Recent content by fishbone

I am making a DIY skimmer. I am having trouble finding material to make the gaskets out of. What can I use to make the gaskets, and where can I find the material.

What size input and output does the mag 2 have.

Claws are shaped like an green emerald crab claw, and pretty large.

I bought some new live rock and found a crab that has the same body shape as a large green emerald crab, only this crab is grayish black, and has small bright red dots all over it shell and red eye sockets. Just wondering what type of crab it is and if its reef safe. Don’t have any pics

A friend of mine is considering buying 130 gal flat backed hexagon Tenecor or a 150R rectangle Tenecor tank. The problem is it hard to see the quality of the tank/stand/hoods just by looking at one on a web site. I would like to here some Tenecor owner opinions on their tanks. Pics would be...

Where can I buy arcylic tubes and colored arcylic sheets in chicagoland area. I have tried the phone book but can't find a company who sells this stuff to the general public.

How thick of acrylic do you use to build your flanges, for a DIY protien skimmer. I plan on tapping a thread into the acrylic so I need to make sure the acrylic is thick enough.

In what city is Mcmaster-carr located? I need to know to call 411 and get the number. Do they have a web site?

I was gone over the weekend attending the macna conference, and when I came back the power was off on my tank, and had been off for over 12 hours. All my fish, but one are died. My soft corals are mostly closed up. A few of my acros had RNT so I removed them from the tank. I woke up today and...

I have done a lot of indoor gardening, every book I have read recommend using flat white paint, not glossy.

So the only real concern is mass spawning. What about the stuff that the caulerpa leaches out that turns the water a tint of yellow. This is the stuff I am worried about. I currently use caulerpa to export nutrients from my tank. I am just curios what by-products caulerpa produces, and if an...

I have heard that caulerpa should not be incorporated into a SPS tank because it leaches off chemicals, which interfere with classification of SPS corals. Is this true?