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I have a 2-1/2 year old 75 GPD 5 stage Air Water Ice system that has performed great up until now. I have replaced the cartridges a couple of times, most recently about 3 months ago. The last couple of months, the output has dropped to almost nothing. (think...

OK, so maybe the new Chromis were just not a healthy lot. Maybe that is why one disapperaed each night for 4 straight nights. Wrong.... Tonight I saw Sally Light Foot eating the remains of my (formally)perfectly healthy and happy medium sized Yellow Tang.:(:( I've tried trapping it a while...

My wife says the cat and two kids have fleas. She wants to bomb the house, I very wary, anybody have any input ? Thanks, Rick

My 150g tank is about four months post cycle now, and everything is happy and healthly. For the last month or so, I have had to constatntly add carbonate to keep my Alk up at 8 dKh. All other paramneters seem good and steady, even calcium (400+), probably due to once a week 10% water changes...

Does anyone have a trap I can borrow? I have a Sally Lightfoot crab I want to remove. I can pick up at today's meeting and return to your location/home after use?!? Thanks, Rick M. PS: You can have the Sally if you like...:D

Well, my zoas are continuing their slow decline. Over the course of several weeks they have been slowly "disappearing", and I sometiomes see them melting away. I've heard of peroxide dips, to eradicate some small creature that may be eating the zoas. All my parameters seem fine, although I...

Has anyone ever done a study, scientific or not, on the intelligence of certain fish species? I've had a hippo tang and a cleaner shrimp for about a month each. The hippo never, I mean never, gave the cleaner shrimp even a 2nd look. In the mean time the cleaner shrimp tried half heartedly...

I need some advice, I am pretty sure my new Naso Tang has died, it was very bad off Christmas night, and I have not seen him/her since. If it has died, do I have to go find it and remove the carcas for water quality issues? The tang is/was about 3-4" long, my tank is a 150 gallon RR AGA with...

I need to return a book I've had for several months. I have been unable to make the last several meetings, and want to ship it back. Does anyone know where I should send it? Thanks, Rick M

I just did my "wet" test on my new set up and everything held, except for the bulkhead fitting on my acrylic sump. It is on the pump intake and I can't get it to stop dribbling. I heard some people use silicone lube on the rubber gasket ? Can / should I use some aquarium silicone around...

Has anyone made a translucent background for their reef tank? I saw pictures and read about them in Volume 3 of The Reef Aqurium (Delbeck & Sprung). It looks like you take a piece of blue translucent acylic along with a white piece (to diffuse the light), and somehow light it from behind or...

I am in the process of plumbing my basement sump for my 150g display. I will have a 3/4" pvc pipe from a pair of 20g tanks, one with straight RO/DI water for top off, the other with salt mixed in for water changes. My question is, where in the sump should this water drain into? I was...

All: I have decided to buy a Gen-X Mak4 to pump the water from my basement sump to the 150gallon AGA RR upstairs. I will be using flexible PVC for the "up and down" piping. My question, the Gen-X has a 3/4" outlet, should I order 3/4" flex PVC, or should I use a bushing or adapter up to...

I've been reading about the advantages of quaratining your fish before putting them in the main tank. My question is, how do you set the QT up? I was thinking of having a little water pumped into a QT from the main sump, and returning it through a UV Sterilizer..... How do other people do...

I am looking to buy an external pump for my new 150 g reef set up. The tank overflows (2) are rated about 1200 gph total, so I need a pump that can pump about that amount, but with about 10 feet of head. I am concerned about power consumption, so I do not want to buy a monster then just choke...

I've always heard you Have To Have Metal Halide lighting to keep clams. Has anyone tried / suceeded / failed with keeping clams under a t-5 set up? Thanks, Rick M