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WOW! I didn't expect it to work so fast! I guess now we'll have to find a way to plumb it to keep it on there all the time, instead of just hanging it off the side! W00t! :D Congrats... can't wait to see it again.

*sigh* In a word.... NO. What you're planning is not gonna work. Powder blue = ich factory... and your tank is too small Yellow tang.... you might be able to get away with one, but they don't like being in pairs Mixing two sets of clowns might not be a good idea because you end up with the...

If you're wanting a school of damsels..... I'd say look at chromis instead. Check out the blue-green reef chromis. They look like damsels, but without the evil. ;) http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=115 And I'd steer clear of powder blue tangs too. The other day I was...

This has been said many times before, and I'm pretty sure Navarre will back me up on this. Don't get an anemone. They need massive amounts of light, perfect water conditions, and are still prone to just get up and wander your tank in search of a more suitable area. They're NOT for beginners...

1 US Gallon = 8.35 lbs + weight of the tank... about 20-25lbs for a 20g glass tank + weight of gravel/sand/rock/decoration + weight of hood - weight of water displaced As a rough estimate, you're looking at a little over 200lbs for a 20g tank probably, assuming you fill it up with about 20-30lb...

You DO realize that clown triggers are some of the most aggressive aquarium fish out there, right? Putting one in a 75g with other fish is a bad idea. Well, putting one in a 75g PERIOD is a bad idea... but look beyond that for a second. The tangs have some small chance of taking care of...

Coralife setups come ready for Saltwater with the 10,000k + Actinic lights.... or for freshwater with 6700k lights. I didn't realize the exchange rate is as bad as it is, but I guess $350 Canadian sounds about right for the Coralife. Believe me when I say that a 4bulb 260watt Coralife PC rig...

The liquid that you use to power lawnmowers, cars, etc ;) Silly Brits and your silly terms. BAH.... separated by a common language ;) But yes, a 5 gallon "petrol" can is perfect for it.. and it's what I use. Big enough to hold enough water for doing a decent water change, yet managable...

If you can't afford an RO filter, but want RO water.... ask your LFS. Most stores in this area sell RO/DI water for about $.25 - .30 per gallon. We saltwater owners that are too cheap for our own RO unit love it that way :) I'm sure over on your side of the Atlantic, fish stores do that...

$350 for the Coralife is highway robbery. I've been looking at probably the same strip, but can't really afford it right now. It's a 4x65w Coralife power compact strip for anywhere between $200-220. The cheapest place I've seen it is Hellolights.com. Is this the product you're talking about...

Well first off, the Sea Horse and clown fish won't mix. Clowns are too fast and too rowdy for the sea horse. Sea horses want light movement and a very very calm environment. My clowns are constantly darting about playing, or in search of food. They only seem to stay still when it's night and...

Alright Navarre, after asking for pictures you disappeared from IRC, so here we go :) I took a bit more wide angle picture to show off some of my other corals that are near it, and show how much room I've allowed for sweepers at night. Under normal 10,000k + Actinic lighting Under Actinics only

A caution to that. If you are ever considering doing a saltwater tank or even keeping any freshwater inverts like amano shrimp or ghost shrimp, DO NOT use copper. Copper lingers in the tank in the seals and such, and is still toxic long after you have dosed it. Also if you dose with copper...

I run the skimmer attachment on my 204 on my little 5g saltwater tank, and my dad runs two on his 304s on his 75g planted freshwater. They're nice because they break up that gunk that sometimes forms on the surface of the water, but with a planted tank, they don't create enough surface...

What kind of salt?

Who would tell you to get turbo snails for a FW tank? I have a feeling they're gonna die before you can get them back to the store if you're keeping them in FW, regardless of any air pump or lettuce. If you're looking for snails to eat algae in FW, you need to look for apple snails.

Yeah, looks like a feather duster to me. You're lucky to have one with such great color. I saw a blackish blue one in my tank, but it's on the top back side of a rock, so you have to really be looking to see it :(

:crazy: :blink: That's like $17 or so.... for ALGAE?! Good god almighty man, that place is out of their minds. The store down the street from me sold me a bit of caulerpa for $1. I put it in my makeshift refugium with a light on it for only about 13 hours a day, and in a month or so it has...

Lobster: You have a camera that can take pictures in RAW format? These are some I took at the LFS of his coral frag tank under just the VHO Actinic 03 lights, with all the halides and shop lights turned off. Take the picture in RAW format, then go into Photoshop or the RAW editor that your...

