Recent content by karlas

if you do consider a lawnmower maby you can ask to see if they do eat or not ours eats flake, dried nori, and alge wafers. some lfs will feed the fish in front of you if you ask

please dont add anything else to your tank or your headed for disaster. if you only set your tank up last tuesday it hasnt had a chance to cycle you should cycle your tank first before adding anything to it. the best way to cycle would be to have put 2 table shrimp in your tank and let it go...

if you already have 4 inches of substrate i would leave that alone also with the jaw fish it will use the gravel in the sand to build and support its tunnels. they can use gravel, shell, small stone to do this with.as far as skimmers a prizm may work well for your tank they are reasonably...

i use IO and reef crystals also like them both. the -- has a few more elements for reef set ups but both are very good

if your going with a shallow sand bed yellow headed sleeper gobies will keep it nice and vacuumed for you. maby for variety add a fighting conch or spaghetti worms

there are several types of tube worms i wouldnt worry about it. we have at least 3 or 4 types of hitchiker feathers in our tank just adds to the variety

you should make sure your ammonia and nitrites are competely 0 before adding anything to your tank. the lfs may be testing the water but it would be a good idea to get some kits and test the water yourself also. using the lfs is a good way to double check them or use as a back up. 3 groupers in...

they are getting more and more fish (slowly) to become tank raised. there are places getting into the hobby that farm raise fish and corals. polyps, mushrooms, leathers, bubble corals and severl others are being tank raised. they are getting to where there are 3rd and 4th generation corals being...

sounds like you may have a spaghetti worm. they build tubes in the sand and the rock and the worm lives inside of it they have long thin strands that comb the surface to find food they are very benificial and great detrivores spagetti worm

sounds like cyano to me to very hard to get rid of many things can cause it old lighting over feeding high nitrates poor circulation excess nutrients and undisolved organice heres a small article on it Systems that have problematic amounts of cyanobacteria almost always have some combiation...

your tank may have never cycled. water changes may slow down or depending on how large they were could have started over. best thing is to leave it go throw a piece of table shrimp or 2 in the tank that will cycle it for you. as far as the bacteria helpers like nitramax they can take up the...

nice lookin angels love to see those black percs

this site has tons of stuff on freshwater especially planted tank age of aquariums

if they are setting up on opposite sides of the tank you should be ok with 80 gal they can have there territory and there space but keep and eye on them. we have cleaners and blood shrimp and they even keep there space the bloods stay on the left half of the tank inside the rock where the...

if i remember right the clowns and shrimp may battle over the anemone and try to take it over from each other