March FTS: The Birdsnest is really dying except at the tips: Some sort of Acro (right?): I love macro shots of SPS polyps: Some ...
My first year of reef keeping had its share lessons and mistakes. I had a detritus problem and the filtration was too inadequate to deal with it, so cleaning was a pain in the mass. I had problems dialing the lighting and flow just right, and as a result coral growth was inconsistent. This first year taught me what I really wanted (I think) out of the hobby, so I decided to start anew. I wanted a ...
Updated 03-19-2012 at 08:18 PM by gerbilbox
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 ...
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