soggydrysuit

Hi,

I don't think I can help you with the specific JPEG you requested ('Electron Periodic Table Chart' sounds like a specific educational product) because I work in a UK uni rather than a US one but there's a very nice interactive table here http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/ptdata/table/index.htm if it's of any interest?

If you wish, I can try to find you a good generic JPEG if you still need one...

Cheers,

Andrew

Hi there,

Seahorse.org is very good source of reliable sh info. I've got a contribution here http://www.simplyseahorses.co.uk/, not sure if I'm allowed to post the link because it's a shop but it's in the Uk and has a good section of condensed info on sh keeping. Seahorse sanctuary is also very good. There's also a forum that addresses most problems although it's not used much at the moment.

I just thought I'd add my 2p because I used to keep H. barbouri. I lost them due to internal parasites that I think they got because I mixed tank bred horse with wild pipefish and wasn't quick enough with treatment.

I do want to have another try when finances permit. Tanks still there, just running empty with feeding to keep the rock/filters going.

Many thanks for your replies, they make a lot of sense. 120g min noted. So six by two by two feet may be ok for a chance...? Prob is I may only manage a 5 by 2 by 2 to fit in a certain alcove. Or throw a sofa out and get an 8 by 2 by 2.

If I quit smoking, I'll afford it quite quickly...! (don't worry this is the room I keep most of my tanks in and it has a concrete slab floor at ground level).

There's a powder blue in my LFS - it's huge for one for sale in a shop at four to five inches. That's the second one I've seen there, the first was smaller, was covered in ich and this ones got lymphocystis (can be fixed) AND ick. I'm trying not to encourage him to get more by buying and attempting to fix the fish in the 60g ? usg - ukg (48 by 15 by 21 inch) tank I do have - way too small. BTW, shop one is a 15 - 20g and not centralised.

I'd love to do a tank including an emporer angel, porc puffer and a powder blue - must be into a 200g system there not including a large sump. Have to be a FOWLR, I suppose unless the powder blue would do better in a reef environment? Then it would have to be alone.

If you were going to set a tank up specifically for a powder blue, how would it go?

Strong currents, sure - surge machines. Algae, loads of it - any preference on the algae or just nori on a lettuce clip? I do have a double 150W 10,000k MH which might do that job. Would a sump based synthetic filtration sysyem be better than piles of LR - I've got just 40kg.

I'd just value your opinions - there is no rhubarb on this board and you all seem scarily competent at reefing!

Non-marine related below, just for interest if any are...

Slight joke - I'm running a 360g koi vat (plastic stock tank from Laguna) as a tank for a red belly pacu so maybe something that size would do?! I'm currently just sorting the condensation problems this has created in a concrete floored conservatory. Fortunatly most things in there are inert or plastic coated...

My problem is I seem to want to keep literally everything. If they come from as different an environment and are as different as possible then that's me. Pacu and freshwater pipefish, seahorses and triggers. I'm a very slight loonie with pufferfish, too. There is one 'normal fw tetra tank' in the house. But that's set up for my lady wife and she picks the fish for that.

Just wondering what size tank would you consider a good size for one of these - 6 foot?

Wow! I think you were very lucky you didn't touch anything that could have made an earth path through you - ZAP!

I'd chuck it for peace of mind if nothing else. Even if you used silicone sealent it would flex loose and the water would get in. I'm pretty sure there is no safe way to fix things like this.

I think marine tanks have the potential to start housefires if you don't keep an eye out for this kind of thing - sw getting into plugs because of no drip loop - and dodgy wiring.

I'm also one who has done silly things and nearly didn't get away with it. I had two double 55W T5 units cable tied to the inside of a plastic hood on a 40g reef and every so often I'd have to replace then or the heat would degrade the plastic and make the ties brittle. I'd just touched the hood on this tank and one of the lights fell off. I went to grab it and just stopped myself. Into the water it went. Fizz, pop, sizzle, clunk went the RCD trip. Lucky that. It was a bad design - get corrosion on the end caps after time too from the salt. Corroded copper from the contacts falling into the tank is not the best idea either...

Hi there,

this is my first post here and I'm from the UK so I hope you dont mind me registering. This just seemed like a very, very good sw board !

I keep what looks to me to a very similar species of mussel here but in coldwater/temperate conditions. Some I've got from the beach, some from the local supermarket (to use as pufferfish food). This batch seems ok so far (4mths) but the water temperature has been way below tropical reef temps - 60F max. I've tried collecting and keeping them in the summer and lost them due to either high temp or inadiquate filtration.

These are in a tiny hex 20l coldwater native marine tank in an outhouse with an overhead trickle filter and with very few inhabitants - just several Actinia equina anemone's. No fish. I'm hoping that the mussels get enough sustanance from the frozen food I feed to the 'nems.

I've also tried tropical oysters in m my 150l reef, these lasted six months for no obvious reason apart from feeding. These has access to coral food but I wonder if it was enough. If they were Mediterranian sp then there may have been heat stress too.

have had some trop mussels growing on my LR for years - they seem to do OK but are tiny.

The point on possibly introducing a possibly invasive species is a valid one - the zebra mussel is a case in point.

Interesting thread...