The Orange Bam Bam is officially KIA I'm afraid. I can't seem to find a remnant of it anywhere.
I did find the little stalk of the Palau Nepthea that came off its mount. It's been trapped in a...
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The Orange Bam Bam is officially KIA I'm afraid. I can't seem to find a remnant of it anywhere.
I did find the little stalk of the Palau Nepthea that came off its mount. It's been trapped in a...
Well I finally got my order!!! Six hours later we got 8 inches of new snow! But I got the corals home and placed them in my tank.
I was really happy with them, everything was in great shape. I put...
Carmie,
You don't know how true that might be. You should read some of the back and forth e-mails we have sent. I think we are both are starting to feel like the Dahmer Party*.:lol:
I thought...
Yeah peppermint shrimp work as long as you get a gang of three or more. They aren't nearly as effective singularly. Also they don't do well with large aptasia growths. But they do well with finding...
Well here I sit in Oklahoma ... IN A BLIZZARD!
11" inches of snow...4' foot drifts and a white-out condition!! I am wondering to myself... If the weather continues to be bad for an extended...
Oh.. They are at his store. He had to frag to order on a couple of pieces and let them heal. After that the weather came and he won't ship them. I may not get them until spring at this rate but I...
Where are the PIX?!?!?!
Well guys and gals I went to phase II of my Marine hobby now and invested in CORALS!!! Of course as my luck would have it, I ordered from a company in NEW YORK... Check the weather.... Haven't...
I'm gonna retest this stuff today. I think I must have done something wrong. Perhaps the water sample was contaminated by dishwasher soap residue or something.
I have my kids this week end so I...
I finally got my API Master Reef Test Kit today... Early Christmas present to ME.
I don't know what to make of the results:
Ca 400-430
Kh 286.4 ppm (OFF THE CHART)
Po 0.00
Nitrate 40 ppm
My...
Right now I don't have much. I have a turf beginning to grow on the sand and discoloring on the LR. So I think I am beginning to get a growth again. This tank had a BAD hair algae growth which is...
Another lesson learned...
I went to our friends at Reeftopia.com and built a real clean-up crew. I didn't invest into this in my previous tank like I should have. This is what I bought:
12...
I'm in... gonna blast this on my tweety bird!!
B e a u t i f u l !!!!!
I was scared the ammonia would blow up doing this, I think the sump had enough bio-material in it to keep the levels fairly safe. That and the original LR I keep in the tank I suppose. I also tried...
Well Salty,
I needed to get a handle on the balance in the water so I could begin to buy corals and stuff. After another week I think I will begin to look into some polyp cluster or pipe organ...
As a matter of fact I do...
http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k635/mpcolson01/th_BlackHawaiin02.jpg
Thats A Before pic.... When I first set up my tank
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Ah.. finally a good reason to get rid of those nasty damsels.... here mr. isopod... :p
By far the most interesting post I have read in here.... very cool!
LR=live rock
DSB= deep sand bed
Cheato is a algae grass food grown in refugiums
These guys in here have a whole language of acronyms...lol
Count me in on CORAL.. good stuff in there!
For those of you who have been through my ups and downs here in the forums, I was thinking of changing out my substrate from Black Hawaiian to conventional Bahama Sand.
Well I have made the...
Well CarmieJo, It seems a Phosban Reactor would be a better addition for the algae problem. A good call there and far less cash out of pocket. I have a Mag-5 pump sitting here that would run it I...
Hey Carmie...
I'll have to read that article tonight when I get home. Briefly, I am not running a Phosban Reactor. Honestly I don't know what they are. I'll look them up tonight as well.
Since...
I guess the answer is my Ph is always dropping off. I was using an additive buffer from LFS. A Sea-Chem product simply called buffer. It claimed to be able to keep your Ph at 8.3 and never go over...
I'd like some opinions about adding a calcium reactor to my 55 gal tank. I am considering this new fangled and affordable HOB unit from AquaMaxx. I can't find any reviews on it but I assume it works....
Dick,
I was dealing with the owner on this from the sale to the refusal to guarantee the fish today. Just by dumb luck she is the only person I ever deal with in the store.
I DID in fact...
I took the Tang back to the LFS today. They do not have any live guarantee!! Unbelievable!! I have purchased every living thing in my tank from these folks and they say "Sorry, we cannot guarantee...
I'm going to take the dead Tang back tomorrow and see what happens. I think I will use any credit they give on snails. I don't think I will use them for fish anymore.
I never thought I would be...
I live in an area where this LFS is the only one. The last purchase I made was a pair of false clowns. One was fine and the other had Ich and Fin Rot. I put them in QT for 3 weeks or so and got them...
Well it doesn't matter now. The poor fish died over night. The LFS is closed on Mondays so I guess I'll be on their door step Tuesday A.M. with a zip-lock bag.
That fish was one of 4 they had, I...
Carmie, I just mixed a new batch of water for the QT, it's at 1.025. I don't need to run a full water test, the water is only 13 hours old.
I bought a Yellow Tang on Saturday to help me with algae in my tank. I put him in a QT with a piece of algae covered LR to watch him and I find him to be sitting on the bottom of the tank at an angle...
OK, Dick...
Put your thinking cap on for a minute please, mine is broken.
My tank is 36L x 18D how many pounds of sand do I need to make a 3" DSB? I believe thats required for a reef tank so...
You might try Clearasil...j/k!
CarmieJo you certainly have the right outlook on things! You have taken a terribly negative event and turned it into a positive, Good for you!
I have lost my father and a dear family friend to...
I had a micro bubble issue with Danner pumps, these leaks were salt creeps that were driving me nutty. I resolved them by using silicone to seal the face plate edges airtight. I found that they were...
Well that stinks... I started this tank in July. So I guess I need to wait a while. I'll be able to put one in there around January. Probably best anyway. I need to slow my roll a little, Christmas...
I think I was so disgusted that I killed a bullet proof coral that I wasn't in any mood to wait a year to see if it was going to regenerate.
I intend to re-approach the Ricordea Garden plan in a...
Well Salty I know how much you like a good mystery, but the critter has been removed from my tank. The ricordea actually shriveled up about a week after the last post was put up here.
I don't know...
I swear SaltyDawg works for the CIA...:lol:
Good detective work! I often wonder who the heck gives fish their common names... What were they thinking?!
I'm thinking about switching out my Black Hawaiian Substrate to regular sand. It's a passing thought I have every time I look at the photos in this forum. It seems that the sandy tanks are so much...
This is a blind generalization ....
Most electrical cords can be replaced. Exposed wires are not a major issue if you can open the compartment where they lead to replace the leads and SEAL it...
Welcome to TR Sharon! ;)
As far as Test kits are concerned... DON"T RELY ON TEST STRIPS
Order from Marine Depot or some such website an API Marine Test Kit or Master Kit for Salt water. They...
The only issue I had with Aqua Cave was the sales process. You get used to emails to show the order moving to shipping out through UPS and to your delivery. They aren't good at that. I had to call to...
I bought my fixture from Aqua Cave. They are probably a one man operation but the fixture I bought is extremely well made and very bright for my 55 gallon tank.
It has 4 t-5 actinic and a single...
I'm a realist... I would be happy with 8-8. The Steelers should be in the playoffs no trouble. They made it through the suspension of Big Ben, they are all set to roll.
Maybe Charlie Batch could...
So were the players praying for the Bobcat or Brutus Buckeye?
OMG! UTUBE pulled your video! Apparently they from the U!
WOW.... I ran across this a week late.
It still stings just a little, but Ray Lewis made me feel a little better! :lol: