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Yes, that pipe is safe to use. Threaded PVC sounds great until you realize you have to work with fixed lengths of pipe. If you want to go this route, it is usually better to use threaded fittings and standard pipe - you cut the pipe to the exact length you need, and use threaded fittings for...

Love to see a FTS every couple of months. The close-ups, while pretty, don't show colony size or growth. Thank you for sharing!

Photos? I have always wondered... I thought it was too cold in Baja for anything but non-photosynthetic corals (and very few of those). It has the reputation as being where you go for pelagics (and sounds like you saw a lot of those) but corals and/or inverts not so much.

If you get the socks with the drawstring top (not the plastic rim) you can turn them inside out, which greatly helps with cleaning. Additionally, it also helps if you can lay them out in the sun until they are bone dry BEFORE trying to clean them. This kills all the algae / bacteria and the...

FWIW... when I lived in Chicago and volunteered at the Shedd Aquarium, we had a tarpon in our central display that we had had for 60+ years. 1935 the Shedd sent a train down from Chicago to collect specimens and bring back saltwater. Then the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 struck and wiped out...

I had a pair of orange skunk clowns for a few years in the 90's that I gave to a professional breeder because they were too aggressive in my main display tank. After several more years, he passed them on to another breeder where they still are today. During this time I'm not sure they ever...

I agree with reefes. I have done it successfully, but what I did was move livestock into sterile bare-bottom tanks with old tank water. When I lived in the city and needed to change apartments I would rent my new apartment one month earlier than I needed, just so I could set up temp tanks...

These: Followed by these (see also the fish in my avatar): If you have to ask, they're too expensive for you :) Most reefers have never even seen them, let alone had a chance to buy one. At least these are available in the trade, albeit rarely. I am not including fish like the Omani...

Just means they were juveniles. Clownfish are extremely territorial. Extremely. If you swim too close to their anemone in the wild, they will attack and bite you - I know from first hand experience. I would rather swim close to a shark than a large angry female maroon. What usually happens...

There are many commercial applications that need custom glass panels tempered by code - windows and shower enclosures being two. I just happen to be having a custom glass shower door / enclosure being made for one of our bathrooms and they need to come out, measure the job, get the glass cut...

A lot of people don't understand what tempered glass is. When you temper a pane of glass, you are basically baking it. You heat it to a certain temperature for a certain amount of time, and then cool it slowly. What happens is the crystal structure rearranges itself so that the pane of glass...

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You don't "dip" them in vinegar. You soak them overnight.

It is not difficult to culture, per se. However the only reason why I would bother would be if (1) I was running a species tank of non-photosynthetic inverts that required it. (2) I was using it as the pyramid base for live foods for raising salt water fish larvae. Just for a general reef...

When I met my wife to be, her single most specific memory was that I was growing phytoplankton in 2-liter bottles in a rack in my apartment window. I was a charmer, needless to say :) I don't have any current cultures, but I can answer lots of questions... If you are just looking for cultures...

About?... Could you be a little less vague? Is confusion a standard state of mind, or is it abnormal? Is your confusion related to your time on this web site, or something else? Did you eat something unusual? Etc, und so weiter...

It's called a Black Widow anemone because it considers all males as mindless targets...

The golden dimensions of an awesome tank :) No deeper than 20" because otherwise you can't reach the bottom :)

Cleaning the koi pond and installing new UV lights