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Ahh, I forgot to mention that I will most likely not be using the garage for my car. My girlfriend and I want to turn the garage into a sort of basement room to increase our living area. I have a parking space directly in front of my house for the car. Clearly I have my priorities in order :D...

The garage faces north, though it wouldn't get much sun either way considering it is covered by a house and a building is directly south of it. So you're saying I should build temporary walls to wall in the tank area so it retains heat? What exactly do you have in mind when you say plastic...

Hi everyone, My name is Gabe. I'm a graduate student studying fungal biology at UC Berkeley. I set up my first reef tank in college in Dallas, Tx. I absolutely loved the Dallas Fort-Worth Marine Aquarium Society, so the first thing I did after getting situated here was look up the Bay Area...

Rusting ships underwater could theoretically help an algae bloom for two reasons: 1) iron rusting in the ocean produces many different iron compounds, some of which are soluble and therefore available to planktonic algae, and 2) iron is often a limiting nutrient in the ocean, so if there is...

I once read through a long thread on RC about a Portuguese reefer who put his tank outside, surrounded by foam on all the sides and bottom, buried in the ground so its temp would be more stable. It was only accessible from the top removable glass panel and filtration was remote through piping...

I just moved to the bay area this past August from Texas. You've got to love the weather here right? :) You're pretty brave for even thinking about putting a tank outside! It was 35 F this December in Berkeley at the coldest. I think it is hard enough keeping a reef tank stable without...