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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (65932)	11/28/2004 7:15:16 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I have been to Reef Central or Salwater is what I would really like. I want to build a completely open free standing aquarium. I think I can have a large sump (90 gal) in another room beside the basement. I was thinking I would use something like Anthony Calfo's coral propagation ledges but just do something similar in two of the corners. Bulkheads up near the top of the display tank for the returns. I will plumb that down through some ABS and across the floor and back up to the sump where I will put the return pump. I intend to suspend the return lines and have them enter the top of the display. Which leads me to a question that I have been meaning to ask bob fenner's crew. If I have these overflows up near the top, side by side, on the display, and my sump is say 5" inches lower than the display, what happens to the water level along the line running across the floor and back up to the sump ? Can I join the individual returns together into one big line ? Rocks has a far simpler question, will I flood the house ? Hey JF, I have been reading your stuff for awhile, I never knew you had fish, imagine that.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (65932)	11/29/2004 7:49:30 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I've found that frogs and freshwater crabs like to escape a tank whenever possible, so unless your tank is completely covered you're likely to find them mummified on the floor. * just playing the part of my devilish naturalist self here... (o: What kind of frogs would someone keep as pets? These must be exotic species, no? Up here, a person would require a permit to keep our native species (frogs, snakes, turtles, etc..) and it's not that easy to get one - so most people who keep herps have exotics (Ball pythons, Fire salamanders, etc). I would think that, especially in southern states, there would be quite a bit of concern about exotic herps getting loose and becoming invasives -- I know this has happened in the case of Red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) in many parts of the U.S. -- see link to USGS factsheet below. With the climate being as hostile as it is up here, we don't have quite so much of a problem as most exotic herps can't live through winter in the wild, although there are actually a couple of locations in southern Ontario where Red-eared sliders have been found living in the wild (bad, bad!!!). nas.er.usgs.gov -croc