Recent content by fishead

i did what you did 4 years ago and now its the size of a basketball

i bought RO and do 20% weekly change in my 75 gal tank, updated my lights to 380 watts vho w/ 2 blue actinics, 1 white actinic and 1 10,000k bulbs on 7 hours a day. water flow is driven by skimmer, 3 powerheads and hang-on filter moving over 1400 gallons an hour. all perameters including phos. =...

day three was good no signs of parisites, fish looks and acts normal. day four, scraped some more hair algea off glass and he freaked out and died an hour later. this sucks.

colors.....ooooh the colors. if you havent tripped you havent seen it but its kinda like purple mixed with moonphase and little furry animals riding guitars through the eye of a.............what?

freelance gynocologist/professional pholosifer/english student.

i think watson 3 is realy Rush Limbaugh. I consider myself a liberal democrate but when it comes to capital punishment i say: two appeals in two years, if you cant convince em, God meet you on the other side baby.

buy a coffin......youll need it eventualy anyway.

my son (18) went through the same thing, as did i. the opposite --- for some reason, (best know to advertising and marketing agents) must have a breif encounter with the bad ones b4 coming to their senses. youll probably do it too,( right of passage, i think) just remember to protect yourself.

stray voltage and meg amps (current) is good thinking. do you suppose he could be trying to shake a parasite?

the pronounciation of ich is ick

most commenly refered to as ich, if you see it spelled ick, rest assured it is the same thing.

i've spent the past several hours researching this black ich and trying to catch less than $75 worth of fish in a tank containing several hundered dollars worth of coral. i spent $75 today setting up a small hospital tank for them. i have yet to catch the first fish and decided it is not a...

that doesnt make sense. i'm almost certain it was housed with other fish before i got it and two months in my tank is longer than recommended QT to check health b4 adding to an established population. what am i missing?

stress. ok but what are the stressers? nothing picks on him. could it be the temp flux.? is this stuff lying dorment in all fish and just waiting to say hello when a fish has a freakout?

my tank was void of fish for over 5 months. tank is 4 years old and full of corals. i bought 4 at the same time yellow tang, coral beauty, manderin and lawnmower.the fish have been in for 2 months. i ve been doing 20% RO water changes weekly in my 75 gal tank and testing perameters every 3 or 4...