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How many people give thought to how many plastic shopping bags they throw away in a week? It's hard to get out of the grocery store with a week's worth of food with less than 20 of them, isn't it. Add to that all the individual trips to drug stores, lunch stops, hardware stores, etc. Just...

Anything that looks really bright sitting on top of your tank is by definition blocking light from your corals. The more invisible the screen, the less light it's stealing. Paula (a member here, who I haven't seen on in a while - not sure if she's still around?) had that monofilament screen...

Yep, this is the most elegant solution I've seen. You make a screen frame that fits right on the inside lip of the tank trim, and use invisible 1/4" or 1/2" monofilament netting inside the frame.

Don't make them separately and then move them together. Make one pane, then starting at one corner of that pane, drag out the next pane, and so on. You should draw the tank in one piece. Not in separate pieces that you subsequently move to assemble.

I think you're confusing laminated safety glass (like a car windshield) with the tempered glass some tanks use. There's no plastic in your tank's glass. And tempered panels are cut to size before tempering.

I'm not in the hobby at all! :) The time a tank requires is one reason.

I'll second the rice. Put the refractometer in a nylon stocking first, so it doesn't get rice inside. Then put the stocking in a bowl of uncooked rice.

I'd like a top-viewable 40"x40"x18" tank, rimless. Auto dosing and water changes. Low maintenance is my dream. :)

I definitely got more rust in the basement when I put my sump down there. It was in a small separate room, with an open doorway, and stuff outside the room got rusty. I think a tank in close proximity to a washer/dryer might cause faster corrosion. An exhaust fan might help. Keeping the tank...

The trim won't fit anyways if you change the dimensions from 48x12x18 to 48x18x12, as I was suggesting. Sounds like a good way to turn a sort of annoying shaped tank (55) into a really useful one. Old 55s are easy to come by. If this works, it could be a great way to make sumps and frag...

I'm not convinced the black trim is that important. Particularly in this case where the water height will be about half of what the tank was designed for. So the pressures will be much less (square of height, right?) If you're worried about it, just slap on some eurobracing, or just eurobrace...

Not all are tempered. I had one that was not tempered, and I drilled it for a sump. FWIW. You can check whether your tank is tempered, and if it's not, steve, then I'd go for it. I'd have a glass shop cut the glass though. Actually, I think I'd swap one side with the bottom, and turn the...

Hmm. Maybe there's no low-risk way to pre-emptively treat the delicate fish. After posting I tried looking for a thread I remembered Matt L. starting about this subject. I found it, but I'm amazed it is already 5 years old! Time flies! Here ya go. Some good input in this thread from some...

Hey Jay. You've probably heard that some fish do better with copper than others. I know butterflies, for example, can be killed by even carefully administered copper treatments.

Steve, you can try covering your sun corals with a plastic strawberry pint basket when you feed them. The peppermints won't bother them except when they have food on their surface. I always had great luck with peppermints. But I never kept small expensive LPS frags, so I can't say whether...

Those look to me like closed loop returns. There's a screened intake below them in the center. The two loc-lines are returns from the pump. Normally that sort of setup is just connected directly to an external pump, not to a sump. All the plumbing is sealed, so if the power goes out the...

Thanks for helping out, Dave and Deb! :)

Two weeks is possibly the right timing for a Brooklynella infection. It can kill within a day of showing symptoms, and the early symptoms are very hard to notice if you don't know what to look for. No way to say, but it's a possibility. Might want to leave the tank without fish for a few...

Did you notice anything odd about the fish recently? Any chance they were ill? How long have you had them? Notice any sores or cloudy spots on their skin recently? If they died, it would be totally expected for the serpent to make short work of them. Predation seems to be much less...

What he said.