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dca22anderson
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Posted: October 09 2008 at 10:45pm |
Adam...Thanks for the information...one of my favorite fish...great piece. Do you of anyone who has kept a pair in a home aquarium?
Thanks for sharing!
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cl2ysta1
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Posted: October 10 2008 at 2:10am |
there is a guy on reefcentral that has a trio in a tank
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Posted: October 10 2008 at 11:05pm |
Thanks cl2ysta1! I'll check it out
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cl2ysta1
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 8:01am |
here is the idol thread on RC. you will see MANY people are successful with these guys
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 8:52am |
you will see MANY people are successful with these guys
Don't say that too loud. Otherwise you'll start getting pm's.
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BobC63
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 8:32pm |
cl2ysta1 wrote:
here is the idol thread on RC. you will see MANY people are successful with these guys
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The thread features "Paul B" - he is the guy I mentioned earlier who lives on Long Island (like I used to) and feeds his Idol sponges he harvests from local waters and banana - his Reef tank has been up and running for almost 35 years straight I quite possibly sold him some of his reef stuff when I was a teenager at my first job ever!
You think I'm bad with my "old school" plenums? Paul runs a reverse flow UGF with dolomite gravel - and he has a couple of old, algae covered beer bottles in his tank!
And he had a "cusk eel" (that's a type of brotula, right?) that lived for 18 years
He's a nice guy and it's a great read
Edited by carlso63 - October 13 2008 at 8:49pm
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 9:53pm |
I was just reading Paul's stuff the past couple days, Just goes to show that many old school methods are very successful , but I really admire his perseverance and dedication to the hobby, He only runs his reverse UGF at less than 50 GPH, so its effectively a plenum, he just started doing that before it was coined plenum Oh yeah he also has used long island harbor water in his reef tanks since 1968, ha and we worry about if our DI resin is going bad, just goes to show how hardy many corals are. Even though his methods are old school he has always ran a protein skimmer and Ozone, which I'm sure is part of his success I laughed when he said he did his "every 25 year" gravel cleaning a few years back....
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 10:27pm |
dew2loud1 wrote:
He only runs his reverse UGF at less than 50 GPH, so its effectively a plenum, he just started doing that before it was coined plenum |
Kyle - I'm so glad you pointed out that one of the longest running (private) aquariums in the country uses SPT ( Superior Plenum Technology) so I didn't have to
And 35+ years without a sandbed "crash"... let's see the DSB guys top that!
My first plenum was just a UGF that had one of the lift tubes knocked out of its hole and the tube hole had filled in with sand so I couldn't put it back in. Then I went and pulled the other side lift tube out because with the 1 tube it looked "uneven" so only the plate was left under the sandbed. I didn't want to pull that out because I figured it would turn the water all cloudy to do it, so I just left it in...
I remember that a couple of months later I started getting "0" nO3 readings and at first just figured my test kit went bad or something
I didn't even start with the eggcrate plenums until maybe 10 years ago... before that I would just buy UGFs and toss out the lift tubes
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- My Current Tank: 65g Starfire (sitting empty for 2+ years) -
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