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From: tal@ubu.philips.com (Tal Barnea)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: (lights) augmenting fluorescent hood
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:08:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: philabs.1992Apr9.140826.19627
Organization: Philips Laboratories

If you have a standard fluorescent tube, you might try to replace it
with a triton tube. Although the wattage for triton tubes is the standard,
they claim to have double the light intensity. I had the same problem
and replaced the tube with a triton 18 inch 15 watt. There was a BIG
difference (though I can't really tell whether it is "twice as bright").
They are somewhat expensive, around $16.
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
From: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: home made
Reply-To: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:34:29 GMT

If your worried about splashing try making the hood in two parts.
part 1 has the 'door' and a glass or clear (may be tinted) plastic
part 1 is the domed part where the bulbes go # to increese light that
goes into the aquareum put some sort of shiny serface in side the dome
this is how the hood that I boute from the store (K-mart) is set up.
this comes in handy whin cleaning the hood as well. (the part you clean 
is not electrical)
see diagram below

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|					|
|					\____/---|
|pa-1		|-------------------------------------------------|
|	|p-2							|
|	|								 |
|	|						 |
|    |_________________________________________________|""""""""""""=
||_______________________________________________|
\						  \
 \'door'					   \
  \_______________________________________________\

I hope that you understand.

ELF-KIN	life in a tank isnt all that bad, I am safe and feed.
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
From: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: RECYCALED WATER AFTER A CHANGE
Reply-To: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 01:42:18 GMT

IN A way in a way you can but not in a tank. it is very good for watering plants
in that it provieds  natral fertalization.

Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
From: ams@cray.com (Andrew Schmid)
Subject: (F) RO Filters
Followup-To: rec.aquaria
Originator: ams@cherry33
Keywords: filters
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:44:50 CDT


I am looking into buying a water filtering system (under the counter
type) for my apartment, since the recent addition of a 75 gal. tank has
made trips to the store for distilled water too expensive.

My tap water appears to be quite hard (as in off-the-scale), and (as
expected) it's fairly alkaline.  However, one person suggested that the
hardness test I'm using could be showing a false reading based on the
high count of dissolved solids in the tap water.

Now for my question:

	What type of filter/purification system would be best for
	supplying top-off and change water for a freshwater tank?
	(Decent coffee/tea/drinking water would be nice also.)

Currently, I'm looking at a Coleman 525:

	Incoming -> Sediment -> RO -> 2.7 gal. tank -> carbon -> tap

The unit looks pretty easy to install, will fit under my kitchen sink
and is selling for $200.  I've looked at a couple other systems and
this >appears< to be a decent price.

Another alternative would be to use a distiller, but I'm concerned
about the operating costs...

Finally, the only real caveat to this is that it must be something I
can hook up in my apartment and take with me when I move.

Any suggestions or comments will be appreciated, especially from anyone
with some experience specifically with the "Coleman 525" system.

Thank you.

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From: philt@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (philip.tomaskovic)
Subject: Pre-filter setup
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:23:19 GMT


Hi,

I just set up a new small wet-dry filter on my 30 gal reef tank.
The filter is made by CPR and has a pre-filter with "built in"
syphon. It doesn't use separate syphon tubes, but is one piece with
the skimmer/pre-filter.

There's a small air-line hose nozzle at the top of the pre-filter.
You can hook up a airline tube  to it and suck the air out to start
the syphon. They claim that you can then hook the airline to the venturi
of a powerhead to prevent air from building up in the syphon and to also
provide automatic restarts in case the pump goes off.

Does anyone else have a similar system?

The main problem I have is that I have a 802 powerhead in the sump
of the wet-dry.I would think that when I have the airline hooked
to the venturi on the powerhead that it would suck air from the 
syphon, however the powerhead is actually pumping water up the
airline into the syphon!  Does this sound right??? The powerhead is
laying on its side in the pump rather vertically like it would be on 
a UGF; is that making a difference? Or is the problem that my flow from
the powerhead is impeded too much and has to go out the venturi hole 
instead? (I have a 1/2" plastic tubing adapter in it which
connects it to 1/2" ID hose. This seemed the only way to securely
clamp my output hose to the powerhead outlet.)  

I can't see that how the syphon
would self-start via the venturi since there isn't a s strong enough
suction to get it going. Or is this something that takes a long time
via this method?

Thanks

Phil
From: 2frgknobby@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: re: Oscars feeding
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:05:39 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services


Oscars are not a very picky fish as far as feeding is concerned.  It
is most important to avoid over-feeding them.  Unless you have
tremendous filtration and desire to grow them at a rapid rate.  They
are carnivorous, so it is helpful to provide them with a diet of not
only flake, or pellet food, but live food as well.  They seem to
prefer food sticks, tetra, cichlid 10 (Wardleys), and Hikari Cichlid
gold.  I believe the cichlid ten is much messier than the Hikari or
the food sticks, and the Hikari is the cheapest as far as I know.  A
supplement of live food (goldfish, minnows, and guppies) will aid in
the growth and health, but make sure that the live food is healthy.
It is very east to introduce parasites by means of sickly feeder fish.
Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:3002 rec.aquaria:3787 sci.aquaria:804
From: gordon@pinetree.org (Gordon Dewis)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria,sci.aquaria
Subject: [M] Feeding while medicating
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 01:00:39 EST
Organization: Gordon's Pinetree * Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

I'm medicating a yellow tang for what appears to be an internal bacterial 
infection (red patches around his tail and the perimiter of his body).  I'm 
using Maracyn and Maracyn-Two.  When in the regular tank, I usually put some 
romaine lettuce in the tank for him to eat.  I'm wondering if I can/should 
put a leaf of lettuce in the hospital tank with him.  Would the lettuce 
become saturated with the medication and cause adverse affects if injested 
in large quantities?  (As opposed to the amount acquired during normal 
respiration).

I'm doing daily water changes of between 25% and 50% of the volume of the 
hospital tank (10G).  There's a foam filter driven by an airpump which means 
there's no biological filtration.

This is the first fish I've put in quarentine and I haven't found anything 
which clarifies the feeding question.  I've been tossing in a few flakes as 
well, but his appetite hasn't been overwhelming.  I know that when humans 
take antibiotics that their appetite disappears and I'm assuming the same is 
true for fish.  He's only been in for 48 hours or so, but already there's a 
noticeable improvement in his condition.

Thanks

  --G

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From: booth@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (George Booth)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:41:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Assorted Questions .... [F] [M]
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria

In alt.aquaria, erno@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Erno Pena) writes:

    1. Can you recycle water after a water change? 
    { stuff deleted }
    It also conserves water. What do you think?

You probably can't really clean the water up with technology available 
to the hobbiest.  Even if you could, there would not be much return 
on your investment.  How much do you pay for the water you use in your
tank?  How much would all the chemicals, equipment, electricity to run 
the equipment, etc, cost?  How about the replacement cost of chemicals?
How much waste is there when you toss out the used up Poly-filters or
whatever?  How many natural resources are used to create the chemicals,
equipment and electricity used to clean up <n> gallons of water?  It's 
probably more ecologically sound to use your old water in your garden 
and just use tap water to refill your tanks. 

    2. Why don't the aquarium magazines do any equipment testing and 
       evaluation like computer magazines? 

If they were truthful, they would probably lose a lot of advertizers :-)

    3. What are people's thoughts about the book _The_Optimum_Aquarium_? 
       Anyone have good reviews? I plant on redoing my plant tank and 
       somepeople recommended I read the book.

Excellent material but hard to understand.  Takes three or four readings 
to figure out what is fact and what is disguised sales pitch.  Lot's of
good factoids (little facts).  Bottom line - it works for us.  

--------
George
From: kbm8572@rigel.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: (M) Reef Crystals
Keywords: (M) Salt Mix
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:25:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr13.190507.7113@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, mdc@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (barbara.guerin) writes...
> 
>Is the phosphate problem true with Reef Crystals??
>I was thinking of switching brands and trying Reef Crystals.
> 

	I've been using Reef Crystals in my tank for over a year and have
never had any measurable phosphate levels (using Precision Aquarium Testing
kit).


bryan

KBM8572@ZEUS.TAMU.EDU (VAX 9000)
bryan@aero15.tamu.edu (Sun 4/65)
From: janet.rawlins@matrix.sbs.com (Janet Rawlins) 
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: LIVEBEARERS NOT BEARING!
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:31:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
Reply-To: janet.rawlins@matrix.sbs.com (Janet Rawlins) 

    I've had aquariums on-and-off, various sizes, for nearly 20 years
and have always particularly enjoyed the livebearers.  But I've recently
set up a 30-gal. tank with swordtails, platies, and mollies, and am
having miserable luck getting any babies out of any of them.  The
females just won't get pregnant, and there are several males (at least
one of each type fish) present.  I've waited for about 3 months now, and
except for the fish that I've bought "ready to burst", there just
haven't been any females getting pregnant.   I'm also losing a few fish
along to what looks like consumption.  They just get hollow-bellied,
drift around, and die.  I haven't had more than 10-12 fish at the most
in the tank, and have a good external filter, live plants, good algae
growth on the back glass, and a slight addition of aquarium salt to the
water.  The pH is between 6.5 and 7.0 right now, altho several weeks ago
I found out it was nearly 8.0, and adjusted it downward with some
peatmoss tied in a cloth bag.
    Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong, if possible?  I
would love to have a bunch of baby swordtails darting around in the
tank.  (I'm also having similarly bad luck with some guppies in a 10
gal. tank with similar conditions to the big tank.)
     Could the hardness of the water here in Birmingham be playing a
part in my troubles?  I used to live in a town with very soft water
until 10 yrs ago, and used to have guppies breeding like flies. Then I
moved to Birmingham and haven't had much luck with aquariums ever since.
(Kinda makes me wonder what's wrong with Birmingham!)
      Thanks in advance for any answers anyone can give me.
From: SRK8@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: selecting ciclids
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:52:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92097.035238SRK8
Organization: Penn State University

