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sounds like skimmer is working, and seems your feeding habits are not out of line. maybe cut back some and see if that lowers nitrates, if not maintain feeding habits as not to starve fish have you checked your ro post water for nitrates??? how long has tank been setup, usually reef tanks take anywh...

not sure about fire retardant material, but you could make wood spacers to mount between the reflector and bottom of canopy. i would make the spacers at least one inch or more. then of course the next thing to make sure is that you have about 4-6 inches from water line to bottom of bulb. here is how...

what type of skimmer are you running? how much and type of skimmate does it produce?

yes bio balls are nitrate factories, the berlin method which uses premium quality live rock(houses nitrifing and denitrifing) as the biological filter. you will see that new tanks using cured live rock from initial setup rarely ever go through a bilogical break in as compared to a tank using convent...

the best thing i like about metal halides is the ripple effect(very natural) you can achieve with aggressive flow at the top of the water column.
as far as heat is concern metal halides and vho's give off the same amount. just that metal halides heat is generated form such a small surface area.

the first one is football size, the other ones fall under this one. no i do not feed the clams, never have. i run 3 blueline 10k 400 watt mh, and one 660 ice cap with one actinic white and one actinic.

agreed, one filter is not better than the other(in the sense of biological filtration), they all serve the basic principal.

i assuming you are referring to what types(no, vho , mh) of light systems are the best. to be honest with you they all work just fine(within limits, esepecially the depth of the tank plays a big part) i have succesfully kept acros(conisidered to be most light demanding) under no(normal outpout), ho(...

when it comes down to it, simple is much better in the aquarium world. now, i am definetyl a techno freak :D , (when it comes to my reef tank, audio/video,woodworking, etc. etc.) but these devices if not used in the correct manner can reak havoc in an aquarium without having the knowledge and unders...

leave it to tunze to come up with an ingenious idea. ahh, the power of the wavebox . http://www.tunze.com/Interzoo-Neuheiten-2004/Wavebox.html this simple(ha, ha, ha) device uses the principal of resonance(same principal as in the function of speakers) to generate waves within an aquarium. as you ca...

hand caught baby from the gulf of mexico, i collected this one and some others this past summer from a rig in the gulf. still having a hard time identifing this little guy, any help would be appreciated.(and yes that barnacle shell was his/her home out in the gulf http://themadreefer.com/DSCF0014.JP...

and yet another baby

and another baby

here is one my baby dersas, which is about 5 years old.


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