Recent content by Ocyurus

*Flips open wallet to display proud baby photos* This is the leader, Top Fish, so to speak. Brothers. Awww, look how he swims, he's a Clown fish! Tomato grow two defined stripes after metamorphosis and then lose one when they mature to adults. Shot right before a routine scuffle.

Very cool, I need to set up something like your page to catalogue my experience. Nice job!

*Dramatic violin music plays* Does it hurt, boy? No, boss. I can't feel nothin'. You're gonna make it, 'shroom, you'll be alright, you'll see!

Just a quick update before I go to bed. I now have four of the young clowns left, they are all well past metamorphosis and eat baby brine shrimp and Spirulina flakes. They really are cute little things, orange with their little stripes and they already have a pecking order, sibling rivalries...

Everything here is mostly back to normal, at the grocery they finally have water and canned goods readily available. The only mark that a storm ever passed is the mysterious absence of any Sterno. The pair don't seem to have been adversely effected by the few days without power, when the...

Hurricane Frances went over over us 3 days after they hatched. We were without power for the last 10 days. I ran all my tanks on battery-powered air pumps for the first 4 days until we heard an ad on the radio that Sears Parts & Service had a dozen generators come in, we raced down there and got...

They hatched last night, we saved almost all from the ravages of their parents and successfully moved them to the larvae tank. Feeding them the rotifer cultures and they are eating good. We will see how they fair after the critical period.

Day 8. I can see the full larvae inside their egg-cases, their eyes are fully developed. Black nerves are visible and the bottom of their eggs are turning silver. I am anticipating the larvae tomorrow, the rotifer and micro-algae cultures came today and I have them set up in the kitchen. I will...

I have the same lighting, could anything other than just softies grow under it? I have kept only soft in the tank but have been considering adding some light tolerant hard corals.

I have run that same set-up for several years with no problems and no pink. My URI 10k are the picture of full-spectrum white light.

Thanks for the tip, it just hadn't crossed my mind to do a 10g water change and use the water I took out to keep the fry separate. I will eventually phase out the water into seawater because that is what I intend to primarily use. The eggs have turned a maroon colour which I am under the...

That's my boy. Sphoeroides testudineus

Thanks for your feedback. The pair are doing the same thing they have been doing for several days. I have a particulate filter in the tank with the fish that was right near their nest, so I moved it to the other end of the tank in case I am not aware when they hatch. I am still not sure that...

I tend to agree with myreeef. Your situation sounds almost identical to one I had a few years back. Thin white tubes coming out of the rocks in numerous places and pulling material either on or through their tubes back into the rock. They never did anything malicious and it would seem they were...

I have had Tom and Cherry (mis-named before we knew their sexes) for 2 1/2 years. They are absolutely the most hardy fish I have ever owned. After our Holocaust, which wiped out everything else including blue-legs, we found them in the top corner gasping for breath. They lived through flood...