Recent content by kilhullen

The way I understand it, since your tank is not matured (but is cycled) you should do one step at a time... complete your cleanup crew, and then add fish, one at a time (once a week or so to allow your tank to rebalance) because right now, you have a bioload of bacteria only based on the current...

I am getting ready to set up my 100 gal DT but I started my 30 gal QT first. The larger the tank, the easier to maintain quality because tiny changes don't wreck havoc on the water like a small tank would does. Think of it this way... (though this may not be exactly right, it makes sense to me...

Also, I put in a portion of brine shrimp. I forgot to mention that. Are Royal Grammas hearty. The store said they should be hearty enough with being that we cycled our tank already, but there will be a tiny bit of spike, will it be able to handle it? I am feeling real buyers remorse because I...

We cycled our tank with shrimp, and it went through the whole cycle. We tested and had 0 amm 0 trites and .25 trates to which I did a water change. We tested with fish food and no spike happened, so we went and bought 4 small blue leg hermits and wanted to get one small inexpensive fish that...

Originally Posted by reefreak29 upper left hand corner OF course! THere it is! Thank you!

Originally Posted by reefkprZ there is a couple little feather dusters on there too. good deal. those palys are hard to glue as they are super slimy. but they spread relativly quickly. I am trying to learn to identify things... Where are the feather dusters?

Originally Posted by Prk543 Congrats, hearing that makes me wish i had an extra tank handy, then I would offer to take it off of your hands. Throw it in your sump/ or in a container of water from your tank, and call around tomorrow to see if an LFS will take it. If not, there is always someone...

Anemones do move around and tumble until they are happy with their location, but I tend to think with your current setup, this guy won't be happy ever. Better to wait until you get your stock / parameters right and your knowledge up (since this is a new tank to you), and you can get an anemone...

Try one of these methods that are used to catch fish. Use bait to entice him better. I posted this on another thread about catching a damsel. I hope it is helpful: I don't know if it will work - I haven't actually put fish in my tank yet, but I read this on another forum, and also in one of my...

Originally Posted by surbas When you say acrylic do you mean "plexiglass"? How do you mount it to the inside? Can you put a regular background inside the tank? Acrylic is better. Plexiglass is eventually going to get brittle and break, but acrylic is practically immune. They are very...

Originally Posted by jtrzerocool man! i wish we had rain! i live in sac, cali and it was 108 here yesterday! i am so sick of the heat! but the temp is supposed to drop to 103 today!!!!! I know what you are saying - for two years we prayed for rain but it always missed us - now I just want...

OK, we found a place for the fish, now all we have to do is get permission to get back in the school. A LFS about 30 minutes away said they would take them. I will get a little credit for everything but the Oscars, but it wasn't about getting store credit anyway. I tried all y'alls suggestions...

Originally Posted by inawe I live in East Texas...no heat wave here! We are dealing with record low temps and catching up on our rain we lost in our 2 year drought, and according to the lake levels, we've caught up! It has been in the 80's for the past 2 or 3 weeks! Even so, we keep our AC...

Originally Posted by TurningTim You could put an ad up on craigs list and see if someone has a large enough FW tank. I know those folks go nuts for their big fish. They might be able to help or at least temp house them. Good luck! I will give it a shot if everything else in the works falls...

Originally Posted by Robdog696 Let me know if you need someone to take them. I live in Shreveport, LA... that's about a 2 1/2 hr drive. Maybe we could meet halfway or something. You know, if I don't hear something tomorrow we will talk! I would be willing to drive half way or so - it isn't...