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Re: Brian's 225g Monstrosity! Brian, Back to the pump for a minute. If it was making that noise, I think you should still order a seal kit from them and do the replacement.

We've been through this because I have very good benefits and my wife works elsewhere. Some companies will give you something for optong out and some won't. There's no advantage in being double-insured in NJ (except in dental plans, where it raises your limits). You literally don't save a...

If you have a local fish market, they throw away the roes from a lot of fish, like flounders, when the clean them. They will sell them to you for a pittance if they have them. I have not tried feeding this stuff to my fish. My late father, a man of bizzarre tastes, used to bring them home when...

Re: Brian's 225g Monstrosity! IME The Sequence Dart will run for months making a noise like that. You might not be able to stand it thoyugh. Mine was in the garage!

Re: Here's my now 375 (was 120) by Bax Man, Bax that sounds like a giant pain in the... Of course the weather hasn't cooperated (would it be better if it was 98F?). Supposed to be in the 80s today. Best of luck, I hope eveything gets settled in all right.

Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input. Nice pix James. I really like those naso tangs. Hope your "mystery acro" turns out to be a stunner, it's known to happen!

My reef takes a fair amount of work for a hobby. More than a coin collection, probably less than a horse. I know other people have muddled though, but in the face of job loss, my illness or the illness of a loved one, I would probably drop or curtail the hobby for a while.

Yeah, I didn't want to say anything. There was an old thread on RC which featured a pic of a yellow tang passing a rubberband it ate!

Yeah, alcohol and water don't mix. Oh, wait...

Is she gonna go UP or gonna go DOWN??

Stupid Newbie Mistakes #100: Last night I found my skimmer was really not working at all, after working pretty well for months. I did some troubleshooting and found that the five foot tall downdraft tower which which houses the bioballs was almost completely clogged, enough water and air was...

Please have a look at my kalk reactor thread for some ideas. Not to rain on your parade, but I don't think you can make your own magnetic stirrer out of a magnet and a computer fan, but do give it a try. Maybe pop for a real stirbar on ebay, they are coated with nylon so there's no contact with...

Yipes! First Fish Over the Weir! If you look back in this thread you can see my tank has a long "coast-to-coast" overflow. Until now no fish went over it, there is no screen but the water that goes over is only 1/4" at the deepest. Every morning I do a quick feed of pellets for the fish who...

Re: Here's my now 375 (was 120) by Bax Ouch Bax, +1 for the medicinal whisky! I have been known to squirrel away various medicines the dentist has given me for use in those circumstances, which in my case usually involves the lower back.

I don't usually rinse. I mostly feed PE Mysis & Formula 1, they don't seem to come with the "Soup" the old SF Bay Products have.

Happy Brian, Birthday!

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My rarely shown green slimer. I used to have a much fatter and faster growing coral called "green Bali slimer," I got it from the late Brian Conger. It was nothing like the current crop of slimers, more like a stag. That really shows the weakness of popular names.

Here is a picture of my blue millepora frag. Very slow grower. This pic illustrates a fact about this coral. To get the blue color it needs to be blasted with intense light. If you look carefully in the photo, you can see that even the areas where the frag is shaded by itself have failed to turn...

Jimroth's Big Ol' Tank Pics, Supplemental While I wait for my camera to come back from Canon, I thought I would see how I could do with my old Sony point and shoot. The pictures are inferior, and the fish are terrified of the autofocus illuminator, but I got to post some pics! Before and...