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Thanks for the offers... I hope that what I will pick up from Jan will be enough but the rest of you need to move closer to town (LOL)... thanks much

Thanks very much.... when I get home from work I'll hopefully see no further damage so I hope not to need any further help on this one. I am bringing a remora urcin and a prizm home from my office tank so that should tide me over.

Thanks for the advice... I wold have loved to save time and work but my concern was that moving the tank with the rocks and sand was too heavy and also more likely to break. Yeah... I'm scared about what I stirred up and hope that when I return home I won't have a bad scene. This certainly hasn't gone verty smoothly or well and I will have to do it again in a number of months when I will be moving again...egads!

thanks very much... If I can find some closer to my travels that would be better since I have another long night ahead of me but if I can't find any closer I'll check in with you again. Again, thanks for your generosity.

Please see my previous post about plumbing help for the background to this. I am in need of about 20 gallons of RO/DI water. If at all possible I would like to pick up tonight. Not quite an emergency but maybe close. I have buckets with me. Anyone have some to spare or know where I can buy some? I work in BEthesda and live in Falls Church/Alexandria. Thanks.

thanks all... what a stressful experience this beautiful hobby is! So I'm now going on after my third night of less than 4 hours sleep... Update... I came back to my apt and one of my containers was all clouded... clarkii and three stripe, urchin, some snails, tiny starfish all dead. disintegrating candy cane. Couldn't tell if my beautiful and huge GBTA was dead or alive but it looked awful. I think it still has a little life left and I'm hoping. Called Jan and Coral Hind who were very helpful and Dave helped me incredibly walking me through tightening the nuts and what Zygote and Dave S posted here which I didn't know. Started to fill tank with sand and then water and then rock and it was very murky. Waited some and put in some corals and then fish and then more corals. Around 1:20 AM when I was finished adding all but my most beautiful corals and clam which I waanted to keep out in a tub in case there was a die off in the tank and because it was still so cloudy, I was putting my light fixture in place and dropped it in the tank. SH**! Luckily not plugged in. Then the last step to empty the skimmer collection cup because it was collecting fast and when I replugged in the skimmer it didn't work! AYYYYY! So after another half hour of messing with that trying unsuccessfully to get it to work, I called it a night. Tank is still a number of gallons below level for overflow and I ran out of water. New apartment doesn't have the right fittings for my RO/DI so I need to pick up some water which I will make a new post about. Thanks all for your help. Hopefully the worst is over.

Since I didn't get any responses to my previous posting this AM about plumbing help I would really appreciate any consultation I could get. So even a phone call could maybe help me figure out what to do. After moving yesterday, my overflow and return are dripping and I'm not sure what to do to get a good seal. So I can't fill the tank and my corals and fish are now in buckets for the second day and I'm afraid they will suffer. Thanks so much for any help.

We moved yesterday and after staying up till 4 AM the previous night breaking the tank down, I was up till 2 last night trying to stop a leak in my overflow and return. I am not very knowledgable about the plumbing and couldn't get it stopped so I've still got all the fish and corals in buckets and hoping they make it. Would anyone be able to come by tonight to take a look at the piping? I now live in Alexandria on the corner of Rt 7/ King Street/ Leesburg Pike and George Mason. Nothing like moving into a new apt. and having a leaking fish tank to make friends. I would call it a nightmare of sorts but I haven't slept enough to have one. Thanks so much. Dano

Wow!! Very cool and I can't wait to show my boys the video. Congrats and good work!

Thank you all.

I went to a couple of hardware stores to find an instrument that I could submerse a probe in my tank and it would tell me if any of my pumps/power heads were emitting electrical currents. Some of my power heads are older and I have gotten a shock in the past. I have a ground wire in the tank but want to throw out any hardware which is dangerous. Anyways, none of the people I spoke to knew of such an instrument. I'm sure there is such a think that probably is not too expensive. Thanks

thanks... will try to take rock out today and pry off with razor blade and if I can't get it out of the tank I will try injections. They are spreading!!

thanks much... though I wish it weren't so, because I like the way they look, it looks like Valonia - Green Bubble algae is the correct id.

On one of my rocks I have a small colony (growing) of a few dark green/blackish balls that look like little pearls. Anyone know what these are and if they are harmless? Thanks

Thanks Chad... two of them have brown polyps coming off fleshy branches of about an 1/8 inch. One is more purpully and looks like a 2 dimensional tree with very thin branches. Two things I will do when I get home is put them in more flow and baste them with some marine snow. Thanks again.

I have three different gorgonians and they all have been receding back from some of their tips leaving a threadlike skeleton without any flesh or polyps. I have tried cutting back the tips to just past the point where the thinnning is visible but I haven't been able to stem the problem. Any ideas? Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback... very interesting about the stretching being related to lighting and, in fact, it may have been about a year since I last changed my T5's

I have a 72 gallon with a large GBTA (has never split and I've had it a couple of years) and a huge RBTA (has split many times and better split soon because it is overtaking my tank - central disc is about a foot wide and with the tentacles out it is torching some corals). Anyways, after hiding for a few days it has come out with a huge vengance and is opening up covering and laying on top of about half of the GBTA. The GBTA doesn't seem any worse for it but I am wondering whether they could sting/kill eachother and/or smother one. Thanks

As long as I don't have any scheduling conflicts, I can offer a tour of my tank in Falls Church by 7 corners.

So I was wondering if anemones procreate by splitting, do they age? Is one anemone older than another other than the time it takes to split? Do they ever die of "old age"? How do they bring variation into their gene pool? Thanks

thanks to all for suggestions...have a great weekend

After having the two part sit aroiund for months I finally started to dose and so now I am looking for a good (e.g. cheap and accurate) test kit to make sure I am dosing correctly. Any suggestions? Thanks.

thanks all .. the problem is resolved... I tried to sanke it by inserting a hose from the top and the bottom (there is a bend in the overflow hose which connects the tube from the tank to the sump and I couldn't get the snaking hose all the way through). I blew hard into the snaking hose from both ends. Just as I was about to send Chip some pictures from my phone ( I don't yet know how to add pictures to the web site), I tried turning on the pump one more time and it is working. You are the best ... the help I get from Wamas and all of youze is just incredible and so appreciated. Of course, that means I end up having a much bigger, better equipted and more beautiful corals than I ever would have imagined and of course that means my kids and wife won't get holiday presents because i spend all my money on the tank (LOL) . Happy, healthy and merry to all. Dano

No u tube return. Doesn't overflow the sump and I've already tried on off a few times. Still not working. Maybe I'll stick a hose down the overflow. Thanks for the ideas. Any others?