I am 14 in michigan and I love this hobby. My first aquarium was a 20 gallon fresh water tank that somebody let me borrow when I was 11. less than a year after that I got a 75 gallon fresh water tank off craigslist. about a year and a-half ago somebody offered me a 75 gallon aquarium with stand, light, 200 pounds of dried out rock, and a sump with a return pump and an internal overflow box. Since it had everything for a saltwater ...
I was recently inspired by a Reef Central thread, Salt Water Mixing Stations Let's See Them, to redo the way I mix saltwater. My goal was to make it easier to perform water changes by having a built in pump to send water upstairs to my tank rather than lugging buckets up and down the steps. Honestly that is my biggest deterrence to doing water changes, so if I can make them easier to perform, I will do them more frequently. This is the design I wanted to make. It would allow me to ...
Updated 03-07-2011 at 11:26 AM by drimo
Ok everyone just starting the build but I just got the most important part today. 150g (60 x 24 x 25) now the new skimmer Ok so its been a week or so since I updated this thread, so here are some updated pics. I am building my stand out of 1.5" steel tubing with a wall thickness of 3/16. ...
Well, I had to work a lot both before and during the event, so I was tired. I was happy to see so many happy people though. We had over 300 people attend, and I got a couple of new corals. I need to post up a bunch of images, and promise too.
When I first setup my tank, the guy at the LFS suggested Crushed Coral, and now after doing some actual research and even from my own experience, ive come to the conclusion that CC is not the best for my tank. Of course, now Im stuck with the task of changing my substrate, but my question to you guys is this: How do I go about doing this without putting unnecessary stress on my fish and corals? I dont have a quarantine tank, so I'd rather not risk extracting my fish unless I absolutely need to. ...
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