Recent content by nizmike

I have a layer of slimey stringy fine cotton like stuff all over my heaters, powerheds, etc. Any idea of what this stuff is? water Paremeters: Temp 80 F sg 1.021 Nitrate 10 Phosphates 0 PH 8.0 Nitrite 0 amonia 0 Thanks Mike

Looking to add another fish. Can someone recomend a good addition? Ideally I would like this final fish to be a bit larger and flashier than what I have in there. Thanks, Mike Currently have - Fish 1. 1 Clarkii Clown 2. 1 Purple Pseudochromis 3. 1 Blue/Green Chromis Inverts 1. 1 Brittle...

Got home from work last night and the fish was dead. Very disapointing. He seemed fine for first 3 days and then died within 24 hours of noticing the abbrasion. Base on the speed of his decline I doubt it was just a scrape. Must have been an infection of some kind. Other fish and inverts...

The fish is not being harrassed from what I can tell. Fish eats well, Vitamin soaked frozen mysis and Brine. Fish was a skittish for the first couple days in the tank...that's when I think he may have scraped against the live rock. He seems to be a bit more at ease the last couple days...

Hello All, I need some advice regarding my pearl scaled butterfly. I added the fish 5 days ago. yesterday I noticed he has what looks like an inch long abbrasion on one side in the upper middle portion of its body. The abbrasion is slightly pink in the very center where it looks like scales...

These guys are telling you that you need MH or VHO lighting to keep Anenimes. You currently have 17 watts...the set-up they are telling you to get puts out several hundred watts. They can also be pricey. Take it slow and stay away from corals and Anenimes until you have the fish only set-up...

With virtually no bio-load, I doubt there is anything to skim yet.

Would I see any benefit from replacing the factory flourecent bulbs that came in my All Glass 55 Gallon Aquarium hood with Ocean Sun and/Reef Sun/Other Type replacement bubls? I am not looking to upgrade balasts, I want to use the same factory hood and balasts. Will I see a significant visual...

Hello All, Last Saturday I purchased an Ornate Wrasse for my 55 Gallon. In the tank I have a clarkii clown, 3 green chromis and a bangaii cardinal. For inverts I have a brown brittle star, Fire shrimp, emerald crab and assorted snails and hermits. I drip acclimated the wrasse for 1.5 hours...

jacare, Your posts are so riddled with typo's they are almost unreadable...Type a bit more carefully. DANG

You can put down the sand first. Just make sure that you push the rock into the sand a bit so that they touch the glass on the bottom of the tank. What you want to avoid is the rock sitting completely on top of the sand, because the sand can get shifted around by the fish and cause rocks to...

Hello All, Tank has been up for about 7 months. Water Reads - Ammonia – 0 PPM Nitrite – 0 PPM Nitrate – between 2 and 5 PPM Alkalinity – 2.5 Meq/L PH – 8.15 Temperature 82 F Specific Gravity– 1.023-1.024 Salinity 31.5 Anything you see that you would look to change for a fish only with LR and...

Check this story out. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapc...eut/index.html Mike

Thanks for the reply. That is disapointing. I really like this fish and plan on trying one again...Is this a bad idea? Any tips outside of live brine that will get them to start feeding? thanks, mike

All water parmeters fine amonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nirate - 12pmm salinity 1.026 Temp 80 55 gallon tank with - 3 green chromis 1 clarkii clown All other fish fine... No visibible parasites or infection. introduced the fish on friday 1.5 hours drip acclimation. It never was able yo get the fish...