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After seeing JerseyWendy's thread, Bit of Paridise, could the second one be "Bird of Paridise?" I'm guessing.

It sounds like a neat idea. However, I think you are going to have a difficult time balancing the two pumps. Slight change in either pump is going to be a problem. A little something gets on an impeller, flood.

KH is Alkalinity. Your first number is meq/l (milliequivalents per liter) while your second one is the German equivalence (Degree Karbonate Hardness).  To convert meq/l to KH (or dKH), multiply meq by 2.8.  I don’t know why you reported it as ppm?? I think most like to see their dKH between 7...

The Festivus pole is up and the meal is done. You do know what time it is Hawkeye…”Feats of Strength.” I’m assuming you are the head of household…time to wrestle until you are pinned. Happy Festivus everyone!

Takes 3 - 4 days for the sand storm to subside.

The other consideration is to mix your salt up before taking it out of the bucket (or bag), to make your water. Your salt contains different minerals that could settle. What I do is put the bucket on its side and roll it back and forth a whole bunch of times before I take anything out. Also...

Buy a whole bunch of SPS! ;D ;D ;D

One question….I know it’s Chanukah where the celebration of one day’s worth of oil lasted eight days. But how does live rock from a 15 gallon tank that is transferred to a 72 gallon tank leave you with “tons of live rock to spare.” It’s a miracle! :o

One correction to your question....it's tankS, with a big "S". Here's the breakdown of tanks. Second floor bedroom 1: Ten gallon plant tank (grow tank for freshwater plants) Second floor bedroom 2: 55 gallon red eared slider turtle tank Second floor hallway: 40 gallon goldfish tank First...

Yellow coraline! Coraline comes in many colors. If it looks like coraline....

This year I’m having a major problem with humidity…condensation on the windows causing mold to grow. A little history; Anderson e-glass windows, no additional humidification, boiler/hot water for heating. Measured humidity upstairs at 67%, downstairs at 53%. I do run the house a little cold…60...

You’ve asked a bunch of questions. I wish to tackle what I feel is the most critical. Yes, you do have to test before you add fish. I’m hoping you’re testing frequently now. At a minimum, you should be testing and measuring salinity, ph, ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and alkalinity. Magnesium...

I opened this thread thinking that I was going to see ideas for what you might want in that stocking that was hung by the chimney with great care. Instead…well you know the rest...it's that time of year. If Santa reads this, please, not the same as last year…rotten apple and a piece of coal. I...

You can NOT drill tempered. It will shatter. I think you know that because of your comment about not enough room. If you have a tempered bottom, and you want to drill, all holes must be in the vertical sides.

Well Old Salty, when I was breeding freshwater fish, this was my filter of choice for the fry.  You wouldn’t loose any baby fish into a “sucking” filter.  From a spawn of tiger barbs, I’d have hundreds of fish.  None lost to the filter. With salt, this is another story.  I’m assuming you have...

My suggestion would be to do a search on cycling a saltwater aquarium to get a better idea of what needs to happen.  It takes (while waving my hands in the air), 2  -  6 weeks to cycle a tank.  The measure of when it is done is by testing for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.  The difference in time...

Isn't this a little scary? I would venture this would cause a spike as well from the killer chill.

Don't have first hand knowledge, but FENG of Red Sand Aquariums in Dunellen has been mentioned as a good builder.

The impact of heavy metals on reef viability has been extensively studied.  Amounts of some heavy metals in the ppb range (that’s a b for billion, or mg/l), have caused growth problems and death to corals. Would you throw a penny into your tank.  I hope not, because we all know that at very low...

If the lights go out suddenly (power failure or blew a circuit), the RBTA freaks out by either getting real big or real small. If you are just shutting down big lights to darkness, that’s normal. I go from shutting down the four t5’s to a single fluorescent for about 45 minutes before going to...