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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

just sitting around and thinking and i thought hey ask the wisest people i know! do yall think youth is wasted on the young? how do the youth waste thier youth? Or is that just a saying from old grumpy men.

in your tank is water splashing? like a lot of air getting mixed into it? like a hose above surface or at surface sucking air in? that could be a good source to make the foam. do you have pics?

foam? like the white foam stuff you see at the ocean? that sounds like skimmer scum. check that your skimmer isnt full and overflowing the gunk back to the tank. or if something died the stuff could be rotting away and is catching somethin in your tank and foaming up. how thick is it? how bic is it? it could be natural foam forming. the foam is protiens that stick to the surface of bubbles, if your tank has a lot of flow it could be like a little mini skimmer action. so if it is right on the corner or somthing of the overflow then that might be it as well. that is as natural, just from funny flow. same affect when you see ocean waves all foamy, its because the turbulance is causing it.

no not really. its more likely its all the dust. the rock if you dont wash it first will have all sorts of dust and fine layer on the surface may break off. basically the rock is curing in a way. give it time it will clear up. but be carful, that rock from outside may have all sorts of chemicals on it. pesticides poisons etc from the yard...

YES YES YES! i bought some from lows and i lost the reciept. ill gladly sell cheaper if i could get something to pay off that bill. (paper work is not my strongsuit...)

im selling it all in pieces. if someone wants just LR or the heater or the filter or the macro or whatever just please PM me. if im lucky i can have it all corordinated and rid of by the 10th.

are you looking for rubble or a big piece?

lookslike live rock with mushrooms? are you looking at somethin in particular?

my dad is a hypnotherapyst. my word he will not stop at the miracle cure it is. people stop smoking, pains going away, depression etc. he says yes you can get over it with hypnotherapy... good luck!

but arnt some fish going to not be comfortable without some sort of fine substrate? or is that only a few?

a fingers length (middle) about 3 inches? it depends if you are counting the tail curled which is most of the time or uncurled.. one is black with yellow stripes, the other is black with white stripes.

there is black sand. and im sure you could find black rocks.

i go back to school on the fourth. its getting to the point where they need a home. it would end up as a OBO.

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/diy/3958...tal-halide.html this is the guide i found on the subject. thanks for pointing out the major flaw. but honestly i do believe there is always another way. trouble is just figureing it out.

the bubls are 50$ a 10$ fixture. right there thats dirt cheap comparably. ballast? i believe already the deal works as is? i guess i dont understand why a new ballast is required. the utility light you can plug in and light comes out. why if you replace the light is the balast needed? mabye i dont get how the ballast works.

i plan to make my own stand for the next tank i am goign to drag down to my dorm room. cinderblocks and wood. what i am not sure is do i need to use 4x4 or 2x4. cinderblocks as legs, then wood across the top for tank to sit on. i know i have to keep it real level. its a 30 gal long. 36". so its not a huge amount of water or length. but i do NOT want 2x4 to snap and crash. am i being over paranoid by thinking i have to use 4x4?

now i know metal halides are the lights you want. they are super expensive but the power they put out is crazy. the fixtures on the petwebsites are crazy expensive. i thought there must be a way around it. i saw at walmart they sell utility work flood lights for 10$. its a metal halide light, 500watts. will this not work?? i mean cut off the legs and handles and you have a bright orange metal halide light! and sure i bet the bulb is the wrong spectrum or what not but that can be replaced. and that surely must cost less than 200$ if so then right there its a metal halide light for a fraction of the cost. sure it doesnt have a fish brand maker but does that matter? i must be missing something could it really be that easy?

i still have two ponies. H comes: tiger tailed seahorse. very cute trained on frozen food. anyone interested in horses?

just to clarify, that was because i was watching lost. i have now watched nearly 3 seasons in 10 days. Has anyone done planted tanks? i have a 30 gal long and i am looking for lights, substrate, co2 bottle, regulator, needle valve, etc. planted tank equipment.

does anyone ever doen planted tanks and no longer? co2 bottle, regulators, needle valves, selonoids, ph meters, or even extra lights? i have a 30 gal long that i could use some light on.

if anyone wants pieces liek rock or filters etc i just need to reak it down.

i hsould rewrite this. now that its not 2 in the morning. 30 gal tank with 30 gal sump. 2 H. comes seahorses Assorted Corals ~70 lbs LR ~20 lbs LS Macro Algee 6 Mangrove Plants Equipment -Light -Filters -Skimmer -Heater -Food i even have all the buckets needed to move everything in one load the whole thing right here askin 350

I realize it is not the time in my life to really be able to keep healthy salt tanks. just too unstable. moving etc. so in the best intrest of my horses i have to give them up. if i dont have ponies i dont have a reason for salt... here is what i have. 2 female H. Comes horses, if you know anything about seahorses, tiger tails are somewhat difficult to come by. assortment of corals, ok honestly i only took the corals because it was kinda pretty. what i know i have is xenia, zoo, a rock that looks like it has pinkish "yellow star polyp" but they reced into this pink mass that grows on the rocks. some wierd purple thing that sticks out green 5 blade thingies. yea im ganna figure out exactly what i have. oh and some kenya tree coral. i have a pep in there, a handfull of snails and hermits. handfull of dragons breath algee, and a bunch of others that i dont know what they are technically called. mabye 60 lbs of lr? i know it fills nearly 2 5 gal buckets. there is an oyster on one of the rocks. the tank is 2 30 gal in an over under, the bottom is a sump with a little clown in it. i have a skimmer that comes with it. and half a dozen mangrove trees. im selling the whole deal. even the buckets to fill the tank with. the only thing i cant sell is the filter. but i have others that i will give instead, some 30 gal HoB. i know its not great for sump but its not that much to diy... drill a hole then get a return pump. the system runs really clean and has been set up for some time. and as far as the lights i somehow left those in the dorm so the soonest i can get those to you is on the week of the fourth. so if you dont mind waiting a little bit. ill deliver those myself as far as georgetown afterward, save you the inconvience.. im not sure how much to ask honestly. but it is tank, substrate, corals, plants, fish, filters, skimmer, heater, buckets to move, lights, and stand, background... the whole thing. me it cost to put together around 700, so i really dont know what is fair and i dont now how to put a price on my ponies... i know yall are fair people and if this sounds intereseting to you pm me or call 512 809 2348. the only warning i have is that they are delicate fish and really are not recomended to have any tankmates or wild fish in the system dispite what LFS will tell you. they are the slowet moving fish in the ocean and even the most "docile" of fish quickly can become as terrorizing as damsels. however they do eat frozen food so a bit of mysis shrimp is all these little girls take. if you have never tried or wanted to try seahorses here they are.

he is doing just fine. eating well. still not used to the set up too much but he hasnt eally been anyplace stable for long so i understand