So, What other secrets are you all hiding from me???

[reeefermadness]

iv kalk drip

iv kalk drip

Some of the iv bags have the tube separate from the bag. The tube has a sharp angled plastic end that you can push through a gallon milk jug to make a fairly good seal. The tubing has a pinch type restrictor to control flow as well as a plastic clip to cut of flow all together. I mix about a tsp and a half of Mrs Wages lime per gallon ro/di. I let it sit over the next 24 hr, then drip about 1 drop per second. The iv should be pushed into the milk jug about an inch above the bottom to keep the sludge/ precipitate out of your tank. Stick the end of the iv tubing under the water for best results, and drip at night. In my setup, the jug sits on a 1x4 over the sump. HTH
Steve :fish2

 

[fahz]

This is an old thread with lots of good tips that I thought I would revive. Looks like Newreeflady is falling from the sky or found a man not that that's bad. Anyway I just attended my first frag swap and tried what proved to be a good frag transport idea. Went to the grocery deli and bought 30 clear plastic food containers in half pint and pint sizes cost .20 each. I put the containers with the frags in a couple of styro shipping box for transport. The swap was a 2 1/2 hour drive for me and when I arrived and opened the boxes my frags, all softies, had there polyps out even the pulsing Xenia was doing its thing. Every container listed the contents and price on the cover. The response was great and I sold out except for a few multiple frags in less then an hour. After 10 hours in the containers the 4 or 5 frags that I took back still had there polyps open and were back in my tanks none the worse for the trip. It proved to be a good way to transpot and sell frags and no leaking bags or rubber bands.

Fahz

 

[Dougroberson]

LOL

Angela you have discovered alot of things in the early stages that many of us learned by trial and error before the Web. So many little tricks of the trade are overlooked and people assume you must already know about this or that.

Keep up the good work!

When I was a boy, we had to walk 60 miles across the mountains, in waist deep snow, barefoot, then through 700 acres of thornbushes to a lagoon and then swim out to the reef to get our clownfish. Then the next day, we had to do it all over again to get the anemone.

And we were glad to have it.

 

[Creade]

You must know the trick to keeping the fish warm while traveling in winter.. now that is a secret you should share with me.

Carrying fish through snow, wow, Im impressed!!

Creade

 

[capnskunk]

geez it took me forever to read this thing. i want a buttfish now.

 

[Boxingcrab]

What is so funny is I was at the LFS today and looking at an orange cucumber feeding itself and deciding that after I have had my tank setup for a year, I was going to get one for my wife and myself as our one year tank anniversary. Now <scratching head> I'm not so sure.

 

[hwynboy]

lol boxing crab

 

[fahz]

geez it took me forever to read this thing. i want a buttfish now.

I hope it was worth your time I didn't realize it went dead back at the end of April. I found it worth reading with some good useful
tips. Here's hoping a few more useful tips are posted. Here's one worth looking at OB sleeves I buy them by the 100.

Fahz

http://www.kvvet.com/KVVet/productr...alse&mscssid=8A1ADC752B2540B0B25ADEC149B9D2B9

 

[Brimarbio]

"When I was a boy, we had to walk 60 miles across the mountains, in waist deep snow, barefoot, then through 700 acres of thornbushes to a lagoon and then swim out to the reef to get our clownfish. Then the next day, we had to do it all over again to get the anemone."

luxury! When I was a kid we didn't have clown fish! We had a orange and black striped cat that liked to swim. Every day we'd walk 100 miles through a driving blizzard and 6 foot high snow, up hill both ways, with just a hot potato to keep the cat/fish warm, then swim 70 miles across shark infested water and 30 foot swells during a hurricane just to let our cat/fish swim with an anemone,

And we were glad to have it!

 

[deadmanh]

^

 

[jciwlsn]

I hope it was worth your time I didn't realize it went dead back at the end of April. I found it worth reading with some good useful
tips. Here's hoping a few more useful tips are posted. Here's one worth looking at OB sleeves I buy them by the 100.

Fahz

http://www.kvvet.com/KVVet/productr...alse&mscssid=8A1ADC752B2540B0B25ADEC149B9D2B9

Those are great! I can't wear the orange/blue aqua gloves because they're too big and awkward. My hands are small and can put 3 hands in one of those gloves. I have been searching the internet with no luck until I found this post.

Thank you!!!!

 

[deadmanh]

but these orange and blue ones you can use over and over without them ripping right?

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...435&perpage=25&highlight=day by&pagenumber=27

 

[Nek]

Heres a tip I didnt see through page 7.......cut the output tube off of your powerheads. Gives out a random, broader, more indirect current.

 

[jciwlsn]

but these orange and blue ones you can use over and over without them ripping right?

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...435&perpage=25&highlight=day by&pagenumber=27

Oh yeah, they're made with a very thick rubber which makes them almost indestructible unless punctured with something really sharp. A better buy if you fit into them. They only come in one size though.

 

[Casie]

Nek, your "interests" listed in your siggy are hilarious.. nice tip too!

 

[fahz]

Jackie glad you found the gloves they are great for the times when you have to do a quick dip in the tank.

Here's another tip for people who are feeding frozen foods and having algae problems. Try Hikari brand frozen foods it seem to be a much cleaner product fish like it better and the algae problems go away IME anyway.

Fahz

 

[Toutouche]

Fahz,
Do you know why this is? It's because brands such as the Formula 1 and 2 use gel binders and it's these binders that contribute to the algae probs.

 

[jciwlsn]

Funny you should mention that. As soon as I switched from Formula Two to OSI, I noticed a big difference in water quality. I now add Nori 2-3 times a week.

 

[fahz]

Fahz,
Do you know why this is? It's because brands such as the Formula 1 and 2 use gel binders and it's these binders that contribute to the algae probs.

I noticed it more with San Francisco Bay brand. The water added to defrost got cloudy and the fish rejected a lot of pieces of Mysis.
I'm sure the nutrient load in the cloudy water was causing the algaes to flourish.

Fahz

 

[Fishy1]

Just ordered those gloves.......thanks, Fahz