Recent content by chele

That's cool. Thanks for the ID. Funny...I actually needed a cleanup crew for my 29 G that is over run with algae and culerpa. There are 11 total. Do you think that's too many for that size tank? Sizewise, they are all smaller than a bouncy ball (shell included).

Disclaimer: Before you lecture, I didn't remove these little guys from the wild. A friend of my daughter's did yesterday and when she realized they weren't the kind sold at the Boardwalk that live in a cage, she brought them to me because I have a salt tank. We're an hr from the beaches, I'm not...

I guess this is some kind of tube worm that appeared one day. It's not out of focus, it really does look like a bubble of gauze. Tough enough to support a snail that took a nap on it one day! The other thing I'm not sure about is over by the zoa's. Like a tube with some wisps sticking out. Those...

OK, so there's a chance that the clown may warm up to the pink tip. That's cool. I read a few other posts about not forcing the anemone to move, so I picked up the zoos and moved them instead. Cost me a sting from "the enemy" anemone So far, so good. Thanks for correcting my thinking about...

Purchased a pink tip haitian anemone and a clownfish from LFS about 3 weeks ago. Trusted lady at the store that told me they would work together. Read enough in the forums to understand that's not goint to happen. Problem I'm having is I have some zoos in this tank, and the anemone has moved...

Actually shopping at a LFS that ran a "buy 2 fish, get 1 free" coupon. Free fish must be equal or lesser value, of course that means you find three $60 fish to get your money's worth. Pretty fish + no Internet + payday = lionfish, yellow tang and 5" long green bird wrasse in a 29 Gallon. OK...

I saw the same ad you did and considered getting the other fish (too far away though). I already have a lunatic, err, lunar wrasse. If you give him some place to hide/chill out, he may stop getting into trouble. Mine adopted a 10 inch conch shell that was in the tank, he just disappears inside...

I thought organics did add to nitrates? It's a 37G with a Marineland Eclipse hood, so I've got flourescent lighting and a wet/dry filter. The hood only has 2" access ports in the rear, so unless it's narrow, I can't hang much on it. I top off the tank as needed and change out about 4 gallons of...

I'll do that to bring up the SG and get my water tested somewhere. My chemicals are pretty old. And I used to test the nitrates before and after I would do a water change to make sure my well water wasn't adding to the problem.

I won't do corals or inverts because I can't get a handle on the nitrates. The cleaner clams were supposed to help, but I didn't detect a difference. They lived for several months, then I started finding open empty shells on the surface. The wrasse was eating well :-) I can't put a protein...

Hi, Can you post a picture of the clown?

SG is 1.018. Nitrates floats between 40 - 80, although I think it spiked when my cleaner clams died. I might try putting him in the other tank and see if he improves. I've never seen dark spots like that, glad to know it's not something my other fish may pickup.

I have a powerhead on my biowheel, but I didn't it was that powerful. I have a larger tank with only a couple damsels. I thought about moving him to get him away from the larger fish, but if it's something he can transmit, I don't need more sick fish. Let me see if I can get better pictures...

Yeah, I figured that one out after I did it. I posted it on photobucket. Can you get to it now?

Let me try to post a picture. they turned out poorly. The white spots are on the glass, not on the fish. I think I did this right... http://s244.photobucket.com/albums/gg23/mpros77/