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  1. merkurmaniac

    What are these on the glass of my tank...

    They showed up a week or two ago. There are a few more now. They look generally round, flat, and yellow, like an egg yolk. They DONT move. Eggs of somekind I would guess. I used my macro lens and took some good pics. In one pic, they look spotted. I have a general assortment of snails...
  2. merkurmaniac

    Anyone know of a store in town with a FlameHawk for sale ?

    I am looking to add one to my rebounded, well, actually recreated tank. Alll done cycling, and looking to add a fish. Thanks, Richard
  3. merkurmaniac

    You have got to see the photography fro a guy here at my work... crazy inverts

    I work with the guy, he is in the structural group here at my work. His part time hobby is underwater photography. He has traveled a bunch and really taken some incredible pics. He doesn't keep a saltwater aquarium, but took these fantastic pics himself. Some of the crabs and sea spiders were...
  4. merkurmaniac

    How far to tear down my tank when rebuilding my system ?

    So, my tank had been practically running itself for a long time. Good LED lights and a dosing pump helped out. Unfortunately, when away on a trip, my tripped GFI and no pump situation went unnoticed for a day. I lost all three fish and then my clam about a week or two later. My tank was...
  5. merkurmaniac

    Anyone using aquaticlog.com to track water chemistry ?

    I started my own spreadsheet, then began using a guy's reef spreadsheet on reef central. I got contacted by a company running aquaticlog.com and decided to try it out, most likely because they saw my e-mail asking for a copy of the guy's spreadsheet. I started a log on their website. Its...
  6. merkurmaniac

    Superman monti control group

    So I bought this superman montipora a while back from a guy who had kind of let his tank go.... It was nearly white, mostly a big gray piece, without much color at all. I had read about alkalinity issues bleaching corals and I figured that he had let his alk get out of control when he got...
  7. merkurmaniac

    flamehawk

    So, I have been working out of my companies new office near FM1960 and I-45. We bought the building and kicked out most of the tennants (redoing the whole inside of the building.) One tennant still left is a doctor's office on the first floor. They have a nice sized saltwater fishtank in...
  8. merkurmaniac

    My homebrew 2 part that I am dosing

    For my little 34 gallon system, I have been dosing Kent Nano A & B for the last year or two. I bought some on clearance at Petco, then I bought about a years supply for cheap on eBay. I have been going thru it and figured that it was about time to get off that stuff and start making my own. I...
  9. merkurmaniac

    Pumpless water change scheme

    So, I have a room that I built upstairs in my attic. Its 14'x10' adn is air conditioned, has a ceiling fan, workbench, wood floors. Well, its become a fish room of sorts, but my tank is downstairs. My rodi set up is upstairs, as are a bunch of chemicals and my ATO tank. I had run a small...
  10. merkurmaniac

    Has anyone hunted down Magnesium Chloride (dowFlake) ?

    I have been reading about raising my magnesium levels in my tank. They have been chronically low. For a couple of years. I don't know how they got so low, and they seem to really resist my efforts at raising them. I have used Kent Tech-M to raise it some, but it takes a lot ! I have been...
  11. merkurmaniac

    Need to replace a chip on my MP10 controller..

    I had a slight overflow issue while on vacation. My coast to coast overflow lost suction (it has done it a couple times a year) and thus the water level crept up. Water started thru the overflow, as it should, but I have an unglued joint that allowed it to drip down for a few hours. I am...
  12. merkurmaniac

    So I thought my alkalinity was chronically low

    Turns out it was my test kit that was chronically sucky. I bought a salifert test kit for alkalinity and tested my water. 9.6.. cool. I went back to the old test kit that I had been using, and it tested only about 7 dKh. Aha... See, I had been concerned about a low alkalinity reading for a...
  13. merkurmaniac

    SO I got this Galaxia...

    I've had it for a long time, and he hasn't bothered anyone. He is at the center of my display, and gets full on flow from my vortech MP10, well close to full on flow. He always blows over the same dir. He struggled for a while when I was running the solartube and maybe also the smaller LEDs...
  14. merkurmaniac

    How do you feed the frozen food with gel binder ?

    I bought a bunch of frozen food from Citypets a while back. I cut them all up into individual foil packets and ixed the in a zip lock bag. I grab a couple random selections for my fish, but have found my selection to NOT be that random. This is because one of the foods that I bought has a gel...
  15. merkurmaniac

    Low dollar, eco friendly, LED Spotlights for shimmer + light

    Some people have seen my LED lights that I have over my 34 gallon hex. I used many individual heatsinks that are each a bit of overkill. i may redo them once again, and this time use more leds on fewer heatsinks. Here is my current plan... I am going to try a few different routes. All heat...
  16. merkurmaniac

    PIF Darth Mollusk's Neon Green Candy Cane

    I got one of these form him at one of the parties. He was handing them out to whomever wanted one, and I took one. It was the only coral that didn't get kilt in the skylight induced darkening that I went thru. Not enuf light resulted in a slow decline in all my stuff. Fixed now. So... who...
  17. merkurmaniac

    Snail Mail Fail . . . .. almost

    So I won an auction for 20 miniature Florida Cerith snails on eBay. I think I paid $10, and that included shipping. Not bad. It was to ship on a Monday, which it likely did. So, Wednesday, I get home to find a wet flat rate priority mail box in a soaking wet white plastic bag. The box says...
  18. merkurmaniac

    T-mobile 200 mb data plan

    I have a motorola Q that just bit the dust. I have been with Verizon 4 years and don't use my phone for a whole lot, other than making calls. I currently have no data plan. I am a cat-5 kind of guy and have 3 pcs at home on a wired network. I have a wi-fi on U-verse, but its turned off...
  19. merkurmaniac

    Talk to me about phyto, rotifers, and copepods....

    So I see a post by the manager of Petco at the Brazos center and his saltwater stuff. What the heck, its near where I live, I'll swing by. I ended up buying a 6 line wrasse for $22 and a neon goby for $11. I had read about them and was thinking about getting both of them anyways. So, I know...
  20. merkurmaniac

    Who sells Nasarrius snails in Houston ?

    City pets does not seem to, does T&T or Fish Gallery ? What about Fish Ranch ?
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