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    Astrea snails

    I bought 20 astreas for my 29 a few weeks ago. They did a great job with the over abundance of algae that WAS in my tank and now I'm worried that I have too many snails and not enough algae. I'm worried I'm going to have to supplement the diet of my clean up crew with some nori. With 1 fish...
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    NEW ASM Mini

    http://www.asmskimmer.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=72 Any opinions on this for a 29g tank? The G1 is double the cost.
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    I need some comments and advice

    I think you should do this just because of the comment above. If DIY makes you uncomfortable then this sounds like the perfect opportunity to get your feet wet (well, hopefully not your feet, but certainly your hands). Get your boyfriend involved but do this so that you learn about what's...
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    PVC vs. ABS

    What about sheet ABS? I want my BB to be sloped, I want gravity to help out my spray bar. I do not want a reflective of surface of ANY color, and I do not want a white surface. Starboard, which seems to be the standard, only comes in white. ABS comes in black with roughened surfaces like...
  5. K

    timers

    So I finally got lights for the tank...the fish is so much happier and the tank itself looks much better as well. I'm wondering what people use for automatic timers for their lights. There's the old standby rotary ones with the little plastic things, but they click when they turn on and off...
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    yet another noob question

    I hate being the noob, but everybody was at some point...I guess it's my turn. For background, I'm a fish biologist and I'm used to working with equipment I can't afford. The aquarium test kits seem so inaccurate to me (except KH, I like titrations). Anyway, reading through a few threads I...
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    Cyano?

    Details, details :D It's a 29 with a 29 sump to be. I did H20 change #2 yesterday. I'm also running a canister filter until I get all of the rock and the skimmer. Once they've arrived, I'll pull out 1/3 of the filter media per week. I have 1 yellow tail damsel and I'd like to have 3...
  8. K

    Cyano?

    No skimmer yet. The tank is about a month old. There's only about 12 pounds of LR but more coming by this weekend. VERY SSB. Water parameters were taken a little over a week ago, I need to run over them again. The nitrates were about 10ppm, ammonia and nitrites were very low. I don't...
  9. K

    Cyano?

    It's got a hold. It's not as hard as say, my corraline algaes, but it's pretty dense. It's dark, almost black, but I'd call red, very very dark red. Since I scrubbed much of it off, which may turn out to have been the wrong move, there are only a few specks here and there...hence, no...
  10. K

    Cyano?

    Is this cyano? I don't have the greatest color vision in the world but it sure looks like it to me. What's different about it is that A) there are no bubbles in it and B) I tried to scrub it off and this stuff isn't scrub offable (if that's a word). It didn't really come out in a photo, sorry.
  11. K

    Plumbing for 29g

    So, I've got the bug again. I went through this in college and haven't really had tanks in about 10 years. So here I am getting rolling on a 29g reef and it starts to snowball. I like the size of 29s so I'm sticking with that for awhile. I did decide that I needed more water volume...so I...
  12. K

    Painting the back of your aquarium?

    I don't think it'll crinkle. I do think that you have to be very delibrate when applying it so as to avoid bubbles. I'm thinking about using this stuff (and will let you know how it works) simply because the tank is up and running and it seems like an easy way to get it done. With the sides...
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    Painting the back of your aquarium?

    It's not tint. That's the key to this. It's that window sticker stuff. There is no adhesive and it's much thicker then window tint to boot. It's simply a clingy sheet of very darkly tinted plastic. While it isn't opaque, it's nearly so.
  14. K

    Painting the back of your aquarium?

    I was toying with the idea of using this stuff... http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=272& I don't know if it will work on acrylic though.
  15. K

    Thoughts on protein skimmer idea for 29g?

    O.k. the needle wheel is the way to go. What about the rest? Is having something 6 or 8 inches in diameter doable or should I just do 6 inches (or even 4) and save myself some heartache? Is PVC going to work similarly to acrylic (I'm sure it won't be as pretty)? Are the needle wheel pumps...
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    Thoughts on protein skimmer idea for 29g?

    Looking for opinions on my simple design and how to build it right. I'm planning on adding sump to my tank (actually making my 29 into a sump and getting another 29 that I'll drill overflows into as my tank). I was thinking of going with airstones for the sake of simplicity and cost. How much...
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