Recent content by Felipe

That's amazing, and quite unfortunate. I guess it would be fun to frag a small piece underwater and bring a litle back home, from the wild. But with the prices I get at the LFS, it doesn't make sense to do that, unless it was for fun. How would one go about finding a reef, though? GPS? Felipe

Although I am in Florida, I have never gotten anything from the ocean. It is illegal, as far as I am concerned, in all state waters. I have been scuba diving and saw some awesome stuff that would be worth bringing home, but decided to not take a risk. The fishing license doesn't let you harvest...

rcsheng Thank you so much for th response. I see what you mean now. As nothing beats actual hands on experience, and I am still waiting for the powerheads I won on eBay 4 days ago, I am playiong with the temperatures. Put a fan there and it stayed at 82 throughout most of the day, with a peak...

Why do you think that is? Isn't natural sunlight the "best" possible light? Felipe

Zoa's mostly, is what I am interested in. Although I also plan on the occasional leather, hammer and torch corals. Felipe www.Felipe-Bastos.com

The LFS guy's logic was this: When he keeps the heater at 82, his MH kick on and raise the temp to 84. So only a 2 degree jump. He said he noticed a max. water temp. If he keeps his MH on 24 hs/day, the temp tops off at 84, so additional lighting wouldn't heat the weater any more than it...

I spoke with a friend at the LFS about this. basically, he told me to turn up my heater, so it keeps the water at 82. So when the sun beats down on it, it will go up to 84, and keep the jump at around 2 degrees only. Sems like a good idea and I am trying that. Felipe

Yah, what I thoguht. bummer. FragMaster, did you see my other thread about sunlight as a light source for a 10g prop spcific tank? Since you seem to be into propagation, maybe you would have some insight. Felipe

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inver ... tcrabs.htm Go here and scorll down to the anemone hermit. he was just like that, in a standard grey shell.

He looked like this, except he did not have any anemones on his shell. I am a BUG fan of hermit crabs and take very good care of mine, sometimes even spot feed them. My red and blue legged have grown pretty big, and I recently got a Halloween one. I thought the white one would be a nice...

I didnt' get a picture while I was there at Ocean Exotics. He was really cool, I should have. Felipe

I found a white hermit at my LFS today. He was in with the live rocks, so i grabbed him and bagged him and when getting ready to check out, one of the guys there told me he isn't reef safe and could potentially eat corals. Anyone have them in a reef? Anyone has more info, or knows where to finf...

Seems like I will have to try that.How do your corals do in the natural sunlight?

I decided I wanted to create a propagation specific tank for corals. I didn't want to have to invest on a set of MH or even PC's so I placed the tank near my window. I live in Florida, so when the sun beams down on it, for aaround 4 hs/day, the temp goes from 78 to around 84. That big of a...

I did, and it seemed like the rubber band was "cutting" through the frag, so I took it off. It may have been a little tootight. how tight is yours? Thanks, Felipe