Aiptasia and mojano are pests, but not poisonous. For the most part, anything that's poisonous will be something you put in there yourself. Zoanthids, most blennies, lionfish, etc....

Dunno if that's the truth or not, but I have noticed that my clowns have gone from a more subdued orange when I bought them to BRIGHT orange now. Their stripes are becoming a lot more pronounced too, and getting a bit of black banding at the edges. They're tank raised with odd stripes, but...

I wouldn't tell people not to use yeast.... just to be careful with it. Don't overfill the bottle.... Use a check valve.... Make sure the bottle can't turn over where the stuff will come up into the aquarium Use a second empty bottle inline between the reactor and the tank to catch any bad...

Well don't ever buy anything other than guppies and bettas, because you can never be certain where your fish come from. Lots of fish of many different species are still wild caught, and we would hate for you to deprive them of their lovely pond/lake/river/ocean. Those kuhli loaches in your...

This one goes beyond what navarre believed and says 6" max size for domino damsels: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=102 Hear me now and believe me later.... damsels get to be a GIANT pain in the butt. They start off cute and nice, but over time (and that time can be...

HOB power filters get stuck all the time. Quickest thing to try is pull the tube out, pull the impeller mechanism out, and rinse it off. Make sure it's not gummed up with algae or anything. Sometimes, even after doing that, I've had to unplug and plug mine in a few times to get them to start...

Having seen those little hang-in-tank Whisper filters, and having seen how little room there is in a Mini-Bow 2.5 to begin with.... I'd say yeah, go get a proper HOB filter like an Aquaclear, or the Whisper I posted up above.

Wait, I think I just answered my own question. Did your mini-bow come with one of those crappy filters that hangs inside the tank and takes up more of what little space they already have? I've seen those in the Minibow tanks my mother bought. My minibow came with a normal hang on back power...

Why can't you just double wrap the rubber band on the intake tube?

If you're a DIY type of guy, you can try http://www.ahsupply.com . They sell kits with everything you need.... ballast, reflector, wiring hardware, etc. Just remember to get a bulb of the right spectrum... that's not included in their kits.

Anthias are really hard to get a straight answer on, actually. I've heard different stories about them. One store says they're social fish and need to be kept in a small school. Another store says they're social fish, but their social structure isn't very well understood, so they're better...

That bug.... catch it and get rid of it NOW!!!! I had one of those in my tank one time that came in on some plants, and I didn't find it until after I had noticed some fish missing. I asked around on here and found out it's a dragonfly nymph. They're predators that usually eat mosquito eggs...

The only help I can give you is to take all those fish back. The puffer, the lion, and the tang are probably all too big for that tank by themselves. Plus, in the presence of the lionfish and puffer, we shall simply refer to the clownfish, royal gramma (the purple/yellow fish), and the damsels...

Those are cool, Paul. Never seen any tetras quite like that over here. Nice find!

UV filters are sold with pond equipment because they pass water by a UV light, killing any free floating little baddies in the water.... bacteria, parasites, hydra, algae, etc. It's a way to rid yourself of free-floating ich in a tank... or clean up all the algae in a pond. Beyond that...

Very quick question.... what kind of tests are you using? If you're using strip tests, toss them in the trash.... that's where they belong. They always seem to cross contaminate each other and that's part of the reason you'll never see 0. And when you said you had the LFS read them, do you...

You think catching something in a planted tank is hard.... try catching a wrasse or a damsel in a reef tank!

Lateral is right... you'll find out soon just what you don't want to know about hex aquariums ;) As for sizes.... from All-Glass Aquarium's webpage. 10 Hexagon 14x12x18 20 Hexagon 18x16x20 35 Hexagon 23x20x24 The only way a hex or cube tank like an Oceanic 30 is really nice is if you...

Can I make a small addition to your plans? Punch small holes in the bottle so that water can still circulate through it. I made a small trap like that to catch the kuhli loaches I had to transfer them out of my big tank, left it for a few hours with just a bottle cut off and inverted... and...

Everybody says those are crap and produce a lot of unneccesary backpressure on your pumps and such. Personally, I got one of the Hydor rotating nozzles for a powerhead, as recommended by Navarren and Aquascaper, and I LOVE it.

Bubble algae.... remove it VERY gently from the tank without popping it. It's the easy one to get rid of. Aiptasia... you have options, but none work very well. A) natural predation.... either a peppermint shrimp or copper banded butterfly fish. The copperband will eat other polyps though...