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Total out of pocket was $23,000.00 of which I got back, $20,000.00 so it cost me $3,000.00. Of that I saved so far $600.00 on my electric bill since October.

That is probably true, thats why I run my reef with a portion of local water, rocks and I also collect local bacteria which I add a few times a year. If you put local fish in a sterile tank like most of them are, I don't think the animal will last long. I don't feel "modern" sterile tanks are...

I don't know what the bacterial theory is. I don't have paracite problems in my tank for some reason, so I never treated any wildcaught fish for them. The babies ate rotifers for a week then new bornbrine shrimp. I grew the shrimp as the horses grew. Brine shrimp can be raised on brewers yeast...

I installed 22 of these panels on my house last October. I got back $20,000.00 in rebates and tax credits. It generates about $100.00 a month for me, or reduces my bill by that much. I installed them myself, I am a retired electrician and I started a small consulting business.

I know this is an old thread but yellow tangs are egg scatterers and do not pass "egg sacks". I don't really know what that is coming out of the tang, but it aint eggs. :( Sorry

I had those seahorses a long time ago. Here is an article I wrote about them in the Breeders Registry. I also invented and patented the feeder which is shown. Thats when we used to feed seahorses brine shrimp. I raised a few batches of them on only that food...

Here are some local NY seahorses, the female is transfering the eggs to the male in my reef.

I have collected, bred and raised those seahorses in my reef. I use some NY water along with some local rocks. I also have snails for over two years and some hermit crabs over a year so far. My local NY tank has been running for about 40 years which I put shrimps, snails, fish and anything...

I have been hatching brine shrimp every day for many years (decades). I could not be able to keep small gobies and bluestripped pipefish with out them. I built a few of these, the eggs are put in the right, dark side and in a day they hatch. A black cover is put over the right side and the...

I collected all of my rock in the sea, some from NY. I just put it in my reef after removing the crabs

Running water down one side and up the other will not work. You can't filter the water on the side where the water comes up the tube. The trick is to get the thing flowing as slow as possable. In your tank, you probably could have gotten by with 10 GPH in each tube.

I forgot the maintenance part, everything that works needs maintenance. That sponge filter or whatever means you use to clean the water going under the gravel needs to be rinsed occasionally and I also stir up the gravel where I can reach a few times a year with a canister filter and suck out...

Here is a picture to show you the size of my dolomite. I just looked for a picture of this set up and it is not on RC anymore so if you need a picture, I will have to take one. But any system where you can push about 50 gallons an hour of filtered water under the gravel will work. Also for all...

Mark, if you run a UG filter like it says in the instructions in the box in saltwater, it will crash in about a year. Trust me. But if you tweek it a bit, it will last forever, be almost maintenance free, reduce nitrates, and be the cheapest system you will find. Another nice part is that you...

I collected it underwater, therefore, it's natural ;D

I am on about 6 of these forums and a good percentage of people don't have the slightest Idea how to run a UG filter. It's not easy to find all of these posts. Especially being I am the only one running one. :-[ Of course, it has been running longer than most of these guys have been alive but...

I only get the aluminum recyclers to say that to me. :'(

Dam, I knew I was running the wrong system for the last 39 years :-[

I am going out in my boat in the Sound in a few minutes. I will be collecting for the first time this year. I like to renew my population of both copepods and amphipods. I will also take grass shrimp (which I give to the LFS and some mud which is what I use to renew my bacteria. I feel that if...

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