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I have a friend out west who is using mollies for algae control. Big tank (220gal), lots of fish and inverts and 25 mollies for algae control. he tells me they eat more than the tank can produce so he feeds them taxifolia. They are a fragile fish in freshwater but he has told me that in salt they are bulletproof. He also said that they spawn (monthly) at a very level providing the other fish with a tasty meal. Do any of our group have experience with these fish in saltwater.

Eddi I have built a meeting page to put in the history section of the web site. Its called "food party 2004" I moved all of your pictures. If you could send me the recipe for the food I want to post it on the same page. We want to keep the gallery all aquaria pictures and place meeting pictures in the web site. This works better for site managment [pcwin We are soon going to have photo of the month contest and people pictures mix up the system. I am learning as we go so I didnt have this posted well.

4 part attack for your problem 1st: On a tank that size you could get by with just a Hang On back skimmer and some powerheads. But you need to lose the canister. Unless you clean it every day it will cause algae.Use a skimmer like the seaclone 100. I have one on my Nano and it work better than the skilter or the prizm. 2nd: Try a phos remover like Polyfilter. It not only grabs the phos from the water it also strips a lot of the metals out the help the algae to grow. 3rd: Stop all flake food, high in ash and phosphates. 4th: Water changes. if you have a ro/di filter do a continous water change routine. 1-2 gal a day. If you dont have one try this. Warning upcoming product plug Petco sells real Pacific ocean water (filtered) in a 5 gal box for about $9. If you can afford it, it is unreal how good it makes a tank look. I have been using it in my nano (I change 1 gal mon and thur every week) for the 4 months it has been up. The results are incredible. all of the microlife on the live rocks came alive and the tanks cycled in 4 days. In my experience those 4 Actions will almost always work to retard and reverse algae. To prevent future outbreak add sand stirring critters. the black cukumber, or some good sand moving snails will help keep down the problems by cleaning up the waste on the bottom of the tank.

Grim:: I have seen that study and the results look pretty good. I have seen them on a few tanks and I think they look great. with the reflectors on them they are the brightest thing you have ever seen. A good friend of mine has had them on his 125 gal tank for 8 months. he has 8 of the 54watt (i think). He has a mixed reef from shrooms and zoos to sps and everything is doing well. The color is better than any tank I have seen (except robz). My next tank will either be t5's or a mix of t5 and mh. Grim I promise to buy them from you :D