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tip

tip

Here is a pic of a fishtrap that I made and that I can say works very well! You just have to have patience:( I bought two cheap plastic drinking pitchers and cut the bottoms off. I siliconed the two ends together and then took a nylon tie strap and wrapped it around with a suction cup. I hang it in the tank...like so and then I feed the fish in it. They get use to going into it and out. After they are feeling real comfortable doing that I put the cap on one end and let them get real use to that. Then it's easy to put a net over the one end when they are in there!! caught yourself your fish!!:D
 
Somewhere in the past 8000 posts to this thread someone mentioned using a tooth brush to keep the ever expanding Green Star Polyps in check.

Better than a tooth brush which is on the soft side, is a Bathroom Shower Tile/Grout brush. Its still all plastic and reef safe, yet much stiffer bristles to grind off the undesirables........
 
Just a thought

Just a thought

I can't stress the importance of including your significant other and or family in the process. (arranging rock, etc)

My wifey is usually the one who is asking, "When are you going to get some more rock, you still have room for some more ":cool:

duane

<img src="http://www.98532.net/ReefPics/mushroom.jpg"
 
"Speaking of the wife, heres a great tip.
Buy your OWN set of measuring cups."

i'm dealing with the same issue, I keep telling her "it's only seawater"
 
Building up a DSB (deep sand bed)

Building up a DSB (deep sand bed)

Building up a DSB (Deep Sand Bed) should be done 1/4 inch at a time; you don't want to kill your sand bed critters. You also don't want to get the sand on corals, polyps, etc. attached to live rock, so you can't just dump it in.

Cut off a leg from your wife's discarded nylon panty hose. Also cut off the other (toe) end. Wash it well to get out soap, etc, even if new. Tie an overhand knot in the center. I put 1-2 cups of saltwater WASHED sand in a small plastic container. Then slide the stocking leg over the top of the container. It will stretch to fit snugly. Hold the stocking to the outside of the container, invert the container, and dump the sand into the stocking; the sand will fall to the center. Set the container aside and hold the stocking-with-sand 'system' by both ends. The weight of the sand will stretch the whole system.

Turn off all flows in the tank and let the currents stop. Still holding both ends, lower the sand ball to the area you want to build up. Let go of the side the sand is on and slowly, slowly lift the other end, dumping the sand. Carefully level as needed.

If sand still stirs up and gets on your corals and polyps, you can blow it off with a kitchen baster.

Turn the flows back on.:thumbsup:
 
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Too lazy to do temp corrections for your sg readings? Float a cup of tank water in with the change water until the temps equalize. Then as long as they're the same, you don't need to correct anything.

Even better tip for the wife or hubby - get them addicted to the hobby too! Worked for me, only problem is you'll be really broke cause there's no one to restrain you anymore... be careful what you wish for :cool:
 
Even better tip for the wife or hubby - get them addicted to the hobby too! Worked for me, only problem is you'll be really broke cause there's no one to restrain you anymore... be careful what you wish for
:lol:

That implies that the hobby hasn't broke me already!!
Good idea though.
 
Heres a tip: Merriam-Webster's online dictionary has a pronuciation guide that lets you actually hear how a word is said. Much easier than trying to decipher all of those symbols and "Hieroglyphics" for pronoucing words.
It is at http://www.m-w.com
Found out I''ve been saying stuff like "refugium" and "aragonite" completely wrong all this time!
 
Take a film canister...melt a hole in the top with a hot skewer. Fill cannister with a good pinch of brine shrimp eggs and tank water. Seal with cap, lay on it's side behind rocks in tank. Brine will hatch, be attracted to the light through the hole, and swim out into the tank. Egg shells stay in cannister and may be discarded. This is a great feeding "extra" while on vacation, or when expecting baby fish... it's also a nice way of getting live food into the tank on a continuous basis - my fish and corals love it!!

India
 
In addition to the disposal of saltwater, I run it along my chain-link fence...cuts down the use of my weed-wacker.
 
india's film cannister hatchery

india's film cannister hatchery

cool tip india, gonna have to try this one out.

i'd nominate it for tip o' the month.:thumbsup:
 
How about this one, Old computer cooling fans hooked up with a cell phone charger. Make sure the voltage on the charger is right.
I have an unlimited supply of cooling fans now!
 
For a cheep top-off unit:

Use a 1 gal milk jug (cleaned) filled with RO water. Place a net about 2'x2' centered over the jug letting the jug opening stick out. Put the cap on the jug, insert an IV drip line into the milk jug cap (it will make a tight seal) if you use the sharp end that normally goes into an IV bag. Grab the net from all sides and lift the jug turning it upside down, then tie the remaining part of the net into a knot.
Then hang your jug from an plant hanger screwed in the ceiling. Run the line into the tank and adjust the drip rate.

I can usually get a jug to last 2 days before refilling.
I liked this becouse it was a slow and continues process and I wasn't shocking the system by puring a cup or two of water in the tank at one time

This is what I did on my 55. Now I have a auto top off from my RO/DI in my 200.
 
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