Recent content by Kimber

About a month ago, I put a wrasse in my hospital tank so I could treat it with CopperSafe for ich. I also put a piece of live rock from my main tank into the hospital tank, knowing that it would kill most of the stuff on it, but wanting to use it for biological filtration. Well, the fish...

How about adding the blueline pumps from championlighting.com? Thanks--much appreciated! Kimber

Dang. I can't seem to find one of these beauties at any LFS. Anybody know of one anywhere in the Pacific Northwest? I'd be willing to take a road trip, since I have people all over the place that I could visit at the same time.

The only thing I could find in Scott Michael's guide to reef fishes that sounded remotely like that is a Purple masked angel. The scientific name is paracentropyge venusta. As far as reef suitability, he says "can be kept in a reef aquarium, but may nip at large-polyped stony corals and clam...

Anybody ever bought the blue carpet anemone from marinedepotlive? It comes with the disclaimer that it's either very difficult to keep or is a delicate shipper, and therefore does not have the arrive alive guarantee. Naturally, I'm a little hesitant to spend $110 without hearing about others'...

Do you have a cleaner shrimp? If not, get one. They can often control/prevent ich naturally, and it's very cool to watch.

I've decided it's time for me to upgrade my calcium replenishment system to a reactor. I've also recently purchased a RO/DI system. Now I need help picturing how it all works together. My current setup has the RO/DI and 32 gallon reservoir in the garage. The reservoir water is mixed with...