Base rock, live rock, bio-balls, or nothing at all. It the long run it won't matter what you put in the back so long as you keep your tank clean, do regular water changes, feed appropriately, and stock your tank appropriately.
To completely split can take a long time (3-6 months), but they can form a new mouth relatively frequently (1-2 months). In my limited experience with ricordea (two years) I have found that for the average hobbyist letting them reproduce naturally appears to result in larger albeit less...
Originally Posted by kclester
wut ever happend to the clown eggs.....jw
The clown eggs don't seem to make it past three or four days. I am not sure if someone eats them or if the male is unable to fertilize them yet or what exactly is going on. Regardless, I am not ready to try to raise them...
Originally Posted by Garychef1
For your filtration, you said you use AC in a panty hose. Where do you have it in the filter?
I throw it in the back in the first chamber (the left most chamber). It doesn't really matter where you put it.
That is pretty funny. It shouldn't hurt anything as long as there is enough food for them. I have no clue what wild shrimp eat; my guess is they are detrivores and eat just about anything.
My Step Dad had a hermit that was in a shell that had a mushroom attached. During the day when the mushroom would open up and expand it would completely conceal the hermit and the shell and all you would see is this mushroom moving very slowly over the rocks or on the sandbed: it was ninja.
I run the lights twelve hours each day and I have a 36 watt 10,000 K power compact fluorescent and a 36 watt true actinic 03 power compact fluorescent.
I have successfully moved the tank and all fish and inverts survived and are doing well. I did break a few SPS corals, but all of the pieces are living and doing fine as of right now. I should be able to get the 90 gal. up and running within the next month if all goes well.
You would want them in the rock work as close to the lights as possible with that lighting. You can experiment with one on the sandbed to see if it gets enough light to do ok, but I doubt it would thrive there. T5s are awesome for shallow tanks, but a 125 gallon has so much height that I...
Grumpygils has it covered and you can keep as many as you want in your tank so long as you can keep up with the calcium and alkalinity demands and your lighting is good enough!
In my JBJ 24 DX I tripled my flow by putting the powerhead (Maxijet 900) directly behind the hole where the flat head nozzle comes out and replacing the flat head nozzle with a Hydor-Flo head. On the Maxijet I had to add about eight inches of 1" tubing to the intake so that the intake was low...