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    Finnex Ray II

    hey guys, i havent been around in a while since i broke down my last tank. I'm thinking about getting a nano up and running with stuff i have laying around...i was looking at the Finnex Ray II fixture for a 5.5 gal tank (16" long.) i was wondering if anybody had any first hand experience with...
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    Neighbors Noisey Dogs

    my problem is my neighbors have 3 pitbulls chained up in his backyard that are outside 24/7. They are barking constantly at all hours of the night keeping me up. now it is 1:51am and i just called the police department to file a noise complaint because i am fed up and have to be at work in 6...
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    1 millionth tank stocking thread

    i am looking for some ideas to stock my 40.. its a 40 gallon display with 40 gallon sump... tricky part is, im a big fan of wrasses like the solar fairy wrasse, green wrasse, etc... also one of my favorites is an orange spotted prawn goby. where i get into confusion is my tank is BB, i know...
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    canister filter closed loop?

    i am thinking about building a nano for a frogfish...i am wondering if it would be a bad idea to drill the tank for the intake and output of a canister filter below the water line more like a closed loop to get a cleaner appearance then having the hoses hang over the side... its a sealed system...
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    crabby crab crab

    found this crab today in my tank...i had seen him around a month ago, sticking a claw out of a crevice/hole in a rock, and tried to lure him out, with no avail, so i put hot R/O water in a turkey baister and blasted the hole, and just assumed he was dead... well today i was putting on my socks...
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    Fish Life

    ok i cant stand the wondering anymore...i have the worst luck with fish, none of them are safe... my paramaters are decent, i mean lets face it im not perfect on the water changes and stuff...but my biggest thing is i have never lost a coral in the 2 years i have been keeping tanks, but cannot...
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    ID needed....w/ pics

    i have a couple of these in my tank...the one in the first pics is probably almost 1/2" in diamiter and i can see a mouth, so my first thought was an anemone, but i havnt seen any like this posted anywhere...i have had one of these in my tank for a long time back when i had everything in a 10gal...
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    halloween costumes

    i know with halloween comming up alot of you have parties....i am in need of costume idea's.....lol what are you guys planning on going as??
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    Other Pets??

    i think it would be interesting to see what other pets people have besides there tanks....im alergic to anything with fur (mice, cats, dogs, rabbits, ferrets) so i have pretty much everything without fur... Female reticulated python (just a baby) Trinity: Umbrella Cockatoo Max: African...
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    Clams and BB??

    i was wondering if any of you bare bottom people have clams in your tanks, and if so how do you have them in there??? i know some clams prefer sand, and i also know that alot of people suggest putting a rock under them in the sand so they dont ancor to the bottom of the tank... i was kind of...
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    Housing by UH

    hey guys i have been on the forum for a while, and have only lived in houston for a little over a year, but i just got accepted to UH main campus and am wondering if you have any ideas for housing in that part of town. Like i said i am pretty new to houston so i dont know what is good and what...
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    What will it be??

    hey guys, i havnt posted in a while, odd stuff been keeping me busy, but i think i have something you guys might enjoy, spent a couple hours cutting up 80 feet of angle iron, lets see if you guys can guess what it is going to be....
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    tons of baby shrimp

    i noticed some a couple of weeks ago now, but every day there are more.... i cant take a picture of them because they are to fast and small but they look almost like ghost shrimp....the biggest one i have so far is like 1/8" the smallest is probably like 1/32" or 1/64"......you can barrely...
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    Hair Algae in refugium

    im not sure if anybody remembers but when i first set up my 125 i had a crazy hair algae problem....well it is all gone in my display now but growing like CRAZY in my refugium....i was wondering if i should just leave it alone or try to pick some out....im assuming it doesnt really matter aslong...
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    snail id? (pics)

    i found one of these in my tank recently and took it out since i was in a hurry and didnt have time to post the picture....well i found another one in my system tonight, it is a little bit smaller then a marble.
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    kalk reactor?

    ok, so im looking into getting a kalk reactor from nick's reef but have a question... i read that the curculation pump is ran for 3min 6 times a day, assuming to stir up the kalk...but how is it fed into the tank? do you run your topoff container with 1/4" O.D tubing, through the reactor into...
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    refractometer

    WOW...all i can say today was my first day at T&T and i used a refractometer there, and ended up getting 1 at the end of the night as a "was at the LFS all day and didnt buy anything" present :-D... o by the way everybody should stop in and tell paul how awsome all the saltwater tanks look, i...
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    dwarf moray wont eat

    i know it is soon to be posting this, but i bought a dwarf moray from T&T on tuseday, they had it labeled as a white lipped moray, and said it was one of the dwarf morays... my question is any ways to motivate him to eat? i ordered a pair of gripper tongs but for now i was sticking the end of...
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    stopping micro bubbles

    i am wondering the best way to stop micro bubbles...both my refuge side and my sump/skimmer side there are alot of bubbles going through the bubble trap into the return section... this is the sump, baffles are 1" apart, and the center baffle is 1" off the bottom at first i had the pipe on the...
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    baby pistol shrimp

    i was cleaning out my filter sponges on my overflow box, and i have a milk carton cut in half that i was putting the sponges into, so i put the sponges into it and i heard this little clicking noise, i saw something on the filter that looked like a mysis shrimp but it was trying to move, and its...
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