Recent content by Serk

I learned something the other day... A few months ago I replaced the Quiet One 4000 pumps running my system with Eheims... When I took the Quiet One's out of service, I mixed up an about 1:3 ratio of vinegar:water and tossed 'em in, put 'em in the garage and forgot about 'em... Recently...

I know you've seen it, and it sadly no longer exists, but for completeness, here's my Anemone Propagation System Build Log

Our cats love fresh water to drink, and we're bad about making sure they've always got enough of it... I'd been tinkering with this idea for a while, and decided to finally do it. There's a ledge above the drain for our washer/dryer. So, I got a water dish, and some uniseals. I put a 1/4"...

I was planning on throwing caution to the wind and re-using the 8 year old DSB from my old tank in the new one, but after the tank went pitch black from removing a few rocks the other day (As in 4 metal halide lights were on just inches above the water, and I thought the lights were OFF!) I'm...

Assuming the tank is glass... ...try a razor blade at a shallow angle to see if that'll take it off... Be careful of scratching the glass though... Also, muriatic acid (Available at Home Depot and the like, usually in the pool department I beleive) is like vinegar on steroids for these...

Okay... I must be missing something... Is there such a thing as a full size Lumenarc III that's setup for DE bulbs? I'm only finding Lumenarc III mini's for DE, or full size, but only set up with a mogul socket... Am I smoking the cheap crack, or overlooking something really obvious? Thanks!

Nothing's set in stone yet, but we put an offer in on a house the other day. IF the offer is eventually accepted, one of the way's the spousal unit talked me into this is that there is a room next to the living room that #1 shares a 10' wall WITH the living room, and #2 she's willing to let me...

W00t! There's an Elliots on the civilized side of town now! The old Hammers Hardware in Mesquite has just become an Elliots! http://www.hammershardware.com/home.asp

My recently set up in-line anemone prop tank was set up with no clean up crew, and has developed a very nasty forest of hair algae and cyano... On a whim, I dropped a few Trochus snails from my main display in. These guys don't move fast, but they leave a trail of total devastation (The GOOD...

I've had some varieties of Cheatomorph do that to me as well, while other species of macro algae (Caulerpa and other strains of Cheato) thrived... In fact, I'd given up on Cheato for a while, but I kept getting samples from different people's tanks, and finally got a strain that's growing well...

So, last night I was getting ready to go to bed, and heard this weird CLICK-CLICK-CLICK sound coming form near the reef... Went to investigate. It was the GFCI outlet that most of my reef it powered on, it sounded like it was trying to trip, but wasn't tripping... This, obviously highly...

Since I'm gonna try the Interceptor treatment soon (As soon as I get my hands on some, to be exact) I found this very useful, figured I'd share.... I was picking up some prescriptions at the Wal Mart in Rowlett, and while waiting noticed these on their clearance shelf for $2 each - Apex Ultra...

Anyone ever heard of a brittle star that's commensual with Montipora sp? I first noticed this star fish hanging out on a Montipora Capricornis frag/colony almost 2 years ago. That colony was lost in the coppering incident last summer, the star fish moved to a green Montipora Digitata, was there...

Kalkreactor that feeds all my ATO, so I just voted Kalkwasser...

I saw the pictures of the member's tank with the acrylic "Algae Tree" hanging vertically in the water column, and it got me to thinking... I don't like getting my hands in the tank when I can avoid it either. And, I've got one of those magnetic algae clips with a long stick to hold the clip...