Forum: Marine Fish
03-14-2009, 07:16 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,323
anemone control
aptaisia is under control by a gang of peppermints, just 2 or 3 large ones that i left alone to feed peppermints with their offsprings. the real scourages are the majanos that have rebounded since i...
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Forum: Marine Fish
03-14-2009, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,323
auriga butterfly in my reef tank
bought an auriga 2 weeks ago hoping it would go to work on those pesky anemones (desperate enough to end this headache once and for all). having heard all those advices about how most butterflies do...
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Forum: Marine Fish
03-13-2009, 02:39 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,995
feeding blood worms to your fishies
i've been feeding frozen bloodworms to my fish in the ratio of 25-30% gross daily feed volume for past 5 years. all my fish go nut over the worms including my mandarin pair which won't touch anything...
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Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade (Aquatics livestock related only)
03-09-2009, 01:39 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,200
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Forum: Reef
03-09-2009, 01:28 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,734
toxic cucumbers
i had two red worm cucumbers up til 3 weeks ago, exotic looking things that stretch out to more than foot long and doing darn good job of mopping up craps. anyway took all precautions from letting...
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Forum: Reef
03-05-2009, 12:53 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,328
cost per test
curious to know how many tests one can get out of each $40 test kit. 3 or 4?
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Forum: Reef
03-04-2009, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,237
carbon how much to use
have been user of chemipure for god knows how far back. came into possession of some bulk carbon from brad(untamed) and ian of chem master. question is i've always purposely underfiltrate...
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Forum: Marine Fish
02-25-2009, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,369
how attached are you to your fishy pals
came home today and found my flame angel that i had for 3 years wedged between rocks. now many of you would say it's just a fish go get another one, but for me when i looked at my angel who would no...
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Forum: Reef
02-24-2009, 05:20 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 8,596
what electrical bills?
electricity bills, fish food bills, lfs purchase bills, equipment bills, test kit bills,salt and additive bills. all these fade into background when you're gazing into that watery, wonderous bit of...
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Forum: Marine Fish
02-23-2009, 03:27 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 8,251
psychadelic mandarins
have a pair of mandarins in tank that eat pods all day and slurp up blood worms but won't touch mysis. not sure why but these fat and sassy fish have been with me for last 2 years. never tried...
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Forum: Pictures
02-21-2009, 03:41 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 6,196
purple acro
btw these are solid purple from base to tip, just don't know name of it.
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Forum: Pictures
02-21-2009, 03:16 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 6,196
purple acro
i've considered taking 5 or 6 frags out of my purple acro to the feb frag auction, only concern being my digital camera is screwed up due to water damage and my cellphone camera somehow was not...
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Forum: Reef
02-20-2009, 08:11 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,767
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Forum: Reef
02-20-2009, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,767
how to educate a seagrass filefish
had periodic outbreaks of pest anemones. aiptasias are pretty much put down by a gang of peppermints. majanos are different story altogether, i have so far tried boiling water, various injections...
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Forum: Reef
02-20-2009, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,327
velonia beater
a few hungry emerald crabs should help you trim them down.
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Forum: Reef
02-20-2009, 04:24 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,822
blue palm tunicate
my 2nd try at keeping this one, first time i more or less let it feed on whatever's in water column and it lasted about a month. 2nd time around i target feed the clump using oyster eggs. as of now...
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Forum: Reef
02-20-2009, 04:15 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,702
coral id
it looks like an acan on the mend. good job saving it.
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Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade (Aquatics hardware related only)
02-19-2009, 10:14 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,060
3 ft tek
thanx this is a 3 ft tank and right now i have the original 4 ft t5 lighting it up. yea it's an overkill that's the reason i'm looking for shorter lamps.
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Forum: Reef
02-19-2009, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,184
coldwater tank
had a 75 gal cw tank that i kept outside under porch. stocked it with small coonstripe shrimps, crabs, sculpins and even a 3 inch quillback rockfish. if you resist temptation and keep your bioload...
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Forum: Reef
02-19-2009, 07:39 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,594
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Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade (Aquatics hardware related only)
02-19-2009, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,060
3 ft tek 4 or 6 bulb wanted
my 4 ft sump/refugium sprung a bad leak so ended up putting in place a spare 55 gal replacement tank. now i need a 3 ft tek to light this up. anyone has one they'll part with?
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Forum: Reef
02-19-2009, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,568
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Forum: Reef
02-19-2009, 05:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,568
frogspawn feelers
i seem to notice those sweepers coming out whenever tank's being fed. got careless trying to dislodge lump of shrimp meat near it and one of those ent sweepers landed on one of the cuts on my hand....
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Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade (Aquatics livestock related only)
02-18-2009, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,519
plate corals
i'll take both your plate corals for 20.00 and bring over a big hunk of blue corals for trade. thanx ken
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Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade (Aquatics hardware related only)
02-15-2009, 11:42 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,417
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