Recent content by Limpet

I have a 200 Gallon tank and I currently have three Magnum 350s pumping and filtering. I would like to replace the magnums with one pump and filter system. My general plan is to run PVC pipes, say 1.5"-2" diameter, from the tank to the pump/filter which will be located in the cabinet below...

I have a 135G salt tank and would like to add some live rock. I already have a all forms of filtration. I'm concerned that my current fultration will rob the rock life of its food. Any advice? Can you point me to a good link on adding/maintaining live rock? What should I know about live...

I did use them on my former sump setup. I was not very impressed. There is not a lot of surface area. And I was always plaqued with the problem of making sure that there was water flow over all the balls. I personally would not use them again, there are just better options. Its hard to...

Can anyone recommend a tank backing that you may have seen or have that you were very impressed by. I'm referring to the picture or material that is added to the back side of the tank. Usually you see these picture rolls at your local fish store which have pictures of an ocean bottom of a...

GL, I could not find the southdown product. I sent them an email and they said there product was not available in my part of the country. Finally I found a place on the other side of Sacramento CA, that had dolomite sand. When I arrived I found that they had several grades. All grades...

I went to Lowe's and Home depot and I could not find the pool filter sand you mentioned. There is a rock supply place on the other end of town that claims to have three grades of Dolomite sand. I'm hoping to check it out tomorrow. The other type I have learned about is Quartz sand...

I went over to Home Depot and found that they had three types of sand. The first type was constructions sand and was very irregular and unattractive. This was on the order of $2.30 for 50 lbs. Then they had very uniform sand which has a somewhat brown look to it. It had been screened for...

I'm not really aware of the weak silicon you mentioned. But one alternative would be to silicon a suction cup to the item you want to add to the tank, then suction cup the item to the tank wall.

If your not ranked high already, you need to get your ranking increased on google. There are many optimization you can make. Google is the biggest search engine with the largest amount of traffic. And best of all its free. Here is a link to another forum I am a member of., that has good...

I think this is one of the most up to date forums I take part in. All the graphics and ease of use feature are just first rate. What is missing is the users. This forum is nearly dead. There is almost no posting. How many forum members are there???? I have started a few posts in hopes of...

When I read Great Lakes post regarding this topic it seemed that it was if the bio wheel concept was new to many. I have old catalogs from the early 90's and bio wheels are all over the pages. Has there been some sort of recent change or improvement? I personally like all the benefits of...

I would like to find a low cost source for a nice looking sand. I'm after that white tropical beach look. At this point I may use the Playground sand that Home Depot offers. I'm not sure it will be "tropical" enough. Any Ideas?

cichlidmaster, In the scenario you decribed where you have two power heads pushing water down under the UG filter, and 6 bubblers pulling water from under the UG filter, it seems you have converted the UG filter into a pipe. In other words there is no "pressure" to push the water through the...

ips, You need to keep the flow to keep oxygen coming to the bacteria that make the gravel their home. Not sure how long they can last without it, but if you kill off the bacteria because of lack of oxygen you will see a quick build up of Ammonia followed by a quick die off of your fish...

If you use a power filter, why not run the return to the spot where you now have a power head attached to the UG filter. Then you will have a reverse flow UG filter that is feed with mechanically filtered water. This should prevent any accumulation that Semper Fi ran across with his UG filter...