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An equally good external pump is Pan World. I believe the company was started by an Iwaki engineer, so the pumps are very similar. MAG’s are good internal pumps as well. With 120 gallon DT, you should not have any problem with heat dissipation. You’re heaters might not run much, but you...

Sorry for the flippant response….my mind immediately went to medical grade lasers, which are very costly. That link looks pretty cool….so for $300 or less you can zap pests to your hearts content.

If you give me about 30-40 thousand dollars I might be able to find a used laser and then test it out! With enough energy, the laser would vaporize the miscreants in your tank. Would most definitely work, albeit considerably cheaper to tear down your entire tank and start new! Maybe we...

Having preformed a complex statistic analysis by scratching my head and cleaning the ear wax in my left ear with my pinky finger, I’ve determined that there is no difference in chemical results between the Salifert kit versus the Red Sea Pro kit. However, there is statistical difference in the...

The chlorine should be long gone. Just cure it before putting it in your tank.

Well Herb, if you’d like to hear from the peons, there is a chance that it might be at a members abode in the Indian Lake area of the state…..POST 17.

Danger Will Robinson, Danger! I’ve tried adding a second pair of clowns twice…..both times were total failures. Don’t do it World War III!

HERE’s an example of a cone skimmer that uses a fraction of the electricity of a MAG. There are others from similar manufactures. You can typically pick these up used for 2-3 hundred clams.

The “worm-like” orange thing is most likely a hair or spaghetti worm. Either one is good. Here’s the hair worm that is cruising around my tank

Here’s a Tiger’s Tail climbing the glass: Never really impressed with this guys cleaning ability, so I gave him away. Now I have a Red and Black cuc and he motors around the sand, leaving clean sand poop all over the place. With both cucs, I never saw them eating cyano. FYI, on...

Jim, sort of scratching my head as to why you’re getting carbonate deposits with “normal” levels of alc and calc. If you’re also maintaining magnesium, you shouldn’t be getting all this carbonate deposits. Assuming all things are normal, I’m guessing the microenvironment where the alc/calc...

Bax, for a quick fix today, try your local hobby shop. Can’t remember who posted this, but they found that the carbon fiber rod available at the local hobby shop is the same diameter as the impeller shafts. Now it’s not ceramic, but it might be enough of a temporary fix until the replacement...

All horizontal, vertical, fittings, etc...phase of the moon.....come into play. The easiest is to use the calculator on RC, found HERE.

Bax, here’s my experience with an Atman 2500….on an SWC 160. It is a mesh wheel pump and it was stalling….not completely….but not maintaining a bubble-filled column. I played with nylon washers (at HD in those drawers in the Hardware section). I found that three washers on the mesh wheel...

Steve, either way, you can’t put that rock right back into a tank and not expect it to cycle. You’ll have to wait the customary one month or so until the bacteria clean up the death mess that occurs. You can kick-start the process by adding one of the bacteria mixes they have, like Bio-Spira...

If it's a filefish, the common one in New Jersey is the Planehead.....gets to about 10-12 inches.

Jim, good stuff. When you say “make up,” I’m assuming this is freshly made saltwater (Reef Crystals, if I’m not mistaken)? What is the source of water….I’m hoping RO/DI? And where does your water come from…..municipal or well? That alk number is just down right funky! I can...

Steve, sorrow to hear about this. I know you’re a bit far away, but I have two Brute cans if you need them. They are the thirty something gallon ones. I also have a 75 gallon glass tank sitting empty at the moment. If this is your second tank, I’d take a real good look at your stand to make...

These numbers are hard to believe. At those levels, you’d be precipitating carbonate. Something is not right. How can the alkalinity be so high if you’re not dosing (either sodium bicarbonate or sodium carbonate)….just doesn’t make chemical sense. And high alkalinity doesn’t...

RBTA’s are not aggressive anemones and will not “eat” fish unless they are sickly. Accordingly, I’d go for an RBTA if you can.