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Ace those are simply stunning. Thanks for the demo on Saturday. I immediately went home and cut up a toadstool leather. It is doing well.

RIVER CITY AQUARIUMS or Kingfish! We to have denounced certain stores for being jerks and unhelpful. There are too many other good places to go and people to talk to here in Austin to put up with lousy service. The store should be concerned you didn't bring in a water test and your buying lots of new livestock. BTW I think I know where you are talking about and please watch out for aptasia and cyano.

Super cool tank. We have always been nervous about keeping an anemone in our twelve gallon tank. You seem to be able to do it without a problem. Congrats. BTW your bird's nest looks nothing like mine. I find that truly fascinating. Great tank!

Aquadome, but $45 a hole is pretty steep. It might be cheaper to drive to SA and let finaddict do it.

We purchased two new seahorses from Draco Marine. They are hippocampus erectus. I have to say that they are the coolest seahorses we have ever had. I have absolutely nothing but good things to say about Draco marine. They were super friendly and professional. They even shipped the horses in water that matched the salinity of OUR tank. IMPRESSIVE!

Well, we have one new boy and one new girl. There names are Porter and Dolly. For the record Dolly does have big ones...cirri(appendages) that is. Here are some pictures.

Dolly

Porter

Classic seahorse in macro algae shot. The fuzziness is our artistic impression of the seahorse.

Porter eating out of our new feeding station. At our house SPS are good for two things feeding dishes and hitching posts.

A painting Jennifer did of a seahorse in her dream. You will have to ask her the story.

Full Tank shot. Frag Swap acquisitions: Orange Monti cap(middle) and finger leather(bottom left)

...and King Taki Taki Wa Wa

Sweet. I was leaning toward the JBJ because we love the nano cube so much. Even tough they are kind of pricey. Thank you

We have a 30 gallon cube with ten gallon sump. We are looking to keep the temp around 75F. Right now it is fine with a couple of fans, but I am conserned about the summer. I am looking for suggestions on a chiller. I don't know what size we need. Does anyone have any experience with specific chillers? Does any have a used one for sale? I am not really interested in a DIY solution.

thank you

Darn I wanted it too. Well I guess the marines are always first. Full day's work before breakfast right?

One of the two sexy shrimp

and a full tank shot Yep that's right the ricordia fell and second GSP fell off. Darn crabs!

thank you

I will look into those brands. Its pretty exciting to find another really expensive thing for the fish tank.

Does any one no of a temp or ph controller that reports data to an external port? Preferably it would have an RS232 port that told me its current status. I know I could use a Reefkeeper or Auquacontroller, but I am trying to use a custom controller for one of the tanks.

The yasha hasha goby is absolutely my second favorite fish. The flaming prawn goby still takes number one. Super sweet tank. How often do you feed those guys?

Here are some pictures of our 12 gallon Aqaupod. i have done extensive modifications to it. I have added extra 50/50 lights and 1 watt moonlight. I built a custom overflow box for it and attached a 10 gallon refugium. the fuge us run on an opposite photo period from the tank. this is all controlled with an AMX control system and 10" touch screen. I programmed the control system and used a Xantech 690-10 power controller to turn things off. I think the touch screen is super neat.

Fish in the tank: randall's goby, Gudgian goby, Yellow watchman goby, Tallasumpthin' goby, Candy stripe goby(really small), scooter blenny

Inverts; 2 sexy shrimp, peppermint shrimp, emerald crab, really mean blue leg hermits, bunch of snails

Full tank

Touch Screen

Full tank

Some zoos and the clam

ricordia: this started out as a single ricordia and has been splitting like crazy

Gorgonia

The obligatory stony coral aka bird's nest

...and Rosie aka the world's littlest pitbull (Please don't touch the tank or she will have something to say.

Done. I will see you at the swap.

I have three pieces of red gorgonia with white poylps. They are in the way and would be great for some one wanting to try gorgonia. The pieces are $5. One is smaller then the rest so hurry.

All gone thank you

Here is our 30G Oceanic cube. It houses our beloved seahorses. This is the "big tank" in the house. It has been up for almost six months now. For lighting we are using a TEK Nova 24 watt X 2 T5 retrofit kit. I can say we are very happy and impressed by the T5 technology.

First set-up while cycling

Here are some other shots with live stock

New shots coming soon!

Talk to darkangel8 here on this board. He sells them and I think they are cheaper then maximod.com. When you think about the cost of the kit verus buying a Tunze pump they are not that expensive. The modded move pumps move TONS of water.

My understanding some pumps don't like to be stopped and started abruptly (seios). Some wave makers have soft start and stop to get around this. They ramp the voltage up and down rather then shutting it on and off. I know maxijets can be run or a wave maker. I think some off the tunze can also. Please some one chime in if I am wrong.

IMO using a phosban reactor to hold the carbon and do away with the sponge is a safer way to filter the water. With that much flow the sponge will clog in a hurry and dump water on your floor. I learned this the hard way. You might try running the water through a filter sock before it enters the sump.

We have some and could pull a little out for you. We just pruned, so the piece would be kind of small, but it grows like crazy in our tank. In a couple of weeks I am sure there will be some more substantial pieces. Just PM me and let me know what you want to do.

Our yellow clown goby that we just put in the tank has ich. We have a quarantine tank(that we didn't use, fantastic). What should we do? I have read it could be caused by stress, but I do not want to risk the health of the other fish.

It is a possiblility that the other macro in the tank is exporting the nutrients before they get to the cheato. The water is good and the horses are happy so we think we will just wait and see. thank you

River city aquariums has good rock and it is modestly priced. The absolute cheapest is at wolf reef in San Antonio.

Bending is pretty easy. I use a heat gun and patience. If you bend to quickly it will break. Trust me. I broke a perfectly good over flow box in half. Heat it up so hot it almost bends it's self. The trick is getting the bend straight. Using a piece of wood on the top and on the bottom of the acrylic works well. It becomes kind of a "break" and the bend happens almost effortlessly.

Are these guys really the aptasia killers we have all been looking for?

http://www.saltyunderground.com/faq.htm#q1

Has anyone tried them out?