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I use a hamster bottle gravity-fed ATO on my pico. Works just fine, unfortunately the bottle is so small I have to fill it twice a week but other than that it's pain-free!

Brilliant, been needing one for my pico on my desk at work. Do you just put the end of the valve at the water level?

No valve, just tubing (1/2"?) running from the end of the nozzle to the water line in the tank. I was able to yank the metal piece with the ball out of the cap using a pair of pliers, then mounted the tubing onto the cap where the metal piece used to protrude. The tubing hangs down to meet the water line in the tank. The whole thing is mounted to the wall using the cage from the hamster bottle and a couple of eyelet screws.

I use a hamster bottle gravity-fed ATO on my pico. Works just fine, unfortunately the bottle is so small I have to fill it twice a week but other than that it's pain-free!

Did you get it from Aquatek? That might be like the one I have in my pico from them. Kind of brownish and fuzzy. Seems to do okay as long as I feed the tank adequately and don't let detritus accumulate on its skin.

Sunday, Feb. 16 is ideal for me.

RChavez never used PCs :-) it was T5s, but he did keep SPS just fine in a 20g with a Wavepoint 4-bulb T5 fixture.

Shoot, I converted Alk to Calc in my mind... sorry about that...

Ooooo, get that all up. 180 is looooooowww.

I agree with Timfish, that looks like brown jelly and needs to go ASAP. And finally, does sound like too much light. Sorry to be negative nancy over here...

Deepest sympathies on the passing of your father!

I do lots of construction for a living and most of the time waiting on all the permits can get rediculous. You will go broke waiting on them. If you can get away with it why not do it? I've killed a lot of fish and I have never had a tank bigger than 65g, I bet they have a whole bunch of them. Hope we get to do a back stage tour! If your Gona bash them or talk negatively about them you should wait for them to open and give an honest opinion rather than echo bad rumors and reviews.

I agree, anything less is just cheap talk! One has the right to speculate in this country all they want, but that don't make it right!!!!

If they screw this up then I would be the first one on the band wagon to shut them down. But they too have the right to give it a try. Noone knows the circumstances of how they got into trouble with permits or lack of them. Could have been honest mistakes who knows. And ignorance of the law does not make it right so plea deals are done. OK But that doesn't giver us a right to try their morals in a court of opinion on the internet! Just simmer down! Simmer down!

You can go first...

Pertness aside, any teacher can tell you that yelling at those who've already raised their voices will just lead to a sore throat.

(And yes, I'm posting from my district convocation.)

Band gets in the way of everything... sigh.

My cat managed to jump into the tank tonight. (She was standing on my shoulder as I was sitting at the table nearby.) She was out before I could even react and never got fully submerged, but still, it was quite the excitement for the evening...

The tank seems to be fine and none the worse for its unexpected visitor. The kitty spent a little time curled up in my lap, recovering her dignity.

Any other tales of feline (or other animal) intrusions into other folks' tanks?

I can't help but think of the old saying, where there's smoke there's usually a fire. Regardless of whether every little thing we've heard about these guys is true - there sure does seem to be a lot of smoke surrounding the Austin Aquarium owners and their animal husbandry.

+1 mag.

Also, most people in the RC LPS forum think that meaty corals like brains, scolys and acans do best with direct feeding on a regular basis. Your nitrates are high enough that none of your coral should be starving, but in my limited experience feeding is key when you're trying to help those corals recover. It takes not too long to do damage to a brain and it takes them awhile to rebound. I think moving them out of direct light was good; get your Mag in range and start feeding them, then just be patient.

There's a really cool thread on RC in the LPS forum called "Rescue Corals." Gives you a lot of hope for corals being able to rebound. (In my case, a little too much hope sometimes...)

You have some pretty nice livestock to not own a refractometer. I think you can get them for around $40 on eBay.

I would also vote for moving all the fish out and letting the tank lie fallow. Water chemistry doesn't have anything to do with fish disease; poor water chemistry will affect your corals, but fish are pretty resilient even to drastic changes in salinity as long as the change is gradual. If you had a contaminant in the tank that could be picked up by a PolyPad, it seems like you'd be seeing coral and invert problems too - any losses there?

I'd like to get in on the order, I need about $65 worth of stuff. Don't need any GFO thugh. Can someone PM me if this gets worked out? I always forget to check back in the thread.

Oooo, LPS purge? Hook a sister up!!

I'm interested but can't make it down south till Saturday.

Soft coral? Massive free floating xenia?

The 9002 will def not fit in a BC14. Ditto skip the skimmer.

*raises hand*

I try to wait for red lights....

This is normal; the pump will always run on startup. And yes, you should continue to turn it off during water changes.

Whew. I was holding my breath till that last line. Did you lose any of your breeding pairs? Does insurance cover this sort of thing when you're in the breeding business?

Don't see any prices?

Head over to the LPS forum on RC... I think I saw a thread on this there awhile back, sorry I don't have time at the moment to find it for you...