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Thanks I have a router table but cutting by router I cannot get a slight taper. I am not sure whether a tapered plug is a good thing.

I have a blue background 180 gal 8 foot acrylic tank. It was used as the sump to a 300 gal acrylic display tank. I have both. The acrylic thickness is half-inch for both. The previous owner drilled holes of various sizes bulkheads on both tanks, the smaller tank into the front clear front...

If one is going to add invert during fallowing, one should do so at the early start of the fallow period. Water which invert come with may have ich; this is not difficult to visualize. Eradication of ich is likely if one would proper fallowing. It is not wise to create problem by impatience...

What is "mature"? I am certain that with respect to ich "mature" means little. Dealing with ich is mostly a matter of rigor of procedure to eradicate it; "mature" has little meaning.

When there is no ich in a system there will be no ich outbreak. Very exact. Ich can be eradicated. Very exact. From almost sterile, medium to process ammonia can be developed to maximum in about 4 weeks. Very exact. Nitrate and PO4 to a level undesirable to a reef DT is quite acceptable for...

The ocean and then no ocean is more.

Such vagueness is not necessary, and likely detracts from the truth importantly. First, as far as fish are concerned, ich outbreak is because ich exists in a tank. Second, as far as fish is concerned, a tank needs not be "mature"; rather, the medium that does the biological filtration should...

If you often have ammmonia problem in QT, then you likely do not do 3 well. If the medium for QT has been cycled well, you generally will not have any ammonia whatsoever no matter how many fish or how great the bioload is during QT of 12 or more weeks. The only chance the above is not true...

Why do so many still have problem with ich? 1. Faliure to appreciate that a tank is both pathogenically and chemically closed. Failure to understand why some diseases have to be eradicated. Failure to understand why other diseases cannot and need not be eradicated. Failure to understand why...

possibly Sepia bandensis (looks like in the picture) I saw some at the Ocean Park in Hong Kong here and find them very interesting. Today I was looking at at least a hundred cattlefish for food at a seafood restaurant. The day temp high water temp here can be about 80-82F. What is the highest...

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Thanks May be the sohal is too much fish

Is 240 gal 8 foot tank big enough? What fish will it not harm?

There are many reasons for QT. First, there are many diseases to treat because most marine fish are still collected and because a tank is a closed system both pathogenically and chemically. Second, a major part of QT is to acclimate. Getting a fish to feed eagerly and competitively new food is...

What is a typical cost of a five inch sohal tang in the Southern California LFS? (as above "Reef Central") I don't mean ordering online, which I think is more costly. I can buy one for what I believe is a very low price and want to know whether it is worth the trouble.