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Okay, all you smart reefers. I have been asked to help with a friends tank, and while I know some things, I wanted to get some advice from the experts. She has some major water issues, and I need to come in and make everything better, and she wants to upgrade her lighting and be able to have...

I would go for whichever is cheapest! I know up north it costs load for your tags...here in FL, its $50, and of course you have to donate $25 to get the nifty reef plate! :D

Me.. 26 years old... Spending my days on private jets and Scuba diving. Also raise baby parrots and do wildlife drawings.....drinking rum and dreaming of the islands. I am a typical Islomainiac... In a Gulfstream IIB Another in a GIIB. Playing in Key Largo..

Gas 'n Generatin' some tricity :) Gas: Dont know if this law was passed in other states boardering our lovely coasts, but in FL now, we have a law that a gas station is required now to have generators on site capable of running the pumps in the event of a power outage do to acts of God. So...

I am sure I am not the only person on this forum that has to deal with Hurricanes. Whats the best suggestion for dealing with a minimum of a 2 day power outage due to a hurricane? I thought I had heard of someone discussing the use of a computer back up type battery. I looked online for...

Not a carnation coral I guess he is a colt, just the photos I have seen dont look quite like him. I never asked the LFS what he was.... He has a hard base, attached to a small piece of rock. Looks like a tree almost, with just one thick stalk for a base, then all the little arms are off of...

Hehehe...VERY funny Well....he's nice and ERECT now. Standing upright and looks good. I was not aware that these corals do that....He normally is always upright and polyps out and hes happy. So when he (I say he....perhaps that comes for a subconcious though about the limp thing) was closed up...

My colt coral (closest thing I can find that looks like this guy, or it is some type of leather) has gone LIMP. He has been doing wonderful....growing so big, I actually was going to frag him this week. I did have him in the sand bed, and moved him about 3 weeks ago up top into some rockwork...

You know, I have always thought I wonder if you could......take your inground pool, and make it a big saltwater tank? I was in Maui, Hawaii about 1.5 weeks ago, and at one of the hotels, they had a huge saltwater pond winding around a outdoor restaurant. At first I thought, it would have Koi...

GSP back open GSP is back open today.....a few polyps started opening last night, but other than that this is the first time I have ever experienced it not coming out! I thought I was losing the whole lot. What was weird, is my hermits never get on my corals, and NEVER the GSP. They were all...

Has anyone living in an area like South FL, ever try, or ever HEARD of, doing an outdoor tank, using natural sunlight for light? I was reading in a book the other day, and they had several natural light outdoor saltwater tanks. I was wondering if you guys think this could be done or not?

I have a big patch of star polyps that about half the colony was open yesterday, and now today, the main group is not open at all, remaining tightly closed. I have a smaller patch on the other side of the tank that are open well and normally. All other corals doing very well. Any ideas...

I recently aquired a beautiful chunk of Blue Sponge. It is a very pretty blue purple color, and it shaped very neat with holes and arches and such. It was attached to a small rock, but as I was trying to figure out where to stick him, the rock came off. Now I just sorta lightly wedged him in...

Florida Keys Diving in the Keys is about the best diving your going to do in North America, for warm water fish. What reef were you at? Once you get your certifications, and perhaps an advanced rating, I would recommend the Speigel Grove, and the Duane. Both are located in the Key Largo...

Sticky stuff What I did was to take vinegar and let it sit on the sticky stuff, and then scrape it off the glass with a razor blade carefully. I have also used Windex to dissolve the sticky stuff. Since you dont have anything in the tank yet, even water, as long as your rinse well, and you...

Breakout for me too! I have a major outbreak of it in my tank also....the grape kind and the flat kind. The major rock I bought had it growing on it, and now it has really exploded. I cannot really get rid of the rock, because almost all my corals are growing on it also. I did not realize it...

I just was given a 3 gallon Eclipse tank, and was wondering about the possibilty of making it a small frag tank, so that I can pull frags off the corals and put them in that tank to grow larger. Can this be done using this type of tank? What would you recommend to have in the tank (live sand...

Fission Skimmer I had (still do..if anyone wants to buy it cheap..used it for 2 weeks) a Fission Skimmer. Still have the box and instructions. I placed mine in the middle compartment on my Nanocube 24dx. You may like the skimmer, but I felt it was extremely cheap for the $40 I paid after...

Okay..this may be a stupid question, but I need to ask. I don't think I really paid too much attention to the water levels in the back filtration compartments of my NanoCube 24DX. I had a Fission skimmer in, that I had taken out (JUNK by the way), and did my sponge cleanings and all, but when I...

Perhaps some of you have seen, I JUST posted pics last night of my tank, and said all has been going well...until NOW. The cooling fans have stopped working. Normally they run constantly on the tank anytime the lights are running, except for when the LED moonlights are on at night...