Recent content by bigmick88

I have a 75 gallon setup with a 30 gallon sump/refugium. The display has a 1"-1 and 1/2" sand bed. I'm going to be running a bermuda 5c skimmer (rated up to a 400 gallon). I'm curious as to what you guys think I should put in the refugium? I was think miracle mud but don't know if its worth the...

How often are you supposed to feed dendros? I've been feeding every day to encourage growth (They've gone from 3 heads to 8 in only a couple weeks!), however it seems to also be causing slight water quality issues. If I feed them every 3 days or so, will they still grow quickly? Let me know your...

Ok, thanks... so it is normal for them not to eat? the thing is, my lfs got two of them in, one went to me right away and the other went in their tank. Theirs is swimming everywhere, however, there is no hiding spots in there tanks so that could be why.

Hello everyone. I purchased a midas blenny yesterday, did a 2 hour drip acclimation and everything that I've always done before. My question is, is it normal for midas blenny's to just stay perched on a rock all day? He hasn't moved from this rock in since yesterday. He just looks around, he...

She tends to nip the dendros more than anything, I think she realized that if she does, they will eject the mysis shrimp that i fed earlier in the day. She focuses on the dendros though. Really frustrating

I feed either cyclopene or spirnula every day and later in the day I clip nori dipped in garlic guard. The tang is fat, if anything over-fed. I think he nips the dendro's so that they will spit out the mysis in which I fed them earlier in the day. Im getting so stressed over this.

My blue hippo tang suddenly decided she wants to be a coral nipper. I've now seen her nip at my dendro's (mainly these only) my duncans and even once to my torch. My question is, if all of these corals seem to still be very healthy and show no signs of true damage, are these small nips ok? I...

When I feed my dendro's i use the top half of a soda bottle so that everything in the tank doesn't steal from them. Today after feeding them, I removed the soda bottle like usual. Now my hippo tang won't stop nipping at them. WTF! aren't they 100% reef safe?... shes even bit off a couple small...

This morning when i feed my corals... he stayed in the back of the tank by the filter. Every day I feed he usually runs right up on my hand, and today hes acting almost dead. Now hes upside down on a rock and pretty much on his back on the substrate. He doesn't look good at all. He just molted...

I've got 2 powerheads and an upgraded pump... my entire tank has tons of flow

Ok... wil do, hwoever, what about for my gorgonian? should i try to rub of the red slime that is growing on it? For the first time ever, today at around 5 o clock it went in and didnt come back out. it seemed highly stressed from the algae, i could only assume

Hello, my tank is only a couple of months old and I'm beginning to have my second red slime algae bloom. It is beginning to grow on my encrusting gorgonian rock and it is irritating it. What do I do to fix this? Should I try The red slime remover chemical? I don't want my corals to start getting...

Hello, I have a few concerns about my new hippo tang. It is her second night in my tank, 1st day and night she seemed very happy swimming and sleeping with my two clowns. She ate very well today (fed her cycopleeze and H20 life spirnula in garlic) and seems very happy. Tonight, however, she is...

Hello, I really need help on getting my tunze 9002 skimmer to skim correctly in my 29 gallon biocube. I purchased the cube with the skimmer included and can't seem to get it to run correctly. Do I take out the false floor in chamber 2? Because that seems to be the only way the water level in...

Hello, yesterday I purchased my first coral from my LFS. I don't remember the name of the coral, and my LFS is closed on Mondays. Anyways, the coral somewhat reminds me of tongue coral. Here is a pic, a brown almost like fur comes out of it when its happy. Can someone please tell me the correct...