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Do captive raised angles dietary habits and or needs shift as they mature in a reef tank setting? and if so what would be the typical change in eating habits. The Koran is in my primary display tank in the house but since I have several other reef tanks in the garage, I do not feel compelled...

:( Terry that's not hte answere I wanted to hear. I was hoping for the magic food :wink: that would satisfy him and meet his needs to graze on things. Unfortantly I've probably know for about 18 months that he needs to come out. He'll be real hard to get out, he's the last to come up to feed...

Terry I enjoyed your editorial re: angelfish in reef tanks. I have had a Koran and a flame angelfish in my 170 reef tank for several years. Which corals are displayed in this tank has been a joint decision between myself and the Koran with the Koran always having final say and the Koran has set...

I have had good results ordering Rotifers and phyto plankton from: Mountain Corals 537 E. 750 N Ogden, UT 84804 801-782-7937 Their planktons have always arived in good shape via piority mail. If your going to try to grow out the present batch of eggs I would think you might want about 1 galoon...

Marillian, finding quality wholesale will not do you any good if you don't pay them. Because your going to be constantly searching for new ones. Chip you've told me several times you plan to pay for the corals I shipped to you last July. We evan agreed on a payment plan you set up to help you...

Marillian, finding quality wholesale will not do you any good if you don't pay them. Because your going to be constantly searching for new ones. Chip you've told me several times you plan to pay for the corals I shipped to you last July. We evan agreed on a payment plan you set up to help you...

Congraduations, Mountain Corals 801-782-7937 in Ogden Utah sells "Velvet Green" a phyto plankton and Rotifers. They ship 2 day priority mail and their stuff has always arived in good shape. If your trying to raise this batch out your going to want to get at least 3 times as much of the phyto...

Earlier in the day I was doing some cutting away of Xenia overgrowth, fresh water dipping some small rocks to rid of planaria( some of the rocks also had sponges on them) Took my son to practice and returned about 2 1/2hrs later. Water had been clear was now so cloudly I could not see any...

Usually the fry will hatch about 2 hours after lights out and they will be attracted to a dim light in one corner of the tank facilitaing removal. The Banggais will present a problem since they are very active noctural predators. I've spawned and reared both clowns and Banggais but never from...

I believe it was V8 juice that he said he used. He mentioned that 1 to 2 years ago at the MACNA conference. it worked to keep the rotifers going but I do NOT believe he had used V8 enriched rotifers to feed to fry but more as a method of keeping rotifers alive during an algae crash. I was going...

I assume you are planning to cut the xenia loose from there present rocks. You could then use 2 of the lettuce or nori feeding clips with the suction cups and place a tooth pick in the jaws of the clips and compress the xenia against the back wall or you could impale the xenia to hold in place...

I set up a 20 gall tank with 4 inches of 90% new fine grain araganite sand and then added about a gallon of live sand from my 170 to serve as activator. when I replaced the sand in the 170 I used twice as much as I had removed. When I tested the alk a wk later the new tank had an alk reading of...

Been using some NO's with my icecaps for over a year, seems to work fine. The Phillips 40 watt $5.00 daylight delux puts out light at 6500 Kelvin a little yellowish but somewhat similar in color to a 65K halide. By using a mix of 3 daylight deluxes and 1 expensive blue bulb you get a nice white...

One more point - I have a pair of spawning Maroon clowns in a 20 gallon tnak with a deep sand bed that is 100% gulf collected sand.

I've collected a lot of sand from off shore, it seems to work real well, but I usually collect from areas about 8 miles off shore but occasionally in a lot closer. really gets your worm population going. One batch of about 8 gallons had 3 pistal shrimp and a mantis shrimp show up in my tank...