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lol, it wasn't mr. price was it? he used to teach oceanography at hill high until he retired

looks like one of those health class videos leave em, they are good

I would love to do it too... just gotta get the time to do one

are you using ro water?

there are copper absorbing resins just like for phosphates, so that would be a good start, then use the resins to catch anything that might leach out of the tank or rocks BTW, what kind of tank is it (glass or acrylic)? and was copper ever used in it to treat the fish?

its sad that we don't teach oceanography in our schools, i think the worst part about that is we are a coastal state and have easy access to beaches (with an hour drive) for most of the states population

I was just hoping for something local that i could get some 12" diameter tubing from or if anyone wants to do a G B (not GB) for it to make some deltecs

i checked tap's website and only saw 6 inch diameter, do they have wider tubing in the store?

like a dirty filter sponge from the sump?

so where would you get acrylic tubing around portland?

luckily my condo association pays the water bill... but yes there is tons of waste water, because the ro is always flushing the junk away

thats just my guess... and i exaggerated alot. lol, but i think its prolly around 5 gallons of waste per gallon of good water

its just high in minerals, i always used mine on plants... actually at my old house, I used my waste water to water half the yard and the flower beds just hooked it up to plain 1/4 inch irrigation hoses and added drippers

yes, tons of waste water, look into one of those under sink set ups, they are GREAT if you dont already have one set up that way

it will be real slow from the clean water pipe, and fast out the dirty end... for every gallon of good water i get i have about 20 or more gallons of waste

Thats a huge bummer, it would have been an amazing opportunity for the kids you teach to get a first hand look at what our native life is like and what issues they may face

signal gobies, potters angels, and sunburst anthias that would be a sweet combo for a tank too

its cheap to get magnesium sulfate (epsom salts)

parts of beaverton get water from the tualitin river and haag lake (I think), along with hillsboro and aloha, and I think just part of beaverton but by the time the water gets to you the sediments would mostly settle out, and you might have noticed the difference already if you do have it, because since late june this year the columbia water field has been used to supply as much as 50% of the water supply. Its just bad for me in troudale since I am at the start of the supply pretty much check this map though, it tells you the water districts around the area http://www.tvwd.org/images/service_area_map.jpg and this, unrelated article about contruction, has info on sources, http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/departments/publicworks/utilities/drinkingwaterprogram.aspx

I've had good luck with a lawn mower blenny... he would eat any soft algaes and they really frack people out cause they see it and think its a rock, then it swims away

hummmm... i don't think any of them would be coral eaters, but it does look like the bites i had on corals from a lemon peel angel is it on the inside of the colony, or just on the tips/edges?

grrrr.... right when my water finally clears up from that nasty columbia well water, they turn it back on. and I have no idea why they shut off bull run if its not clear, when the columbia well water comes out of my pipes a nasty tea brown color and clogs my sediment filter on my ro after only 10 gallons of water

what fish do you have? and have you seen any hitch hicker crabs in them?

just make sure you take the pepermints out before you put anything anemone-like in the tank... well anything you want to keep alive

oops, better find someplace to hide