Recent content by kokid

MAMA! Thanks for the reading materials! It's daunting when entering a forum like this. So much knowledge and material out there that you don't even know where to start! I will certainly read and then re-read. I am sick of being spun around by the LFS. Thanks!

Sorry - feedings: fish: every other day. and hard to say how much.... about 1/20th of a teaspoon of frozen food which looks like chocolate chunks. I feed enough so that they finish 90% of the chunky food within 3 mins. coral/clam: daily. 30 drops of liquid plankton.

My LFS was telling me that bioload is nothing as long as I do weekly tank changes. I had a sneaking suspicion they were just trying to make money off of me. Man. Um... Tank is only 2 weeks old. It was established for 1 week.... Prior to any fish, corals, clams,.... the readings were all...

Hi - Newbie here. Have a 6 gallon tank with 3 fish (2 clowns and another doby), 2 hermit crabs, 2 turbo snails, a coral and a clam. Other than when the tank was being established and there was no livestock in the aquarium, I have a hard time keeping nitrate levels to zero. All other readings...

Hi - while performing a partial water change to my 6-gallon tank, I forgot to unplug my water heater, so it cracked when exposed to the air. I did not realize this until 3 hrs later. When I realized it, there was a smoky, electrical smell in the water and the coral that I had looked "limp" and...