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While keeping a cold water tank is a good idea first you need an oversized chiller for your tank. Then factor in the in the summer months the chiller will be running constantly and your electric bill will be alot more than a reef tank

Jans Tropical fish is close by as well. Across the street from Montclair plaza

Nice. My favorite fish. I have four in my tank for almost 6 months. Added them all together. Your idol looks a little skinny for not eat for 3 weeks. Feed it pellets 3x to 5x a day for a few weeks until you dont see his dorsal bone as much. You might need some extra water changes with the extra...

Didnt find a Fish Fantasy in Yorba Linda via google. Only points to Riverside

NIce. Out of all the Angels I've kept the Queen Angel was the fastest grower. Expect the size to double in two months and in about a year you will have nice medium sized one.

Thats the first I've heard to cure ich.

Nice MI! My all time favorite fish. If you introduce the MI first they can be kept with other fish. Fish that are with my MI and larger is a Powder Blue tang, 5 yellow tangs, and a clown tang. Had I introduced it last then it would of been a different story.

I've dipped hundreds of fish to get rid of flukes. Try to get the temperature the closest. I used to test for pH using a ph tester but its so hard to get it dead on. Now I dont even bother. Others from other forums would agree as well. Unless your water is very acid or very akaline then I...

i got an email from him on his mailing list. Its 25% off everything on his list. He didnt put a date down though which is strange. You can meet him anywhere between LAX to San Diego. As long its the freeway he is taking. Usually its the closet gas station off the freeway offramp and he will...

I've been to this place a few times and went in last week. I like his older location because his prices was lower. Its a tad higher now. Prices for fish and corals are about average. Not high or low. His display tanks are better than most LFS. I rarely listen to what any LFS employee says about...

Did he sell you the mushroom for $5 and you assumed the two tiny hitchhikers on the same rock were included in the price or did he just sell you the aptasias for $5 ?

You wont find it at LFS store. Only pool stores carries them. LEslie pools sells Phosfree which work as well. Just get Phosfree only and not their combo Phosfree with other stuff. Thats what I use. Since there is no livestock to worry I just dump 1 capful a day, water turns very cloudy (lots of...

Go to the beach and collect some sea water to compare. The salinity of the ocean is pretty stable worldwide within +- 0.002 if you collect not close to a runoff or after it rains.

Pretty easy. The 1.3mm plug goes into your Vortech and the plug in charger transformer is your Float Charger you can get from Harbor Freight for $12. Dont need the Float Charger yet but just the 12v car batter and the 1.3mm plug. You can use a motocycle battery if its 12 volts. You can use any...

It dropped to 70 degrees with no problems. I think heat wipes out a tank faster than cold. I had two heaters so the other heater slowly brought the tank up to 72 degrees and stayed that way.

The Vortech backup is 12v. You can find any plug that you have laying around and cut it. My plug came from a mouse charger. You can also buy the plug only from Vortech and splice it your own. It fits the the Vortech 12v backup. The middle wire of the plug is Positive and the other is negative...

Why is it when we go out of town for a few days is when something goes wrong with our tanks? I have a webcam for my reeftank. First thing I checked when I got to Las Vegas was that my reef lights did not come on. Great now what on the first day of my 3 day trip. No one was home to call to check...

Refractometer are known to be off as well especially when calibrating with RO/DI water. What is off is the slope miscalibration. Calibrate it with RO/DI water and your low end of the salinity on the refractometer is accurate but not the high end. Calibrate with sea water or a calibration...

Heaters are all the same when heating up the water. 100 watt heater will heat the water just as fast as another 100 watt heater providing the watts are accurate. Only difference are the quality and accuracy between various heaters

Good idea on the chiller/heater combo but I would need to burn at least 9 amps for my tank size. I know PEX are hard to coil but since my sump is 24" depth x 72" the coils could be alot larger. Here is the link on the other communist reef site with the water heater/pex tubing combo that...