Recent content by golgi aparatus

Well, I guess I expected it to be green, not a fleshy tan color.

Can someone help me here. I just received a "green leather toadstool" from SWF.com yesterday and it has no green polyps at all. The entire thing is flesh colored , including the polyps. Is it normal for a green leather that is under stress to be this color and then turn green later, or is this...

Wow, OK I had no idea about a hibernation mode. I temp/then drip acclimated them for 2+hours and put them in the tank. They are all rightside up on the sandbed but have not moved in like 5 hours....About how long does it take them to come out of hibernation mode? How long will it take for me to...

I have a question regarding the astrea snail purchased from this site. I just received a "reef package" with 20 or so astrea snails. The bag they were in did not have any water in it...only 20 or so drops of water. Is it OK for these snails to be shipped this way? I have always gotten them at...

In replace of what? One of the blue Plus bulbs? It actually has a great color to my eyes. One the blue side, but too too much as well as having nice florescence. Also the Blue Plus bulbs have a high PAR rating.

So you prefer KZ over ATI? I have been using the ATI Aquablue Special as a 50/50 type bulb and the ATI Blue + for my blue bulb. I have also 1 Geisman Actinic for the 420 supplemental light. What would you replace and with what KZ bulb? I have a 6 bulb setup and I believe I have 4 Blue +, 1...

OK, wow. Thanks alot for the help with the ID of these suckers. I knew they were some sort of pest. I wish we would have discovered sooner, but such is life. I'll pick up some Aiptasia-x and get to work. We'll attach the ones that are affecting other corals first and slowly move on to the rest...

Can you guys take a look and tell me if this is indeed aptasia? I noticed them EVERYWHERE in my father's tank. They don't look exactly like the ones I see online or in my tank occasionally. They have little balls on the end of the tentacles. PLEASE help me identify this as it is choking out all...

Yes, I have a few zoa colonies, mushrooms, trumpet and hammer coral currently. Should I change 2 bulbs a week or what?

Hello everyone. It has been too long since I've been on the boards. You know how it goes in the hobby...I'm back and getting my 75g reef back under control. I need to replace my 6 T-5 bulbs as they are pretty old. First things first, how should I go about replacing them? One a day,week or what...

I need help fast. Somehow the media bag with Purigen in it opened and the Purigen is ALL in my sump. I'm doing my best to drain the sump but and suck out the Purigen but this is proving difficult. Now it is snowing purigen in my DT. I'm doing my best to remove as much as possible. I have done a...

Awesome, thanks Beth. And how and what do you suppose I go about feeding the goby?

should I put some substrate from my DT in the QT for the goby as I perform Hypo? Please help!!

Hello, I have a question regarding the possiblity of performing Hypo in my qt on a new diamond goby. I have performed hypo on all the fish in my dt, however I'm concerned about doing so with my diamond goby as they need a substrate. I have no substrate in my qt per the hypo instructions. Can...

There is pleny of algae for it to eat....