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im going to guess a freshwater dip for a short time?

does everyone quarantine? feel it is 100% nessesary? do you QT the first fish you add to a tank or only the later additions? how long do yall QT? read the article in the magazine it seemed worth a little discussion. personally i never have bothered with it, but i dont tend to add fish but once. it just seemed silly to QT fish from a tank that only has rock in it. i know its live rock but i just dont associate it with sick rock...

anyone ever use or heard of frozen omega 1 mysis shrimp? i thought they only did freeze dried but they supposedly have frozen. i ihave never used it. annyone have experience with it?

how would someone go about and making a moonlight? I know most of the time it is just a blue LED but i am hesitant to just add lights. it seems so much science is put into the daylight bulbs in terms of spectrums, Kelvin, etc. thus moonlight can not be so simple as just an LED. moonlight must have a specific spectrum and intensity, to recreate that naturally has to be somewhat worth a bit of research. has anyone done this research or have a good idea? ive tried researching but the internet has gen a huge array of spectrums and intensities. i have also heard a lot about using red light. but i dont believe that fish cant see red light. if that were so then it seems ridiculous there is so much red color in fish in the sea...

first one is not in english.second looks really nice. i would try it.

so the tank is set up but it turns out there is a lot of noise from the bulkhead. did i set it up wrong? did i miss some part of this? hopefully the picture says enough. but just in ase. there is a T on the outside, a barb fitting to a 3\4" vinyl tube the top ive tried open or with another barb fitting on the top. i thought by leaving an opening at the top it would work. but air is still getting sucked down the tube. is it the vynal tube? nothing much i can think of.

a company that makes awards, crt awards. they cut glass etc with lasers, engraving and all that. he zipped rigt through the acrylic in about 45 seconds. perfect smooth hole.

wow i have class in 40 min but i have to put this up. it took all night but this tank is running COMPLETELY! it was a diy nightmare but macguyver would be pround. ill try to give a quick run down of these pictures 10 gal tank sitting on a pile of wood to make it taller. wood slats on top because i dont have glass or plastic hood 50 gal hang on back trickle filter. internal ovverflow box, WAY too big. thats pantyhose on it to keep snails out. the bulkhead was put into the back of the trickle filter. i must add it took a laser to cut that acrylic, no one with a drill (commercial) would cut it for me... drains to a 16$ rubbermaid from walmart. But because it is so weak of structure that is the footboard to the extra bed (what i will do when i get a roommate i have no clue). that foot board is tied around the rubber maid with shoestring that i weaved together to make rope. i had lots of shoestring and boy scouts... that is a coralife light that is almost a foot too long for the refugium the return pump is a rena xp2 (if anyone is shopping for a filter DO NOT BUY! WORST filter EVER!) it is t-valved so the return is not so strong. its so smooth, lagoon type speed, good for horses. the lights above it are 2 coralife screw in 50\50 bulbs, alright but realy not as strong as i expected, a T-8 20w, and i forgot another t-8 in the car but later today i can add a third light. the trickle filter is filled with bio media, the rena is filled with bio media. i have a skimmer on the back end of the rubbermaid. and after class im going to plug in the fluidized bed filter but fill it with more bio media bioballs instead of sand.. took all night, but its done. only problem is the bulkhead is LOUD. anoying whistleing. but thats not that big of a deal. that can be fixed later im sure with a pvc something.. but its done and if the water quality doest crash then seahorses will be in this weekend! this is all in my dorm room and takes up about a 1\3 of the space. but it works! i do live alone so no roommate to deal with yet..

i found lowes carries pulverized granite, that stuff on the walkway around town lake. im lookin up what granite is chemically but if silicate sands are a bad way to go then it is a cheap alternative. although i was told that the silicate sand is an urban myth, silicates are insoluble in water thus how could a silicate sand influence diatom growth? i dont know, im going to talk to my aquatic science professor later today after class. and i have chem later so they should be able to tell me or at least enough information to narrow down an educated guess. also pool stores carry stuff called zeoblast, its just zeolite, really porus stuff that would be great as a sand bed, except its 30$ for 50lbs. too rich for me but sounds like it would work for an aquarium. too bad in salt water it is useless for absorbing ammonia but if you have fresh water this may be a new filter media, lots of this in a canister or something.. just a side note.

