Recent content by zonkers

Just 2 cents on the topic of Caulerpa. I had realized that my LFS was distributing Caulerpa Taxifolia with purchases, & I had collected a fair bit of it in a small separated fuge for a time. Of course, it was growing like weeds. While reading up on macros in general, I found a consistently...

I find this thread...... disconcerting ;) I have been keeping some shrooms for the past 10 months or so, & during the last 3 or so I have had a few offshoots pop up. I had been taking this as a sign of some success & generally a positive indicator about my tank. As I understand it, mushrooms...

I really don't know, & am not claiming to. My thinking is that it's something like picking up a static charge. In my house in the winter time, I can pick up a hell of a static electrical charge from my couch, but only if I'm wearing sneakers. I'm insulated-- I can hold a charge, but it's stuck...

I was reading this article on HLLE & its theoretical causes, & it touched on stray voltage & ground probes. If I'm interpreting this right, there actually is no voltage in the water until the circuit is completed. If there's an exposed wire on the power head, that doesn't mean there's voltage in...

Too true... How big is he? The links I've pasted below comment that he's carnivorous, but mostly likes crustaceans. I suppose as long as there's plenty of pods or if you're feeding him well (frozen mysis), & as long as there's enough space to let the yellow clown goby avoid the watchman's...

I don't have any experience with the pink spotted goby, but your question got me curious. I did some quick searches, & found that depending on the site that comments on them (mostly vendors), they're considered either peaceful or semi-agressive. Just thinking out loud here, but I think that...

Are you keeping any rock in your sump still? I haven't used one, but I understand they can be used as a fuge of sorts to cultivate pods in a fish free zone (?)

Kent Marine's Proscrapers come with either plastic or metal edges, come with short or long handles, & even extensions... The metal edge makes short work of everything :D

I have been running an AquaC Remora Pro with prefilter box (which, yes, is huge & ugly, but effective) with a MaxiJet 1200 since I setup my tank just over a year ago. Unfortunately, I do not have experience with any others to compare with. Makes sound, yes, but never really thought it was...

I have observed a significant difference in amphipod behavior when live rock is kept in a fish-free tank versus being placed in 'general population'. When keeping rock in a fuge, or other times in the past when allowing the main tank to go fallow while the fish were in quarantine for ich, I have...

Running an AquaC Remora Pro with an MJ1200 & pre-fliter box here. This is in addition to an Eheim Professionel II cannister (loaded w/ crushed live rock, Rowaphos & Boyd's Chemi-pure), & a 10g fuge with live rock & macros (NO caulerpa!). BTW I am not anti-caulerpa, per se, just prefer macros...

My understanding (freshwater or salt) is that undergravel filters primary benefit is that they give aerobic bacteria a place to thrive & process ammonia & nitrites. The pitfall has alway been that with traditional usage, it becomes a trap for detritus which must be cleaned out periodically &...

Baby cleaner shrimp? I have had these too, but also, only have one scarlet cleaner. I have seen my cleaner clutching a brood of eggs several times. Will they self-fertilize? I thought these were some kind of copepod... (?)

Perhaps a healthy, well fed anemone provides better protection to the clownfish?

I had also purchased Bob Fenner's Conscientious Marine Aquarist. Another excellent book is Saltwater Aquariums for Dummies-- a great primer to get through that inital overwhelming layer of concepts & terminology. As for who to listen to & who not to, one has to consider-- are the tanks' water...