I recently got into this ciclid thing. the main problen i am having is to get a
 good couple. the local pet shop people told me that it is very hard th tell th
e male from the female, when they are still young. they told me that it was jus
t luck if they would form a pair or not. anyway I did buy a pair (I thing pikes
 or some similiar sounding name), but all they ever did was fight a lot. i gues
s they were both males. one finally died so I bought two more, but it was no go
od, so I finally had to discard my ciclids. could anybody help into this. I am
especially interested because I read that ciclids have very intersting breeding
 habits. thanks in advance. Marco Polo
Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:2994 rec.aquaria:3779
From: mpyron@cornea.ophth.bcm.tmc.edu (Milton Pyron)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: plant questions again
Date: 9 Apr 1992 20:36:57 GMT
Followup-To: alt.aquaria

My previous posting got screwed up; I'm new at this.  It omitted a few
things I had written:

I'm trying to determine what I need to start live plants in a 30G long
thats been set up about 6 months.  Its got 7 bala sharks, 2 Geophagus
juruparis, 2 clown loaches, and a pleco.  I understand the fish will
all get fairly large; Will plants thrive in a tank with this number of
fish?  Also, I know the juruparis like to pluck up gravel in their
mouths but they havn't disturbed the existing plastic plants so I'm
thinking they wont disturb live plants.  

Any help would be appreciated.


Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:3113 sci.aquaria:825 rec.aquaria:3942
From: tli@caldera.usc.edu (Tony Li)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,sci.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: FAQ: Changes
Date: 16 Apr 1992 01:10:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: caldera.usc.edu


The FAQ has moved homes and now lives at jerico.usc.edu:pub/aquaria/*.
Please be gentle, it's only a poor Sun 3/60.

You'll be pleased to know that the FAQ is being automagically posted
by a cron script, and that it's being injected directly at USC, which
should give it wide, rapid distribution.

Enjoy,
Tony
co-editor
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
From: enenkel@cs.toronto.edu (Robert Frederick Enenkel)
Subject: Re: Biological Filtration
Summary: nitrate toxicity
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:58:11 GMT

In article <kuo6fuINN7i5@cronkite> greg@enterprise.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Greg George  Area SSE - Midwest Area) writes:
>
>Many fish can live comfortably in levels of 110ppm+ of
>nitrates since these are far less toxic than ammonia or nitrites.

Just curious.  You *are* talking about ppm NO3, not ppm NO3-N, aren't
you?  (Please, pretty-please, with sugar on it, etc...)

Robert Enenkel

Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
From: dhiggs@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (D Keith Higgs)
Subject: Re: (M) Need Advice Starting
Organization: The Ohio State University
 writes:
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:40:44 GMT

Keith
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From: steve@celia.UUCP (Steve Tyree)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: (M)Spawning of Trachyphyllia Geoffroyi
Keywords: reef breeding stony corals marine
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:11:14 GMT
Reply-To: celia!steve@usc.edu (Steve Tyree)
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood


 This is a posting describing observations made on the containers which
developing coral eggs were put in. I had to restart thread due to local
computer problems.
 Have been watching Organism #2, the transforming protozoans which are turn-
ing into circular disks. Some further observations will be listed below. I
am still puzzled as to what these are. 

 - More then half of the wormlike protozoans are turning blackish in a 20
   gallon tank. In a 10 gallon tank, about 25 percent have transformed and
   others are following. None of the protozoan in the 2-1 gallon jugs I have
   are transforming yet.
 - Its possible that this wormlike protozoan transforms into a circular proto-
   zoan at a certain stage in its life cycle.
 - Some small white dots or disks are starting to form on tank glass walls in
   area of blackish transforming protozoan. Will try to collect some tonight
   for micro viewing.
 - If most or half of these are really planulae then I run into the following 
   problems with my prior observations.

