I just had a head count of hermits and what used to be 5 red legged hermit crabs and one blue legged crab have suddenly become ten reds and one blue? has anyone purposely bred these or turbo snails. Robin

Does anyone know were I could buy a impellen for a red sea prizm protein skimmer?

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I'm growing bubble calerpa in my 20g sump, and it's currently lit with a 96w PC, simply because it's what I had available. What is the miminum light I could use and still have the macro be ok? Would compact flourescent be ok? -- --- billy AIM: gordygord2003 MSN:

Huge sale on 55/65 watt pc bulbs... $18.11 on 50/50, actinic 03, and 10ks.. Grab one or two while you can. Supplies are limited.. Shipping for drygoods can be as low as $5.00 depending on what you total is. Please see shipping info on sharkys for more information. We still have the $29.00 fex ex...

I just want to beef up my cleaning crew with about 10 hermit crabs and about 6 or 7 Mexican turbos. I would like to order online because my local shops seem to be short. Does anyone know where I can make a small online order and not pay 3X the actual cost of my order for shipping? Thanks very...

All, Well I have just come away from the tank bewildered by what I have just seen. I was watching TV and all the sudden lots of white transparent and opague silk like pieces were floating around in the tank, I can only describe it to be like pieces of skin in the water. I have a hermit crab which...

The new reef tank (still maturing) is a family project and the guys have come up with a list of fish that they fancy populating it with: 1 x blenny 2 x clown fish 1 x regal tang 1 x long nose hawkfish 1 x goby 1 x pyjama wrasse 1 x false eye puffer

A few weeks ago we restarted a marine tank. It is 270 liters and we have 2 clowns and 2 damsels in the tank. We have came accross a nitrite and amonia problem that we can not seem to get rid of. We have put some bio balls in the tank along with some "Easylife" and that seemed to have helped with...

The water Im using has a PH of only 7.6.. too low for my few month old reeftank. It is advised not to keep depending on buffers like ph plus etc and also I have to use a lot as tank is about 250 G. One suggestion was to add some dead coral as decor and also crush some coral and add to substrate-...

OK, I give up. I have been searching for an understandable explanation of the relationship between Calcium level, alkalinity, pH, CO2 and whatever else matters. I have looked at some of Craig Bingman's stuff. The guy is brilliant. But I have no PhD in chemistry so a lot of it goes way over my head....

I have a chiller circuit for my 150 gallon reef which pumps cooled water back into the tank at about 600 gallons an hour. The tank was designed poorly in that with the hood on, I cannot access 2/3rds of the tank. Further without someone else to help me take the hood off I cannot access that...

I've just acquired some decent lighting, the last component I needed to go reef, from FOWLR. I'm now running 6x65 PC (4-10,000k & 2-actinic) on a 75 gallon with 20g sump, seaclone100 skimmer, 60 lbs Fiji LR. Lightly stocked; six-line and some firefish, along with a cleanup crew. My question is,...

All, I have been unsuccessful previously keeping anemones and I would like to add one to my new tank. When would you suggest is a good time to add one after the tank has been matured? (tank has been matured for 3 weeks now) I am sure my problems previously have been down to how they have been...

I put a prawn in my tank last night and it got the Lion Fish excited, but the dumb thing mistook a small hermit crab for a prawn and ate it hole. What can I do ?, the shell is in it's guts now. Being a poisonous fish I didn't want to grab it and pull the thing out.

I have a pinpoint leak on the supply side of my mag pump it sounds like a calcium reactor and fills the tank with micro bubbles . I suspect it is the union because when I put water on it it sucks it in. Maybe it has the wrong sized O-ring. Can I use a thread sealing compound called select...

All, Another question which still perplexes me is this concept of sand beds and whether they should be shallow or deep. The guy in my LFS swears blind that you should keep it shallow as he says a deep bed just holds rubbish, nitrates etc. To this end I have always had a sand level in between the...

All, I have been going through the lighting conundrum for marine tanks. I am putting in another new 420 litre tank and I am having problems working out the best lighting scenario. At present I am looking into an Arcadia Overtank Luminaire which has 4 new T5 fluorescent tubes, each of 54 Watts -...

All, Does anyone here know a good mail order livestock supplier that is either in the UK or will ship to the UK - some recommendations would be great. Thanks, David

If you guys wouldn't mind taking a look at a couple of posts in A.B.A. I would appreciate it... Conch Owners... DIY Canopy makers (or caprenters =))