Recent content by obie

JoshF - you spoke of the exact topic I was about to post a question about. Live sand bed with worms, vs an ample population of hermits. Hermits, which are immaculate cleanup for LR and keep hair algae down vs a deep sand bed for worms, which are supposed to be good cleaners and help provide...

I had a dwarf lion that never touched anything other than a live, swimming small fish. I had snails, hermits, brittles, emeralds and he never touched them. It was tough feeding him because he wouldn't take frozen anything - only small live feeders.

My 75G has a builtin overflow box that is in the lower rear corner of the tank. From its bottom, it flows into the sump which houses the skimmer - standard. In the overflow box I've been adding a piece of the blue filter media to help collect waste. In the sump, I have also spread a cloth on the...

Where is the best place to get bristle worms fire worms, and other small sand dwellers? My sand needs to come alive with creatures. I purchased a detrivore package online about 3 weeks ago. That was expensive and 3 weeks later I have no sign of any of the worms or Amphipods. I'm thinking -...

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I just caught a lunare wrasse and a yellow tailed damsel - both of which I didn't think I stood a chance of catching. All I did was wait until they were hungary, tehn I lowered my regular aquarium net in with some food. The first day the damsel swam right to it, one swoop and he was in...

All the lights are on timers, so the environment had no differences in the two days except the food. I tested before I left and did a followup when I got back and saw the closed coral. All params are in line - Calcium was low for the week (250), but before I left it was 380. Phosphate < .1...

Thanks Dennis - I will let them be and post an update when they return!

My star polyps has been the happiest and healthiest coral in my system - it has always been out, always flourished more than all of the other corals. Then this weekend I left for 2 days and came home and its completely closed - its all just stubs! Did my fish get hungry and eat it? Is it...

I bought 90lbs live cured fiji from fishsupply.com. It was $175 + ~ $100 shipping which made it after shipping ~ $3/lb. It arrived in great shape - wide range of sizes - its had lots of purple coraline and what appears to be a type of feather duster worm. Very nice rock, fully cured, no...

I've had a really difficult time with the LaMotte Calcium kit for a couple reasons. The main one being that I find the titration procedure very difficult to read accurately - the procedure is to add the reactant with the titrator until the color turns to purple and then again to blue - well...

So what are you saying, don't use it at all?

One came with my tank equipment. I hooked it up from the start to my skimmer. I've had pretty stable water conditions. However, I've had a difficult time with certain inverts - can't keep a brittle star at all. In investigating the possibilities, I've found the ozonizer to be a real unknown...

Can someone explain the benefits/negatives of an Ozonizer in a reef tank? I haven't founf any real good info on the effects. Thanks a lot.

I'm interested in what people generally feed their corals. I see a lot of emphasis regarding water quality, but not a lot of discussion about proper feeding - yet In Ron Shimek's "Coral Reef Aquarium", he repeats "feed them a lot" many times (in reference to coral). I know that if you get your...