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A customer recently contacted me requesting a project that included a divided section to house two mantis shrimp. These two zones flow slowly into the skimmer zone, and then into the return zone. The display tanks will drain into the mesh socks. An external pump will push the water back up to the display tanks. The customer will drill the sump for the bulkhead himself.

The sump has three mesh filter bags, rather than the common 200 micron filter socks because they don't clog up ...

I got home tonight from a little Irish Thanksgiving party (St. Patty's Day) and I walk in to a wall of what I am assuming (though hoping not) the smell of Hydrogen Sulfide in my house.... to clarify on why my nose may be playing tricks on me A. I have had sinus issues for the last 3 weeks and have been unable to smell anything and B. my wife is from Japan and sometimes she makes some things to eat that I refuse to put in my mouth.

I immediately get on the internet and start searching ...

Hey guys, made you look. Actually, not a complete joke. Tomorrow morning I'm going up to my aunt and uncle's to get their old saltwater tank. I don't know much about it other than that it's a 90 gallon tank. They're giving me all their old equipment as well so the plan is that I'm going to take it all and then sell what I can't use myself. However, I'm sticking to my 75 gallon tank since I don't really like how tall the 90s are. Anyway, keeping my fingers crossed for a good, reef capable light ...

Hi Reef Addict i finally join this web site after met Jessica when she visiting Thailand
My friend took a photo of my tank for me yesterday and i love to share this to everyone here .



I will post older photo of my tank and it will take time to find them i hope i won't keep you guys waiting too long.
English is not my main language so please excuse my bad English.

Sorry if this is a double post. I had a post all ready to go then I accidentally navigated away from the site and poof the post was gone.

Anyway, as I've posted previously, I'm really making an effort to get the hair algae under control in my 29 so it doesn't get transferred to the 75. To those ends I've changed the type of food I'm feeding from Ocean Nutrition Formula TWO Marine Pellets to Rod's Foods Original (wanted the Fish Only but the only "lfs" (1 1/2 hours away) ...