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We had company over tonight and were sitting out on our porch where I have our humming bird feeders. I filled it about a week or so ago. A male hummer came in to feed. First one we've seen this season. Seems early, but they are back. Get those feeders out there.

Happy Birthday Teri....have a great day.

Looks good Mark.....very nicely done.

But I don't think he'll play nice with my two tangs.....not to mention I only have a 90 gallon tank! :o

I'm scratching my head on this one as well. Typical drug store hydrogen peroxide is 3%. So to determine ppm of this stock solution: ppm = 3 g / 100 g (mls) x 1,000,000 = 30,000 ppm If you simply dilute this by half, that is 15,000 ppm.

I wish I had a larger tank, I'd be all over this. I'm already pushing it having two zebrasomas (scopas and yellow), in my little tank. The tang police would certainly have a warrent for my arrest if I went for this. GLWS

I would turn off the GFO immediately. For biopellets to work, you need both nitrates and phosphates. Once the biopellets kick in (about eight weeks or so), and you still have a disproportionate amount of phosphate, you could then restart GFO. Again, the proportion of nitrate to phosphate...

I can only guess that the reason for the 1/3 add per week is to allow time to seed the pellets and / or to assure you don't rapidily strip the nitrates/phosphates too quickly.

The bacteria eat the pellets....it's food. They grow and divide, and in the process utilize nitrates and phosphates (at approximately 16:1). The tumbling causes for some to be swept away and removed from your tank in your skimmer. And they eat more, grow, divide and get swept away...

Never swapped out. You just have to continue adding more as the bacteria eat up the pellets. As far as cost, if you purchase the 1 gallon container from BRS (normally $160), during a group buy, you can pick them up for $128.

Well I know they make 12" T5 fixtures because that is what I have over my saw in the shop. The issue is that I am not aware of anyone making the fancy aquarium bulbs for this size fixture. I have a "standard" bulb in my little fixture that was purchased at Home Depot. The bulb (without...

Well, here's the issue, it's not so much the chlorine (whatever that might be today), or the chlorine remover (which in the past was sodium thiosulfate).....it's the byproducts of the oxidation of all that crap that was in the rock and sand. Your nitrates (nitrites and ammonia too), phosphates...

I don't understand that. The last gallon of Kilz Complete I purchase dried very fast. Whatever organic solvent they used was very smelly (actually noxious), and dried to the touch within maybe 15 minutes. I can only guess they changed this organic solvent.

I'm not sure what baking soda will do that fresh water can't handle. For all the single celled, or small celled organisms that I know of, going from salt to fresh water causes too great of an osmotic difference, and the cells burst. It is common practive with blood cells to harvest the...

And then what? You would now have a dead tank with by products of oxidation from the bleach....a nightmare. If you wish to re use rock and sand, I'd take both out and rinse and clean using tap water. Clean up the tank with vinegar, and start fresh.

Looks great Anthony and Terri! Can't wait to see it filled with water.

Bump it up for any last minute folks who wish to join us tomorrow. A little "give back" to the club. RSVP HERE.

You got it Bob....between the food and the old man hand......twelve and a half clams.

George, I purchased mine at the East Brunswick store on Route 18.....and they had hundreds of them.

Brandon, sorry to hear this. This hobby is brutal....just when you think all is well, it kicks you where the sun don't shine. Hang in there buddy.