Recent content by jdmneon

is there any way to determine the PAR rating of a bulb short of actually measuring it using expensive light intensity instruments. Do the company's that make the bulbs post these ratings? or does someone have a link to a database that has them all written down? I'm kind of lost here because...

yes they died in the exact same location... under a bridge of rocks and on the sand-bed, I found this suspicious as well, but wouldn't a mantis or pistol shrimp have eaten my coral by now? there are many corals in that exact location that haven't been touched? I'm not sure but I haven't seen my...

hey I just purchased a standard 12 gallon Nano-cube and I was looking at lighting,I decided for better or worse that I'm going with metal halide. I've decided on the viper HQI clamp lamp and basically I'm trying to figure out what color temperature I want the bulbs and how powerful of a light I...

no both were definitely body's they all had guts coming out of them...

the body's were indeed recovered, although both times it was clear that they had died several hours ago, the sally-lightfoots upper half seemed disconnected from its lower half and the shrimp was in pieces (although possibly from snails and the starfish and other scavengers). These were VERY...

hey I just had one scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp and a sally-lightfoot crab die in my tank, they looked healthy as can be and died within a week of one another, when the sally-lightfoot died I saw the pom-pom crab on top of him, it wasn't clear what he was doing and I couldn't identify the cause...

hey I didn't think a picture was necessary because these , basically I have these white strings about 1-2 cm long all over my live rock, when I feed, if any food hits the rock these strings pick it up, they seem to absorb it, the strings come out of these tubes that are about 1/8-1/4 centimeter...

alright I guess a sump might be a good idea, but I don't even know where to start, I don't know how to hook a sump up to my tank. Or how to start the protein skimmer, or what to put in the sump. I really don't know where to start, I have a lot of experience with Freshwater, and moderate...

The turbo says its good up to 250 gallons. Also I don't understand why you would overlook Mechanical filtration in a saltwater aquarium, Mechanical filtration is one of the three types of filtration, overlooking it would be just like overlooking biological or chemical filtration. Also big...

I really like to have a few though, it increases water circulation and weeds out, they also provide a breeding ground for amphipods and copepods, (you should see how many are in there) it also breaks down Nitrite and Ammonia at a much faster rate than just a skimmer. hmmm? Turboflotor Multi or...

I just had a question about my Crocea Clam, it seems to me like it might be hyper extended It has been growing successfully in my tank for a full six months, and has always been extended about the same amount. Is this long enough to know whether or not it is getting enough light. Wouldn't it...

thanks for the prompt reply's guys, this is the first forum I've come to that actually seems to care enough about hobby to answer inexperienced-moderately experienced hobbyists. I wasn't just talking about a normal powerfilter, the one in question is a bio-wheel Penguin 350B Power Filter Up...

Hey guys I recently purchased a 225 gallon reef aquarium and I was wondering whether or not I needed to purchase a sump to run a wet-dry filter. In my 29-Gallon I ran a power filter and it's worked great. I was wondering if maybe I could just run three or four (larger) power filters on my 225, I...