Recent content by teknopanda

u must be magically delicious to eddie because he charges exhorbitant rates for everyone else. i cannot argue that his stuff looks good, but i can't pay 60 bucks for xenia that one of his henchman had the nerve to try to con me into buying by saying xenia is soooo hard to take care of and so...

tropical paradise is the most overpriced store i have ever visited in the bay area. xenia for 60 bucks. southdown playsand? go to home depot. 50lb bags for like 4 bucks. remember it doesn't HAVE to be southdown. it can just be PLAYSAND

i have fiddlers in a beach setup. 8 inches of sand on 3/4 of the tank and it tapers into a shallow water area with an underwater mini filter. the tank is 29g tall. they don't dig holes like they do in nature, but they do spend an equal amount of time on land and water. oh also i put a few large...

:mrgreen: wow i just noticed my sig describes my old old tank. wow i haven't been on this forum for quite a while i guess.

sorry i just realized that this thread specifically said "funniest thing" and my tale is definitely not funny. i also forgot to mention that the guy told me he has no corals. no idea why he was dosing calcium in the first place.

can someone tell me how long in inches their standpipe is for a standard 75 g AGA tank?

coralvue 20k 250 watts bulbs work well with coralvue ballasts. they are tuned to work together and have a higher PAR value when paired together compared to putting the bulb in different brand ballasts. there is a huge thread on reefcentral.com

all fiddlers require a brackish environment in order to live full lives. fiddlers that are kept in freshwater environments will typically live shorter lives. I doubt they will do well in a marine tank, if for any reason, because they need dry land to live on too. It would be interesting to try...

I received 2 captive bred clarkii that I put in an established ten gallon nano that had one damsel. One of the clarkii clowns would stick to the surface and sleep there. The other would stick around corals and behave normally. After 2 months the surface dweller died and now the other clown is...

I'm browsing at an LFS. Customer is talking to an employee, and complaining that he bought Kent calcium from them and now his tank is full of algae. He claims that right after he put the calcium in, the algae started blooming. I try to refrain from butting in, but I can't help it. Me: So the...

if you stick a bio ball where the intake of the maxijet is, your problem will be solved and you will have a bit of mechanical filtration too

back when i was an irresponsible reef keeper i put a domino damsel into my quarantine tank that turned into a mantis tank. in any case i figured the mantis would eventually catch and eat the damsel that had been terrorizing my other fish in the main tank. i witnessed the damsel take a full on...

ok thanks guys. i thought it was some kind of really bad etiquette in discussion forums. i'm not really good with internet protocol and etiquette...like people that get really mad if you accidentally type in caps. what's up with that?? anyways i was going to check out the impeller but the...

sorry for "hijacking" your post Mandarin. i didn't know there was such a thing, so please ignore my post everybody and only answer mandarin's question.

i got punched by a 3 inch long peacock mantis right between the thumbnail and knuckle. it hurt for a few minutes and the area that got hit was numb for half an hour but nothing serious. i don't think they have their .22 caliber punch strength until full grown.