Recent content by @knight

thanks, i was going to get a pair of each for my reef tank and wanted to check with others berforehand just to see. I didnt think there would be problems, but wanted to make sure. thanks again

i believe they may actually be a snail species.

anyone ever haveproblems with cleaners and peppermints in the same tank?

theres an LFS in tulsa selling LR @ 18.00/lb and getting away with it. (not to me though)

yeah, those are all great fish, but your tank can only handle one fish right now, i would still stick to 1 (one) hardy fish right now. it won't hurt to get one thats bigger than a guppy ;) but after 1 fish dont add another for a few weeks. The slower you go the better your tank will be.

thats quite a lot for a 25 gal tank. How long has the skimmer been up. Skimmers have a break-in cycle they need to go thru before they become really effective.

IMO a lionfish would look great in a tank with a shark. groupers are nice also and both fish are relatively inexpensive and cool fish to have.

if you wnat to save a buck or fifteen, yoou can buy "Ball Pickling Lime" it is calcium Carbonate and the same thing as kalk. it takes longer to dissolve, but will do the job equally as well. additionally, when you drip, you want to use the middle solution, not the debris on bottom or the film...

oh, a shipment of 5 bags will run you just over a bill to your door.

it is the exact same sand, except it is a little more refined. it does cost more, but is still alot cheaper than your LFS.

i would use egg crate as screen will clog very easily with detrius or other debris. sorry to hear about the fish. when I first saw the thread title, i was worried that you lost him due to stress, and then I would have to eat my words and listen to a bunch of {"I told you so"'s It sucks to loose...

your not in trouble at all! the larger things are called amphipods and the smaller ones are copepods. These are friendly guys and are signal that you have a healthy growing tank. The featherdusters you describe are tubeworms and are filter feeders. they are nice to have as well. The snails...

how'd the peppermint shrimp get gobies??? Ive never seen a pappermint get aggressive, perhaps the gobies got sick or killed by something else and the shrim was just doing his job being a scavenger.

my advice is to inject the ones you can see with kalk and get a couple peppermint shrimps to play clean-up on the ones you dont know about yet. For every one you have, you have 5 getting ready to pop up. these things reproduce faster than rabbits.

my test kits do that. i think the test is accurate. keep adding calcium. it may take a few weeks after dosing before numbers will rise.