Recent content by MGR201

Well, I guess the best advice is that "the solution to pollution is dilution" so I will do a few water changes over the next week and bring the salinity down along with Ca & Mg. Hopefully, Alk will rise with a little "one part" effort over the week and the colony will reignite its former...

Oh yes and Phosphate reads negligible using Salifert and 0-0.1 using Red Sea.

So I've recently experienced a bit of a problem in my BioCube 29 and I thought I'd toss it to the community for commentary/advice. In the last month I've noticed that my colony of Blue Anthelia (which formerly was almost impossible to kill and had started spreading like a weed throughout the...

PM sent. Thanks Danielle!

About two weeks ago, I purchased a tiny (1/2") Yellow Clown Goby to complete the fish stock of my BioCube 29. After a drip acclimation, I released him into the tank at night to lower the risk of bullying from the larger and more established residents of the tank (including an Orchid Dottyback...

That's the first I've ever heard that Chitons are not reef safe. From most of the blogs I've researched, the consensus appears to be that they are fine in most home reefs (they are algae grazers, although they will slowly consume your coralline algae).

Here are photos of the anemone and the clown with his substitute home.

It is a green Bubble Tipped Anemone. Unfortunately, the rock with Zoanthid colony cannot be moved closer. We are on day 8 now. I figure this means I can get an Anemone Crab (I always thought that the clown would push it out of the anemone but if the clown won't budge from the Zoanthids after...

I purchased a beautiful little A. Percula clownfish for my BioCube but wanted to host it with an anemone. Unfortunately, by the time I found the perfectly sized anemone several weeks later, the clown had become accustomed to nestling closely with a Zoanthid colony. I cannot dislodge the fish...

I initially used NYC tap water for my Biocube. However, I have found that I get substantially less algae when I use RO/DI or distilled water. I tested my tap water in August/September and posted the results on this forum...

At the time I acquired my clean-up crew several of the Astrea snails had small fuzzy red algae growths on the shells. Now, six months later, a few of those growths have transferred to my rock work. The snails sometimes clean each other's shells and their algae seems to have abated but they...

+1 on the astrea snails and hermit crabs. Also, some urchins will eat hair algae. However, the root cause is probably water chemistry and too many nutrients in your system.

I have a Harlequin Shrimp happily cohabitating with a Blood Shrimp in a 29 gallon biocube with no ill effects. From past experience, I do think that coral banded shrimp can become quite territorial and aggressive towards other inverts as they grow larger; therefore, I am not sure that I would...

I am very sorry to hear about your sick fish. Looking at that image of the dying Cardinal in your original post, however, I was wondering why the tank looked so sterile after 9 weeks of cycling. Are you using NYC tap water, RO/DI water etc? Did you leave the lights off for the 9 weeks? I...

Here are some images of my Oceanic BioCube 29 at 4 months (as of October 15th, 2010). Hardware & Filtration BioCube 29 with stock PC lighting and stock pump Oceanic mini protein skimmer in chamber 1 Chemi-pure Elite, Pura Nitrate-Lock and Phos-Lock in Chamber 2 along with Oceanic filter pad...