! that is so good to hear! i think im going to order them then. the place im ordering from sells peppermints 4 for 10$. that is almost 3 free compared to the prices here. its worth it just to have em.

this feels silly asking but are they difficult to keep in a new enviornment. i set up a refugium, but i still dont have sand lr in it, just a tub full of water and copepods. i plan to go buy play sand and fill it with that, and i have a bunch of stone at the house i plan to put in it. but no lr. do i have to have lr? or could i just sprinkle some mysis cube over the area and feed em that way for a while before i figure stuff is growing? what do they eat? i see them crawling on rock picking stuff but there really is nothin there that i see.. they seem big for detritus eaters.

so i have an acrylic overflow, i want to put a bulkhead in it. lowes says no drill bit will work on acrylic, only wood or metal.

i looked into the building sand. but i wondered about silicates. i was told by some that if you dont buy sand from a lfs you are buying silicate sand, silicate = diatoms. not that its bad if you have snails?

the time has no meaning. its just a general idea, 100 is just a good number to comprehend. i honestly have no idea what the scale should be. and look at it this way, even if you killed them, as long as there are a dozen or so left more will come. goo luck. i know i hate waiting for htese bugs to grow. SOOOO agrivatingly slow. have fun with the pods!

why would you put foam under a tank?

check stores. call the local stores. also many small stores can speecial order. well i am sure they will. call stores to see if they have it in stock or how much ti would be to get one. they have contacts to all sorts. good luck!

ive been doin aquariums for a while but never corals all that seriously. but in looking into it everyone seems to list their coral species name and a tag, like ora or mast or manc somthin. is that who sold it? does it really matter? idk are there such thing in this trade as brand name? im probably misunderstanding how it woorks. all that matters in the value of a specimen is the species and health right? well that and if it was aquacultured or at the very least harvested well. i dont know it just seems from when i've talked to some people where the coral comes from seems to make a big deal to some people. ?

lazy??? keeping that black sand pretty = not lazy. beautiful

IT is possible. and no it does not look bad, at least i dont think so. especially if you have a canopy, then what you see is about the same as drilled tanks. if you dont want a drilled tank buy a tank then get an overflow box, around 60-90$ at lfs. or you could always make your own, dont recomend it though. but thats me, delicate work like that is worth 60$ than 30$ in supplies and 5 hours of work... same thing to me... back to subject. it does not look bad. put the sump and all that under the tank in the stand. and as far as stuff in the tank all you see is the overflow box usually low profile, and whatever you use as return. the rest, skimmer, heater, uv filter or whatever fanacy device is under your tank. ive done it that way and while from the side if you look behind the tank it looks a mess but easy way to fix that is add a narrow curtain over the back the space between the wall and tank. then you dont notice it at all. drilled tanks are nice, but by no means can you live without it. overflow box down to sump. pump back to tank. the overflow box is basically a device that hangs on the back and does what a hole would do. it will do what you want to do.

thats really cool to hear. sounds like its going well. i believe the life cycle is around 50 days. i think its like ~20 to grow then ~20 to hump. something like that. plus the development of the larva in the eggs. i really am not sure but i think its somethin like that. does anyone know for sure? im sure somewhere on this mess of an internet that should be accessable. but other than that... (ok i apologize now and forever i know i have no concept of how to use the english language or grammer, i am takin some classes on that...) to answer your question about the population; if you look at a population curve its exponential. it starts slow, but once it gets going it curves upward. then the only limits are nutrition, space, well ok there are quite a few factors but you will hit that point where you will seriously notice the exponential curve. if this works ther e should be an example attached. this is just a basic graph of the theory of population, from my old biology text book, so if anyone works for them, credit to your company. is technical footnotes bibliography required? anyway. well you see the graph. it is very very slow to grow. but it hits a major upswing around time 30 and grows Really quickly but then slows down as the population begins to reach the carrying capacity. so give it time and you will hit that population explosion. just let them be. keep the water clean and they will reproduce. i really didnt start to see large burst until the first month and even then it was nothing to get excited about yet.

when was the last time you seriously cleaned it? i know mine overflowed a lot and when i got frustrated i took it apart and found some stuff was half clogged in some of the tubes building pressure. basically more water came in than went out. once i cleaned it out etc it worked beautifully.

does it happen all the time at night, like every night? if it was a one night thing it could be something malfunctioned. water temperature holds more oxygen when cold, so im going to guess it might be more effective when cold? anything on those lines make sense to anyone else?

im not really lookin for a deep sand bed functionality. from what i read mantis shrimps need deep beds to burrow. Figured i could find somthing cheap, not worried about the filtration.

i wannt to put a dsb in my 40 gal refugium. that i figure would be about 60-80 lbs of sand and or crushed coral. lookin at the aquraium store that would be rather expensive. home depot or some quarry must sell a subsitute for cheaper. i have read that not just any sand will do because some will leach all sorts of this or that. anyone know of what to look for?

inverts! dont overlook things just because they dont have tails. ive heard a garden of tube worms, sponges, mantis shrimp, various crabs, ots of cool shrimps out there. im sure mantis shrimp will eventually outgrow a 6. sea cucumbers and personally i think worms can be really neat to see crawling through the substrate.