     1 - Egg count 500, planulae count 50,000. I did not actually count them  
         while I was collecting them. It was more of a guess based on collect-
         ing and counting fish pelagic eggs from before. Its possible that I
         could have been off by a factor up to 10. Result of max error margin
         would be 5,000 eggs. Planulae count was guessed at after counting
         and transferring 10,000 planulae. This was about 1/2 to 1/3 of the
         total in a certain container. Another container had a lot to. End
         results of error margins 5,000 eggs and 30,000 planulae. Its possible
         that half or less of these protozoans are planulae.
     2 - Planulae observed to be eating colonial diatoms. I saw them crawling
         around diatoms and they appeared to me to be eating. Its possible
         that only a certain percentage of the protozoan were eating and 
         others were not. 
     3 - Why they waited so long before transforming. Possible environmental
         problems in rearing tanks could have delayed the change.

 - The main question I have right now is. Are there worm/slug like protozoans
   which transform at a certain stage in their life to circular shaped proto-
   zoans ? They can move or wiggle a little bit right now. Its still right 
   after transforming. They are from 50 - 150 microns in diameter.
 - Will concentrate all micro observations on these circular protozoans and
   try to discover what they are or what they are doing.
 
Note - With all the life forms and transformations going on in my rearing 
       tanks, I still havent given up hope that their might be planulae or
       spat somewhere in their. I would be happy if just one made it through,
       so I could become familiar with their appearence.

 Steve Tyree - Practicing Reef Breeder
From: howardr@col.hp.com (Howard Rebel)
Subject: Re: ld
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:03:44 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

In article <1992Apr13.171429.29221@news.iastate.edu> xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>It  occurs to me that you people missed the key word in my last post-
>DYSGRAPHIA, a learning disability, - it relates to graphic presentations of
>language. It can (as mine does) include spelling when writing or typing, slow
>sloppy or childish handwriting or an inability to master cursive writing. It
>means that one can't master rules of punctuation and grammer. =taken from
>COLLAGE STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES by James W. Copley, Ph.D.
>This note provided for you as you seem to be the only group who failed to
>register what was being sead.
>
>ELF-KIN 	no comment you wholdn't like it

Perhaps it would be easier to take this/you seriously
if you used somthing other then 'ELF-KIN' to sign your
name.  

Once that is done I suggest that you get some help to
ensure that your postings do not include long strings
of ^H characters.  

The people here have a right to be upset.  Your are 
more or less unreadable.

Howard
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Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:3072 rec.aquaria:3885
From: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: re: any pond builders?
Reply-To: xcz13@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:35:53 GMT

	I may not be a pond buildreer but i acan mail you a copy of an artical on it from AQUAREUM FISH A3S6LSO Irf you are interestind a how to on streams as well.
____________________________________________________________________________________
ELF-KIN  for what is a tank with out fish?
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From: IO20413@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: help
Date: 3 Apr 92 22:17:05 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

I have two 29 gallon aquariums.  I am very sucessful with them as I very rarely
lose a fish and have been succesfully breeding swordtails for over a year now.
I want to know if someone out there also deals with swordtails and if they woul
d like to discuss their tecniques with me.  I am most interested in equipment
also as I have read about these huge filters and exotic filters with things lik
e protien skimmers and the such.  Are they better for my tanks than my whisper
power filters?  If so how much do they cost and can I use them for more than on
e tank, say for a 4 or 5 tank system instead.  Any information one can give me
would be most appreciated.
Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:3035 rec.aquaria:3836
From: oleg@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: tubifex(?) in tank
Date: 13 Apr 92 06:33:19 GMT
Organization: Palo Alto Killifish Loft

In article <1992Apr12.154201.244@cognet.ucla.edu> peterm@inherit.mbi.ucla.edu (Peter Markiewicz) writes:
>  Are you sure you have tubifex in the tank? 

They *look* like tubifex...

>A friend of mine had what
>he thought were tubifex but were actually nematerans (ribbon worms).
>They are very long and red, and are harmless.

How do you tell them apart?  I have never seen a ribbon worm....
-- 
Oleg Kiselev, at home			....use the header to find the path
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
From: kolbush@dialogic.com (Rich Kolbush)
Subject: worms?
Organization: Dialogic Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 14:20:59 GMT

Perhaps someone with past experience can help me solve this recent
problem I have been having with my 55 gal FW tank.

I have noticed over the past week or so that there are a good amount
of white fiberous moving like creatures free floating in the water,
and even more in the gravel.  I feed my Ocsar/Dempsey/Pike a varied
diet of pellets, freeze dried Krille, and feeder fish.  I am under
the impression that this is some type of worm, however, none of the
fish appear to show signs of weight loss or stress.

Are my fish in serious danger?  I've looked in the local shops for a cure
but none of the medications I have seen seem to mention the problem my
tank/fish are having.  Can anyone recommend a cure?

Thanks,
Rich


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