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Beer, actually I don't spend a lot of time on maintenance at all besides clean the glass. I certainly don't spend time on changing water. Much of my time is on inventing new things or building rock. I don't think I spend an hour a week on the tank. I just typed an entire page and lost it so I am...

Wow you read that fast. Beerfish, keeping in mind that I am an electrician and not a researcher these ideas are only mine from my own experience. Some of the people's tanks here far surpass mine in beauty. My tank is and always has been an experiment. I do things that I would not always...

Beerfish you are totally correct in saying I am adding "unknown" chemicals, algae's and creatures along with possably cyano into my reef. I can't argue with that. But I am saying (IMO) the good outweighs the bad. I do sometimes have a short red algae in my tank that looks a lot like cyano but it...

Thats exactly what I am saying. If you could get live rock form the sea or some that has been in the sea recently, that would be great, but rock that was in someones tank for years would not do anything. I collect from the Sound and the Atlantic because I live here. I am sure the Sound has...

I don't know any of them that has an old enough tank to really know. Most of this hobby is conjecture and guesswork (same thing I guess) There are not too many real facts. I do my own research and have dove with just about every animal I have ever had. I have a cousin who is a marine biologist...

Phyl, if you have an electrician in the family you can get them top contact NPCP http://www.npcpsolar.com/ Or contact me and I will call them for you. I don't think you can buy them directly but an electrician can. It also helps if he took the one day course on how to install them. The panels...

It is my belief that whatever system you run it will greatly benefit from adding bacteria from the sea. I feel that eventually, in a couple of years the bacterial diversity of our tanks will suffer and we will be left with only a few strains of bacteria many of which will not benefit our tanks...

Total out of pocket was $23,000.00 of which I got back, $20,000.00 so it cost me $3,000.00. Of that I saved so far $600.00 on my electric bill since October.

That is probably true, thats why I run my reef with a portion of local water, rocks and I also collect local bacteria which I add a few times a year. If you put local fish in a sterile tank like most of them are, I don't think the animal will last long. I don't feel "modern" sterile tanks are...

I don't know what the bacterial theory is. I don't have paracite problems in my tank for some reason, so I never treated any wildcaught fish for them. The babies ate rotifers for a week then new bornbrine shrimp. I grew the shrimp as the horses grew. Brine shrimp can be raised on brewers yeast...

I installed 22 of these panels on my house last October. I got back $20,000.00 in rebates and tax credits. It generates about $100.00 a month for me, or reduces my bill by that much. I installed them myself, I am a retired electrician and I started a small consulting business.

I know this is an old thread but yellow tangs are egg scatterers and do not pass "egg sacks". I don't really know what that is coming out of the tang, but it aint eggs. :( Sorry

I had those seahorses a long time ago. Here is an article I wrote about them in the Breeders Registry. I also invented and patented the feeder which is shown. Thats when we used to feed seahorses brine shrimp. I raised a few batches of them on only that food...

Here are some local NY seahorses, the female is transfering the eggs to the male in my reef.

I have collected, bred and raised those seahorses in my reef. I use some NY water along with some local rocks. I also have snails for over two years and some hermit crabs over a year so far. My local NY tank has been running for about 40 years which I put shrimps, snails, fish and anything...

I have been hatching brine shrimp every day for many years (decades). I could not be able to keep small gobies and bluestripped pipefish with out them. I built a few of these, the eggs are put in the right, dark side and in a day they hatch. A black cover is put over the right side and the...

I collected all of my rock in the sea, some from NY. I just put it in my reef after removing the crabs

Running water down one side and up the other will not work. You can't filter the water on the side where the water comes up the tube. The trick is to get the thing flowing as slow as possable. In your tank, you probably could have gotten by with 10 GPH in each tube.

I forgot the maintenance part, everything that works needs maintenance. That sponge filter or whatever means you use to clean the water going under the gravel needs to be rinsed occasionally and I also stir up the gravel where I can reach a few times a year with a canister filter and suck out...