Recent content by LavaToad

I have a mandarin for almost 2 years, at first wouldn't touch any frozen but now he's eating frozen brine and the baby clownfish that hatch every couple of weeks... so worst case scenario you can get a breeding pair of clownfish lol

Wow this is pretty crazy

It's a baby tautog, actually a native https://mylifeasamarinebiologist.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/a-tropical-reef-fish-living-in-cold-ocean-waters/

Anyone know where to find columbian catfish/silver tip sharks? I'm thinking of trying a brackish setup with mangroves.

You can put the opening up against a powerhead and it will start pushing up the water

I usually stick a big mirror at one end of the tank so the fish are usually too busy fighting their own reflections to chase the new guy. I take it away once the new fish is a little more bold and comes out

I just got this leather combo a few hours ago, looked beautiful in the store, tentacles on the toadstool all extended and everything. I placed it high in the tank and it started to look limp and shrunken. Thinking maybe the light was a bit strong I went to move it down to the sand and as my...

Oh man that reminds me of that show The Strain

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7TcgGhMeSeU HUGEMONGOUS (not mine)

I'll have to get a better picture later, this is from a few months ago. This thing is starting to turn into a menace, he just bit through the HOB filter intake tube and ate the airstone I had in the corner of the tank

The bird wrasse was the only thing added lately, before that nothing in almost 2 years. He's a fairly large lionfish so I doubt he is eating the amphipods in the tank. I didn't try soaking anything in garlic, I heard that helps sometimes when other fish won't eat. He would eat 4 or 5 full...

I'm kinda stumped on this one, it's a 3 year old lionfish fed mostly frozen silversides but also eats some krill and flake food on occasion. Oh and he ate all my damsels. But 7 weeks ago it just stopped eating. It swims around like normal, there's no rapid breathing but it seems he is...

It will spit out the shell, but yeah that snail is :dead1:

I've been going to Max Reef since they were in Mt Vernon and pretty much everything in my tank is from them. Are they still in business? I stopped by the central ave store this Saturday and it looked like an abandoned building and all the signs and awning was torn down so I didn't even bother...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d1i4ebe5UyY I just saw this on youtube, pretty amazing! Anyone ever try making something like this? I was reading up on it and basically there is an airstone in a pvc pipe that lets the air bubbles pull sand up the tube to create the "waterfall" effect. Not so sure...