Recent content by megamommatron

thanks, guys. i think i'll try the sneak-the-shrimps-in attack. that sounds cool. and i'd be stoked if they could hang out. the puffer doesn't mess with the big hermit crb i have... so maybe there's a chance.

in the last 20 lbs of live rock i added i got some aptasia. they're really tiny, but spreading for sure. on eplanted itself next to a fuzzy mushroom, and for like 4 days, the mushroom retracted from it until it was a pac-man shape, then suddenly, it was back to round and the little aptasia was...

woo-hoo! i practically killed myself and my little sister to do it, but i now have a 30 gallon sump on my 55 gallon reef tank! it fit (well, meaured like it would fit) up, over and behind the tank. of course, that was all in theory, and we ended up having to scooch the whole tank foward the...

is there any good reason that a sump has to be an aqarium? can i use a big rubbermaid thing? i have a glass tank i could use, but to be honest, i won't be able to move it alone, and no one wants to halp me. (i live on the third floor) so can i use a big tote?

what does a "bleached" anemone look like? does anyone have a pic?

sweet! the little blob that bumped off in the bag was bigger than this little speck-baby, but it's there, right smack dab in the middle of the tank! cool.

what if you got a bowfront? that makes the "corners" less noticeable. or a corner model? i've seen those with the overflow in the back corner that look pretty sweet. acrylic is a pain. mine is bowing, and it's terrifying. seriously.

when i got my frogspawn home, there was a little peice of tentacle (polyp0 in the bag that had detached. i dumped it in the tank, just because. and today, on one of the front peices of rock, an unmistakable neon green blob has appeared. the only other greeny thing is the frogspawn. is it...

does the live rock in the chamber do well with no light? would it be better in the front part of the tank? i suppose both would be best. my understanding is that the bio ball eventually become biologically active and mess up the berlin method. is that true?

is this ok coloration for a BTA? you guys have got me all paranoid now.

i have several colonies of ricordea growing on a some sort of coral skeleton, and somehow it got knocked over, and the skeleton broke right in the middle of one of the ricordea mushrooms. it secreted a bit of mucuos. i know that ricordea can be propagated by slicing them in half, so i'm...

thanks, guys. i'm not really as ... uneducated as my post sounds.. just trying to save typing, i guess... i realize how the light penetraton works for the most part, and i understand that the type of lights and water depth play a factor. they are using the lights over 80 gallons, -my tank is...

my 55 is sort of bowing out on the front side. is it gonna break? does this happen? my frien's is doing the same thing, so i'm hoping it's just... how it goes? i really don't want the thing to explode...

they are selling me the lighting system from their coral tank- i don't remember the specs, but we calculated it and it will be like 4 1/2 watts per gallon- enough to grow all the corals and whatnot that they have there...

i went to my lfs to get more live rock, and was chatting about upgrading my lights... turns out they're switching to all metal halides, so they're gonna sell me the light from their coral tank for $100! how sweet is that?! so i'll have 5+ watts per gallon. I'm so thrilled, i'll save a ton of...