own experience. Some of the people's tanks here far surpass mine in beauty. My tank is and always has been an experiment. I do things that I would not always...

Beerfish you are totally correct in saying I am adding "unknown" chemicals, algae's and creatures along with possably cyano into my reef. I can't argue with that. But I am saying (IMO) the good outweighs the bad. I do sometimes have a short red algae in my tank that looks a lot like cyano but it...

Thats exactly what I am saying. If you could get live rock form the sea or some that has been in the sea recently, that would be great, but rock that was in someones tank for years would not do anything. I collect from the Sound and the Atlantic because I live here. I am sure the Sound has...

I don't know any of them that has an old enough tank to really know. Most of this hobby is conjecture and guesswork (same thing I guess) There are not too many real facts. I do my own research and have dove with just about every animal I have ever had. I have a cousin who is a marine biologist...

Phyl, if you have an electrician in the family you can get them top contact NPCP http://www.npcpsolar.com/ Or contact me and I will call them for you. I don't think you can buy them directly but an electrician can. It also helps if he took the one day course on how to install them. The panels...

It is my belief that whatever system you run it will greatly benefit from adding bacteria from the sea. I feel that eventually, in a couple of years the bacterial diversity of our tanks will suffer and we will be left with only a few strains of bacteria many of which will not benefit our tanks...