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well i gave catching him a shot but failed miserably. i even managed to knock my candy cane coral off the ledge and into a crevice which was really really hard to get him out of without damaging his tissues. he IS doing great so far though. he is very personable and loves to hang out perched on...

Originally Posted by Fretfreak13 Do you plan on trying to train your mandarin onto frozen? I have a 29 that I'm planning to put one in (though I'm looking into culturing pods in a 10 gal like Garick said) but I'm definetly going to at least try to train onto frozen. Check this out. thanks...

Originally Posted by bms Also i bought a "Randalli Shrimpgoby" 4 days ago but about 35 mins after being in the new tank he wandered into the blue damsels living/chilling/sleeping quarters and came out with a chunk taken off his top fin. The rest of that day he just kinda lay on the bottom...

no its definately not a candy cane coral. i have two candy canes in my tank and thins is waay different. doesnt inflate like a candy cane it expands like a mushroom. and it has long tubes (about 2 inches) that each expandale top sits a top. it even deflates and shrivels just like a mushroom, it...

thank you wigle36, i will definately spend some time this weekend looking into this and see if i cant figure out what i can do with it. do i need a light for it to keep copepods (as this will be the main purpose). i may end up throwing some chaeto or other kind of beneficial algae in there but...

hello all, i recently bought a few corals the other week and i cant remember if i got a name of this one and if so i cant remember the name of it. any help would be greatly appreciated! here is a photo. its the one that is purple with the green spots on the inner side. it has long stony tubes...

awesome, thank you for your replies. i think i will take a trip to my LFS this weekend and see what they have. they had a few mandarins there when i bought the clown goby and randalli shrimpgoby. if they still have the smaller of the three mandarins (which was the most active and vibrant looking...

thank you for the confidence and inspiration cranberry. i am going to get a psychedelic mandarin in a couple days and spot feed until i have a noticeable population of pods. the color and curious and peaceful behavior are just what this tank needs.

Also i bought a "Randalli Shrimpgoby" 4 days ago but about 35 mins after being in the new tank he wandered into the blue damsels living/chilling/sleeping quarters and came out with a chunk taken off his top fin. The rest of that day he just kinda lay on the bottom against the glass or rocks and...

this is my livestock: *Yellow Clown Goby (1/2 inch long) *Tomato Clown (3 1/2 inches) *Blue Damsel *Zebra Damsel *Royal Dottyback *10 Bumble Bee Snails *4 Nasaurius Snails *2 Turbo Snails (golfball size) *20 Blue Legged Hermits (various sizes) *1 Emerald Crab *3 colonies of button polyps *1...

thank you for your advice cranberry. the tank is around a year and a half old although most of the live rock is about 5 years old transfered from another tank. i have about 100 lbs of live rock and about 80 lbs crushed aragonite.

so i am thinking of purchasing Synchiropus picturatus, a mandarin for my 75 gallon FOWLR. i have had outbreaks of copepods out of nowhere in the past but currently do not see tons all over the glass at the moment. is it absolutely necessary to have a breeding population of copepods to keep a...

lil guppy, when you say that you had no ammonia spike, did you do as many water changes when you added the sand as you did when you said you cured your live rock in 5 days? because if so all those water changes are only going to keep diluting the ammonia and nitrite levels because you are just...

Originally Posted by BTLDreef I'm with the poster above. What makes you believe this rock is cured? 5 days may not have been long enough to notice a spike in parameters yet. Was it shipped to you in water or exposed to air? especially with all the water changes he did. all that is going to do...

so from doing that process, what makes you say that your live rock is cured?

i use a 20 gallon "long" glass tank..relatively cheap at a store like ***** and probably even your lfs. i also have a 10 gallon backup i can get setup in just a few mins incase something happens or i need two QT's.

hey who doesnt like the smell of the ocean? haha!

wow that is awesome. i love crabs and the thought of having some tight crabs that could come out of the water is just amazing. very nice!

very nice! love all the corals!

im glad i asked instead of just buying it thinking it would work. after weighing in all the factors i just read, i think it would probably be wiser (especially in the long run) to just buy/build one like fraggle said. i figured 6400K was pretty low in the kelvin range because i had seen most...