Recent content by JoshF

Has anyone tested the combination of O3 and UV? I like the idea of running hydrogen peroxide in a stream with tank water through the UV device to create active O3. The beauty of this, as Bingman points out, is that the microalgae in the first stage are incredible about being able to absorb and...

I have a small scrubber unit from MMFI. I decided against buying their lighting system as I had an Icecap 430 lying around unused. I bought the scrubber during a 1/2 off sale. I don't plan on testing their claim that this is the only filter to use, but I do like the use of an algae filter...

Kalk: I would wager that you got the response you did because your reply seemed to disparage the idea of captive larval rearing and seemed to miss the point entirely. The plan isn't to rear coral reef fish in our tanks and then release "buddy" the chromi into the reefs. The plan is to wildly...

Tanu: thanks for the info on the Apogon parvulus. I'm not interested in any fish that have a high mortality rate in captivity. Ethics outweigh aesthetics! Josh

And, of course, there's nothing stopping interested aquarists from copying the text into Word or Pagemaker, etc. and simply adding in the pictures. Not terribly difficult or time consuming, especially for 4-5 articles per month. It won't look like a professional magazine, but as a reference it...

from reading the article, it sounds like there are two stages which incur high mortalities: the pelagic larval stage and the settlement stage when they return to the reefs. Apparently capture at the first stage is easy, but the larvae are too fragile to rear. At the second stage, they are...

I really like the high quality HQI spots. It would be nice to be able to find a source for these. I've been looking around a little but if anybody knows a direct reference...? I've looked at a few translated German commercial sites, but the translation software works only okay on technical...

Thanks Steve: To those who ask about DSBs... Well, hermits are all right for a particular type of set-up. The problem is, they eat algae, but this doesn't remove anything from the system. Hermits don't grow or reproduce particularly rapidly, so your nutrients just get recycled back into the...

Well, you could go the inexpensive way. Forget about all that sand critter hooey. It's all just hot air. Then, a year from now when you can't get your nitrates down and you spend $500 on a more powerful skimmer and a lot of money on algae magnets, and a lot of time cleaning your tank you can...

clutchcargo: I like the 35mm canister and the low voltage relay idea... My current float switch operates at a full 120v and puts enough current into the water that if I have my hands in the tank when it kicks in I can feel it using me as a ground... It's definitely on the way out. I've...

CK: I knew about that. There was a period of an entire day between the initial indoor test firing and the failed firing in the garage. Thanks for double checking, though. There are a million things that I might not know about that would affect this... I certainly didn't know about the...

Actually Mitch, DOM will tend to settle out. Bacteria will start to grow in the water column on the dissolved nutrient, the the colonies will become larger. These will also tend to stick to smaller POM, forming larger aggregates. I notice this a LOT with my skimmerless set-up. As my...

I have to admit that I was more than a little perplexed and worried at first. I bought the light used, online. When it arrived, the bulb fired right away. I then wired it up outside, and the ballast was humming like normal but I only got the tiniest flicker and only just as I shut off the...

914 and esmithiii: I definitely like the heating lamp idea. The set-up is fairly temporary (less than 6 months) and will be used primarily for scale up. I have a ten gallon right now, which will seed a 50 gallon to be used for growing out seed clams. When I buy a house within the next year I...

Mitch, you are a genius! Now I feel even worse that I couldn't help out more with those movies for the MACO course! That would work a lot better than some sort of space heater... Josh ...another trip to Home Depot tomorrow!