Recent content by cmc3502

yea, they all love eating. anytime i'm near the tank, they get excited for food. Just was worried, thanks

I've had this guy for a year now but lately he has been doing this odd thing where he goes to the bottom front if the tank and lays down. Any thoughts??  

i have had a biocube 8 tank at work for a year or so and never noticed it being that loud... however, now that it is at home, i can really hear the pump. I had a maxi-jet 160 (i think) sitting around and it was slightly worse. I think it sound louder once it is in the back chamber and...

i always have "stuff" floating around in the water. I have a nano hydor on the left below the skim guard and overflow area. Then on the right is of course the return. I have placed some fiberpoly in the back and it does collect brown stuff, but no matter what i do, i cant get the flow to push...

still doing what they do... i'm kinda surprised since it wasnt a cycled tank. but it took me doing alot of water changes and using prime. I have the hatchery going as well in a closet that has a light come on with a timer at night, so i dont have to see it when i'm awake. They have actually...

just checked again... what would say the reading is..?

cant find a name in the search for that.. is that spelled correctly?

thanks so much for postings back... I have the water at 76 now...and will prob. leave it there. I've just continued to test for ammonia and will do another water change before bed and maybe one in between now and then. The tank there going in is cycled and of course I plan on testing ammonia...

i've posted this in the seahorse section, but this section gets more visitors for an emergency I just got to wild dwarfs yesterday and have them in a make shift setup til 2m when they go to their pico tank. Right now they are both breathing heavy... because i only have a airstone in there, i'm...

I just got to wild dwarfs yesterday and have them in a make shift setup til 2m when they go to their pico tank. Right now they are both breathing heavy... because i only have a airstone in there, i'm concerned about lack of oxygen, but also i'm guessing the heat will play a part as well...

I need some help. I just got 2 dwarf seahorses and have to keep them at home for the wkend. I have them in a 1 gallon tank with no filteration. Is this OK? Oxygen issues? Daily water change for ammonia levels? no water movement at the moment.

so is my plan of action correct? water change of 15 gallons?

so Im not doing with anything... but what if the PH gets out of wack? is there something to keep it at 8.2 while CAL and ALK are lowering? I plan on going to tomm. to the LFS and get about 15 gallons of water (its a 55 gallon tank) and testing the new water before using. Then doing a water...

I am starting to turn my FOWLR tank into a reef tank and have some water issues. I have a small frag of kenya trees (that come out), some GSP (comes out) and some incrusting gorgonian that won't come out after a month of being in there. So my thought are that my alk and calcium are off and i...

I have the following readings right now in my tank and I always thought the calcium and alk balanced off each other. 1 up/1 down...etc. alkilinity - 17 (should be 10-12) PH - 7.4 (really low) calcium - 520 (little high but OK) what causes this and what can I use to correct this?