Recent content by zen

I have 2 - 250w MH's with 20k ....and I'll never get anything different! as far as the question about wattage on VHO 48" ....it's probably gonna be 110 watts.

I have one and I have never seen her sleep. I call her a female cause she's beautiful ;) She hunts day and night. The funny thing is, I can see the pods hiding in my sun coral colony so she can't reach them. Her name is Mandy BTW :) Good luck with them!

OK, I hear alot of stories about sanitation concerning before working on your tank. Do you wash your hands before entering your tank, or do you just plung in? If you do wash your hands, do you wash with "anti-bacterial" soap? Just a thread I thought I would start to get opinions from everyone...

IMO - only :) Don't suck the sand, get critters to clean that. Get rid of the crushed coral, too hard to keep clean ....as you are experiencing. You'll have to remove everything from your tank, of course to remove the coral. Yes, you can use play sand, but I would definitely get Live Sand too...

I have them in my overflow box. they love fast current. I have a few in my tank but my peppermint shrimp control that for me :) Before I got my shrimp, I would take a small turkey baster and shoot them with hot tap water (please move any and all corals that would get hit by that water). I even...

i don't want to eliminate my population of worms, but keep them "in-check". you see, when i feed my fish and my sun corals, those worms will start coming out the wood work. i don't know how it happened, but my manderine goby was being eaten by about 30 of those worms. i don't know if they...

yeah, thanks, but i am really interested in a fish. those crabs make my wife's head itch. don't ask me why, she's weird that way ;)

what fish, besides a neon dottyback, will eat bristle worms? i had a neon dottyback to control my worm population ,but witnessed him sucking hermits out their shells. how about a sixline wrasse? my tank is very developed and have a ton of pods if a fish you specify needs more than worms in...