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Sounds good to me. To measure the pump volume, fill a gallon bucket with the pump and time it. If it fills it in a minute that would 60 gallons an hour. Don't pump the water faster than that or you will defeat the purpose and you will have all the problems people have had with UGFs and you will...

I just walk out here with a bucket

As was aaid here somewhere, I have been using it for forty years, so far no problems. I filter it through a coffe filter to remove plankton and jellyfish but it is not really necesary. All of your animals came from NSW, none of them came from ASW so it should be no surprise. And if you ever...

Seems OK I can't picture it. As long as you are pumping about 50 GPH down each tube it should be fine. I don't use a reverse pump. I just pump water into a plastic container and the tubes are connected top the bottom of that.

They are not local fish and come from the Caribbean so they don't have to get used to reef temperature. The butterflies would not be reef safe as they would pick on SPS corals but they are fine in my reef as I only have LPS corals with only one SPS. That little puffer would not be reef safe only...

I think it's about 75 degrees this time of the year.

Here is some stuff I collected today along with a million pipefish which I returned to the sea, another million blowfish, which I also returned and a load of trumpet fish, needle fish, and wrasses. We also collected five gallons of spearing, to eat. Me not the fish. This picture was taken in my...

I catch them in a bay off the Atlantic

New pictures of locally collected stuff. I just love this 1/2" boxfish or burrfish. And of course these guys

I have a bunch of those mud snails in my reef and they have been in there for two summers. They seem to be reef safe and never go near the corals. They like the glass. Almost all of the crabs you can collect locally will live in your tank. You may not want to put them in there but they will...

I just bought a new net and am going back wednesday. I have a bunch of spotfins but I want more lookdowns and boxfish. I am also going for blue claw crabs. You got to eat. 8)

Hurtback my problem is also not enough time. I retired 19 months ago and have been busier than when I worked. I may have to go back to work so I can take a day off 8)

I collected a bunch of them last week along with one threadfin lookdown and a really beautiful boxfish. I am going again next week for tropicals and blueclaw crabs for dinner 8)

Very simple, use "regular Clorox" and water. All of my rock, which I collected I bleached in the hotel room before I brought it on the plane. No live rock was used in those days. The bleach will oxidize all of the dead organisms which are still in that ereock then after air drying, all of the...

I completed the boiler installation yesterday and it is busy making hot water. The thing is very quiet, I can't even hear it and there is no waste heat. You could sit on the thing and it does not even get warm. Even the PVC vent pipe barely gets over room temperature. I am very happy with it so...

We collected this guy also

It is illegal to take lobsters after they lay the eggs and they are hangong on the female but the eggs are inside the lobster before they lay them and you don't know that until you cut open the lobster. Those are fine to take.

The last time I went to Ocean City was great. I was surfing and I broke my collar bone and tore the bursa and rotator cuff. I got to be out of work for a few months which for me was always a good thing. I just think of it as a vacation with pain but I will take a vacation no matter what comes...

Hey Qwik, crab roe is fine. I think fish roe would be better with more oil but I doubt it makes that much difference. Don't feed that stuff as a staple meal though. Only a few times a week if you can. The more fish oil you can get into fish, the healthier they will be.

I don't want to give you guys too many ideas all at once. I need to save some for my old age when I start pushing my RUGF on everyone. But then no tanks will ever crash and I like having the oldest tank on these forums ;D