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PVC is safe of our tanks. It has no plastisizers, so there in nothing to leach out of it (unless is was produced in China, and then I'd be concerned about heavy metals.)

Rigid PVC, which is PVC pipe, is not a problem as far as "harmful elements." "Soft" PVC has to have plasticizers, which have been know to leach, with some being problematic. And PVC, code permitting, can be used for water....OR CPVC. However, you will see more and more use of PEX (Cross...

This is the Eheim Everyday Feeder, which takes either flake or pellets. I will be using flake, because the pellets I have sink, and the fish are either too dumb or slow to get the pellets before they hit the bottom. The problem with flakes is that they float, so a large percentage of those...

I wish I could be there, but it’s the beginning of the soccer season, and I’m sort of stuck on soccer. :(

Automatic fish feeder AUTOMATIC FISH FEEDER We will be bugging out in the next couple of weeks for a little vacation and I had to re-install the automatic fish feeder…..an Eheim Everyday feeder. It was originally installed through a hole in the back of the canopy where the feeder clamped...

Sounds reasonable to me.

Don’t ask my why, but I heard the magnesium thing with hair algae only works if you use Kent’s Tech M. Also, have you looked into peroxide dosing? I’ve heard of people having success using this.

Seahorsekeeper has won the “Moderator of the Month” award over on R2R. So we now have two celebrities amongst us….Jim and Krista. Congratulations Krista.

Good stuff Jim. Just to clarify, with two-part, the calcium portion is calcium chloride while the alkalinity part is either sodium bicarbonate or sodium carbonate. When put into solution, these compounds dissociate into individual ions and reform into calcium carbonate and sodium chloride...

Hopefully one of the breeder people, like Hawkeye, will chime in. I believe they typically isolate the eggs in a separate tank and have rotifers all ready to feed the little fry once they hatch. You set up a nursery just for producing rotifers.

This has happened before. If she is admitting it, call the police. It's criminal!

Just use black eggcrate. Everybody and their mother now sells it, including Bulk Reef Supply.

I believe Jim made a good choice in using muriatic acid. Yes it is hydrochloric acid and should be handled with great care. It will burn skin and eat holes in your cloths. However, it will do nothing to glass and most plastics. So again, if you have a totally calcified piece of equipment...

I would pull the pellets out and let them dry out....spread them out to dry out fast. They are just a carbon source of food for the bacteria. Any filmed bacteria on the pellets will just be food for the new bacteria that moves in after you re-hydrate the pellets.

I would put the reactor in the stock tank with your rock and just run it at the lowest setting to keep the bacteria alive. EDIT TO ADD: Mike S was typing while I was typing and I like his idea even better. Actually just let the pellets dry out. The dead bacteria is just more food to get...

You can pick up a special hydraulic cement (which I can’t remember the name), or just order it from Marco Rock HERE. EDIT TO ADD: Found the name of the stuff: Thorite Cement

Andrew, use a homemade bottle trap. Here’s what you need to do: 1. Buy a large bottle of soda (I think it’s a two liter bottle.) 2. Drink all the soda in one sitting. 3. Burp 4. Burp 5. Don't let Mayor Bloomberg know that I told you to drink that much soda 6. And burp once more. 7...

It's hard to tell from your picture, but I'd put my money on an algae. Look up pictures of Halimeda...that would be my first guess.

80/20 is certainly another option. I've seen both stands and canopies made of 80/20. I see no reason why it can't be used to make hanging brackets.

If the tank is in the corner (I’m assuming at a 45 degree angle to the wall), than simply build a corner shelf and hang the light off that. Here is but one very simple example. (I apologize for the crappy drawing.) The perspective is from looking from below the shelf. This is all...