Recent content by octovox

You are a much more strongly principled man than I. I kept going in to look at them without the intention of buying until I saw another Mandarin in the same tank die and get picked apart by an Arrow crab. It was too much for me and I caved, rationalizing that in this case the well-being of...

I've had success (almost 9 months now) with a pair of Mandarins in a JBJ NanoCube 24. I have a Tom Hatch 'n' Feeder bin the overflow corner surrounded by a big mat of cheato, and I dose the hatchery with pods, rotifers, brine shrimp, vitamins, and phyto. I have a 10g tank that is used...

Once I accidentally left a bag of salt out open overnight, and when I tried to mix it it would not fully dissolve even after 48 hrs with a skimmer in the bucket. I just kept straining out the undissolved crystals with a filter pad and adding more salt until I had the right sg and no crystals. I...

Very cool, thanks. I have a 75g with a 15g sump/fuge and a generic needle-wheel skimmer rated for 125g that seems to work really well. I'm thinking this tank will become a reef soon when Jake and Pete start getting some size on them and I get the ~200g setup I'm planning. When I feed the...

Hi, quick question for you guys and gals. I have a FOWLR puffer tank with a dogface and a porcupine, which is lacking in color... I've been reading that in many cases if you sneak some zoanthids in with puffers who are well-trained to be hand-fed, they will ignore them. So, I bought a cheap...