So right before New Year's Eve I had to go out to Terre Haute, Indiana. I hate going out there but was obliged for family business so we rented a car and made the 10 hour drive(620 miles). My wife actually looking for something to do out there other then do the normal sight seeing(a ton of stuff in town is named after my family but is pretty boring) looked up some things. She found this place there called inland aquatics, I thought OK a nice fish store to waste an hour in. Holy crap was I wrong. ...
Updated 01-20-2010 at 09:30 AM by drakedeming
Once I got the new tank filled and going everything was great.Days went by (I think 11 or 12 days....) BIG MISTAKE #2 I discovered Biospira.Naturally wanting to go ahead and start stocking the tank, I did like the LFS guy said and promptly began buying and adding about six fish within two weeks.Well I must have generated even more ammonia than the Biospira could handle because within a week everything was dead but one false percula So I took my lumps and waited,and waited and ...
Over the past few years I have played with many different types of flow for my tank ranging from a few Korillia powerheads to inductors and Tunze streams. More recently I decided to run a tunze stream with a aqua surf that hooked into my Aqua controller jr. Although this made nice flow patterns it just didn't seem to be worth all of the money I had put into the setup. So from then I decided it was time to make the jump to the wavebox or the Votech pumps. The problem I had was the price I mean ...
Well, let me start by saying I have learned far more from fellow reefers than I have from books. I have also learned the hard way by making mistakes. DIY is a great learning experience as well. I have been reefing for about 10 years now and am on my second tank. First was a standard 75 that started as a peninsula tank and graduated into a 2 side viewable after a house move. peninsula is great, but real challenging for both aquascaping and flow (visually anyway). I ...
Here is the latest update on my breeding system. You can find the initial post here. http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...breeding-setup The breeding set up now running with water and the broodstock is in place. Here are the latest pics of the broodstock and system. Broodstock tanks and growout Larval System ...