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do you have to have frags to attend? do people trade other things etc or this a coral people only thing?

i dont really have some of those options. the light i use is actually the desk light built into the desk here in the dorm. so it is a switch. i have nothing to regulate it with other than myself. so i can leave it on or off. evaporation is minimal. very very very very little. ok so i definantly need to buy a new bubbler. well then i guess ill leave the lights off but the window open. ambient room light will have to suffice for 3 days. how bad could a tank turn in three days. i dont feed it or anything yet. just turn light on and off. thanks for the advice

question on the ph swings etc on tanks. the light on or off has effect on growth ph and stimuli on a tank correct? i will be gone for labor day weekend. so im thinking about leaving the light on for the whole time. i believe it will spur the growth of the macro algae, production of pod population and hopefull growth of coraline. also in the buckets i have green water with pods trying to culture them. i believe if i leave the lights it will be easier or more productive on the system. right now the tank is bare, just some live rock plants. and only thing i have seen come out of the rock are a few pods. thiink it be better to leave lights on or leave em off?

ooh! right. yea no im talkiing about the colored sand you buy from petsmart etc that is called calci sand etc. they are in the lizard section of the store. its nothing but reef sand blasted with reallly hot food dye. and supposedly the salt water disloves the dye off the sand. not that food dye sounds like super harmfull but still... altho i believe that brand uses the same method so why one is safe the other isnt i dont know. the lizard stuff may of not been tested so the company just tells people dont try it. heavens if only i understood business.

i appriciate the advice. i am an active member on seahorse.org. love it. have to admit it is a lot more fun here knowing the post do not come very far away.

the white and black sand mix i am told actually is a new and rather athetically pleasing look. or if the sand bed is shallow you could just pile the black on top of the white and have a deep sand bed, just be carful not to mix it. Entropy is right, black sand does get ugly. i had black sand in a tank and how i dont know but it got dirty looking. it goes against logic, we usually buy black so it doesnt show dirt but the black sand turns grey dusty etc. Headless donkey how do you have blue sand?? are you using that colored sand sold for reptiles?? if so i was told by the company that is not tank safe, least not in salt water. the dyes leech out. it isnt anything more than food dye but still.. if you have another source please share, i have never seen colored sand tank safe. I would love to set one of those up!

i agree with shallow beds. if you have stuff sitting on top of the sand then how deep it is doesnt matter. you have filters to clean your water. now if you plan to put in macros or seagrass then look into a deeper sand bed. i used to have a deep sand bed and it killed my seahorse herd when the sand got stirred up.

you can get a long handled scraper from petsmart for about 4$ but honestly i would give up on trying to keep the filter tubes clean. IME those grow the stuff faster than anything and its a losing battle, save your elbow grease.

just finished putting up a dwarf seahorse tank with sand lights and filters. before i put in ponies does anyone have any sort of macro red green or brown they are about to throw out or extra live rock? i have no problem driving 60 miles for it. im in san marcos i do have some cash i am more than willing to pay. i just dont like what they sell at the local stores, it looks so unalive..

mabye i should elaborate. the tower speakers, in the left one a reciever is built in. and the right rear output is not functioning. the speaker works. noise comes out of all speakers in the center and rear left slots but not the right rear slot so what i was trying out was putting the center 120w in the back to see if that made a difference and i think these little 60w just dont hack it as a rear thing. what i was going to look at is make the left rear the center back. so mabye try to find a powerful speaker and make it rear... idk. because i think the actuall reciever is bad and those cant change.

i have a sony sava 500 i picked up. and somehow the rear right speaker no longer works. so only the left rear speaker functions. sony says i need service, flat 140$ plus anything they charge me they think is wrong. and to get it back i have to pay MORE $$. will when watching movies work if i just have that one rear speaker or will it make the sound feel off set? can i put it in the back and upgrade the speaker to something a little more powerful?

do you know how much that cools the tank? like what would it be without the fans?

try an ice probe. i know you dont want to spend a ton of $. but ive seen em as cheap as 70$. its a small chiler that will cool a small tank a few degree. i need to buy one personally.

that is awsome beyond awsome. i thought i would never be able to keep em. is there places in austin to get these??

i thought those quickly outgrow a ten gal. plus the clubber mantis will crack the thinner glass of a ten.

ive kept 5 gal for a month without problem. but it was in a bucket with a lid kept in the closet. so air tight in a cool place. i just stirred it up before useing it and i never noticed any spike or harm. but i am not a big coral person so i couldnt say past it didnt hurt my seahorses.

does that count when purchasing coralife because it has free tee shirts?

i may be slightly confused. why is floss so bad? just so i get this right because it mechanically filters out stuff that stuff rots and as it rots it adds nitrates?? but isnt that slightly to be expected? if you dont use floss how else do you mechanically filter the water? can there be any way expected to filter the water without the downside of the caught stuff rotting? but i love the idea of a hob as a mini refuge. do you actually use this or this just an idea? because many or most small hob have high flow rates for the small space, and that would not be a bad thing? mabye it would be great because the bacteria is well oxygenated. but cant there be too strong? i really want to try this. i have so many penguin filters that i have nothing to do with and i cant stand buying those overpriced replacements.

if you want seahorses check out seahorse.org it is the best source to check out that area of intrest. in a ten gallon you are restricted to dwarf seahorses that require live food. enriched brine. my question is "are there corals that will do well in such a small tank with those cheapo lights?

thank you so much. i will contact quickly tonight if possible. i have to get to petsmart on time today. sadly i am not the best on guessing how the walmart traffic is going to dely me getting to work... thank you again!

hey yall. im new to this site. i can not believe there is a deal like this on the net just for saltwater enthusiast. this is soooo much fun i love it. AND yall have meetings?? this is just too good to be true! im in south austin and i am setting up a salt tank, little ten gal for my college dorm. but i am trying to cycle it in time before i move in. is it possible i might be able to bum someone's old nasty throw away water? anyone doing a water change soon? that nasty stuff would seriously kick start the matruation of my Fluidized Bed Filter. Dont worry about delivery, i drive daily as far north as downtown and i would love if i could bring a bucket by and bum some nasty water.