Larry Grenier

Sorry if this has already been discussed. Where does one find good sand now-a-days? You used to be able to go to Home Depot and get the Southdown stuff. What are my options now? I don't need much.

Thanks folks, mooching & thanking PM's sent

Also, if you break apart, I'm interesed in the Eheim 1260 and some LR.

Very cool design. Jeff(NAGA) recently build one for me which I'm in the process of setting-up. Looking forward to updates on your progress.

I'm planning on putting 2 K4s in my 96 which in 42"L X 24"D X 22"H and was thinking about putting them in the rear corners pointing forward and slightly towards the center. The flow whould hit the front and disburse widely from there. Good idea for yagerboy and/or myself? Only half hijacking

I just set-up a 30-gal tank with sand from my old 65 and a bit of macro and a light. Amazing to see life pop-up in the sand after sitting in a bucket for a few weeks. This tank will end-out being the fuge/RDSB for my 96-in-progress. I'm looking for a few cups of live sand and a little macro to jump-start the system if any folks in N. VA or not too far MD can spare some. Also need just enough dry sand for cosmetic purposes in the display tank if anyone has any they don't need.

Pu a Y on the return with one branch going to the tank and the other going thru a ball valve and then returning to the sump or feeding something else like maybe a frag tank or fuge. hat way you can cut-down on the return flow without dialing-down the pump and wasting it's capacity. Even if you don't do the frag or fuge, returning to the sump will give the skimmer more "skim-time" fo each measure of water. Cheap & easy.

I'll bet that would slow it down and make the change less abrupt.

I've found it on-line at several places usually well over $100 but he best price I've seen is at Marine Scene righ here in our area. Go figure

I've seen it called by various combinations of the words "magnificent, ornate, foxface, rabbitfish". I see it's yellow close cousin frequently. Is it outrageously expensive?

Good news & thanks for being a guinea-pig, I'm planning on buying a few soon.

Thanks Jason. Hopefully picking up some base rock & starting on the stand this weekend.

Whooee, the skimmer in the earlier pics is crankin! Don't inhale when you open that thang! Love the moving stuff out from under the tank.

Guilty as charged. I did get the tank from NAGA. Thing of beauty even empy. I just built my durso & return. Just real busy with 2 jobs & stuff. I'll post pics soon. Anyone in Manassas wanna see one of Jeff's (NAGA) "Pimped-Out Aquariums", can stop-by. Just purchased my lights today. Able to use a bi of what I already own plus a few DIY kits. Took advantage of specials plus leap-year 10% off at HelloLights. Updates coming soon.

Get a few feet of the tubing used for connecting ice-makers at Home Depot or RO Units tubing at your reef-store or on-line. This stuff is semi-rigid and easy to fit tightly into the right-sized hole. I'm not with my tools but I believe 1/4" hole.

I've built 2 dorsos and just did my 3rd last night. What I do is get a few feet of the tubing used for connecting ice-makers or RO Units. I drill a hole in the cap at the top just big enough to fit the tubing into. I feed the tubing into the hole until the gurgling sound diminishes and then trim the remaining tubing leaving a few inches for adjustments. I'm no engineer but its worked for me a few times. It sucks air thru the tube which mixes wih the water way below the water line in the durso. HTH

Kinda scarry. Good thing you remembered the poisinous spines.

Photosynthetic life (the pretty stuff) may be dead but I'll bet the de-nirifying bacteria is still alive so definitely don't dry the rock; you'd be destroying one of the major purposes of having live rock. It will pretty-up under lights. Go to you local reef store and get a few pieces of rock with nice corralne to seed the rest of the rock.

If you add corals to your tank from a tank with much dimmer light... you might be in trouble If you change your bulbs and keep the same photoperiod causing a significant increase in light... you might be in trouble If your old car is still siting in your front yard and the weeds around it almost completely hide it... you might be a redneck If you have light-lovng corals and you acclamate them proiperly you shouldn't have a problem

Very cool, thanks! You gonna put one in your tank?

I'm planning fish for my 96 gall tank and from what I read you should introduce them all at the same time or immediately after a restructure so the well established fish doesn't bully the newbie.

Hey Josh, if you want to get into SPS I would also suggest Montiporas and "Green Slimer" Acropora. Put the Acro up high in the tank. Make sure your alk and calcium are good and these are easy SPSs. I'd suggest the branching Monti rather than the plating in a small tank because the plating, given fair conditions, quickly takes-up alot of real estate; just my opinion.

Great stuff & great photography.

And some of those are filled with silicone anyway