Recent content by MrsFish

Are there any New England Reef Keepers out there? I was wondering if you could recommend places to buy coral or fish. I am about will be starting to stock my new reef late next week, and would like recommendations for places to buy fish / coral / inverts / cleanup crew. I used to order from...

Is a Heni a banner fish? Sorry for my ignorance!

Does anyone have experience of adding banner fish to a newly establish reef as the main species? I am considering using this fish as my last addition, after a pair of ocellaris clowns, possibly a flame angel (but getting less keen on this species by the minute), a yellow tang, a few shrimp...

:D I was going to set my tank up 7 months ago ... but we put our house on the market and I didn't want to move it. However, we've decided to stay .. so the first thing I did was go to the store!! So, next wednesday, my tank is being delivered and set-up. I asked them to help me set it up...

This is only my third post, so sorry for a silly question ... I love the look of tanks with the deep black background, but have never been able to achieve it with the acrylic backgrounds commercially sold. There's always a place where it doesn't stay flat against the glass and it spoils the...

Just about to set up a new tank - very excited (if you're interested, see my other post entitled "Starting Over"). I really want to go with Metal Halides this time, but the book I'm reading says they are very volatile and a huge fire risk. It sites examples of them exploding on contact with...

Mihai Based on your answer, I will definately go with the protein skimmer- that may have saved me on the water change frequency before. I will look into the ro thing. Very pleased that I don't have to fill it with fish that I basically don't want just to perform the cycle. Not sure I can...

Just a couple of questions .. If I don't cycle with fish, what do I use ... I presume you mean not to cycle with anything?? Why do I need the skimmer if I'm using over 1lb of live rock to 1 gallon of water. I was told that I don't really need the skimmer if I have a good quantity of life rock...

Sorry for the long post, but experience reef keepers will probably find many things in common with this .. I have had a fish tank for as long as I remember. We lived in California, and I had a 70 gallon bow-front tank - originally tropical. It became very boring and so I invested some money...