Recent content by TomV

That sounds like a neat way of doing the acclimation, Jeremy! It will be interesting to see it in action.

Well, I just got finished setting up my drip systems... Hopefully everything comes in within the next hour. Gonna be an interesting afternoon! LOL!

I would think that while the warm water from your tank is dripping, it takes a while for the whole volume to cool down.. I plan to drip for an hour or two. Hopefully that will be enough. Astarea snails have always been tough for me with a lot of die off before because I didn't drip.

Thanks to my friend Dana (at Dana's Caribbean Critters), I have this list of critters and corals coming in tomorow: 10 Nassarius Snails 10 Turbo Grazer Snails (Astaria) 50 Blue Leg Hermits 1 Serpent Starfish 1 Coral Banded Shrimp 1 Sally Lightfoot Crab 1 Corky Sea Finger Gorgonia 1...

I'll probably end up buying a Un-interruptible Power Supply first and then a Generator sometime in the Fall. Our power outages aren't long in the Spring and Summer if and when they happen. But Winter, if one happens, it's at least a day. So, I would need the extra juice for the Heaters AND the...

I think I may be able to manage 5 gallons a week for a water change. It may not be perfect. But, it's better than nothing. Right?

Hi Chris, I have a Python that reaches downstairs. I could buy another length to get it to the bathroom sink, where I plan to hook up a RO/DI system when I eventually get one. So, I could probably send the RO/DI water upstairs from the Python via a pump to a holding tank. There, I could mix the...

Hey Frankie! Thanks, bud! Varga: How small in a 55g? Something like 2 gallons every other day or something? That would be kind of odd, though because my saltwater evaporates nearly a gallon a day..... I guess I better buy extra RO/DI water till I get my own filter. It's 68 cents a gallon...

Thanks for the welcome! So, you're saying I don't have to feed the corals anything really? I still have some "Reef Chili" which has lots of vitamins, no phosphates or nitrates, and different kinds of coral foods within. I guess I'll use that. I used it before with good results. My filter...

Yeah, I know I said this before. I did try to bring the tanks back to life over the Winter... but the power outages killed off my fish and corals again... :(

After power outages and disasters related to them, I really got burned out and discouraged. It seemed I lost fish every time we had a power outage and they always happened in the middle of Winter! :snow: So, after picking up some battery operated pumps and now that the Spring is here, I've...

Hi folks.. announcement here. Thanks for the help getting me connected with people with shrooms, but I have to put off the order and the request for now. Yesterday, our car was involved in a side-impact collision. Luckily, our Ford Focus is made really well, because no one got hurt, THANK GOD...

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Wow! Quite a collection in there! Sounds pretty nice! Any recent pics of it?

I will be buying around the 15th of the month. PM me some pics of what you have or post. This week got tied up with a big Clean Up Crew purchase from a diver friend of mine I know in Florida. She's shipping me a bunch at a huge discount. So, I couldn't pass it up. But, I WILL be buying on...