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If you do go with tangs, be sure to feed nori and other nutritive greens frequently. Both the foxface and the tangs consume vast amounts of algae, and you may not be able to grow enough in the display to satisfy them.

Try to get some pictures and post on the disease forum. Beth is great at identifying this kind of thing.

Yeah, there are two schools of thought on filtration on this forum - canister and not-canister. Each side has its arguments for and against, but the right answer is that if you feed the proper amount of food, do your water changes regularly and police up waste then it probably doesn't matter...

Are the white spots about the size of grains of salt?

Many years ago I inherited a lion (volitans) that only ate goldfish. I tried to convert him to fish flesh, but he was insistent that it had to be goldfish. So I cut open a goldfish and stuffed it full of shrimp, or clam or tuna or whatever I had, and fed the lion like that. He did fine, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by MJTech12 Get your self a good test kit most newbies go with the API cause its readily available and its easy to use test strips are good enough for starters to monitor the cycle once you get a feel for the tank and the hobby you can purchase more accurate kits like...

I have had my RBTA for about 2-3 months. I set it up on a rock island with flow around it and good lighting. First, it went for a walk and tried to feed itself into a powerhead. After I rescued it and replaced it on its island it went for another walk to a nice spot behind the rockwork...

In order for the fan to cool the tank it must blow across the surface of the water -you cannot have a cover on the tank, which would block evaporation. When water evaporates it uses up 596 calories of heat energy, lowering the temperature as a consequence. If the tank is covered so that...

It is about 300 gallons, actually

Quote: Originally Posted by VDtank Right now my tank is only a (FO) so i don't have any lighting schedule...Yeah that is true I need to consider the scaling of jug of ice.... The good thing is this heat in So Cal is going be cooling down by tomorrow. But I'm going to try tonight the fan over...

Quote: Originally Posted by SnakeBlitz33 No need to boil. Simply wash them off in a little saltwater and put in the tank. Im not sure is nitrobacter and nitrosomonas bacteria form endospores, but if they do, there might still be bacteria within those rocks. They don't sporulate, they need to...

Quote: Originally Posted by pooty tang THANK YOU! My LFS that sold me the brown is going to qt all my fish. Meanwhile I have a new 90 gal in just set up and I'm going to let it run its cycle. I'm also going to get rid of some fish. Thank you for not bashing my set up. I got a pretty good...

I'm confused. How did you cycle the material in the buckets - with fish, ammonium chloride or ghost feeding? Also, be aware that you really cycled the rock and the walls of the buckets, so just adding the water from "cycled" buckets did not result in a cycled tank. The bacteria necessary for...

You said that your grail fish was an eel. Do some internet research on how to build a tunnel system for eels using PVC buried in the sand bed - very neat idea, and your eel will be happy, and visible to you. Also, eels are escape artists (I remember chasing a blue ribbon eel across the room...

I wish I had $.05 for every hobbyist who complains that they have "perfect water conditions" (no nitrates, no phosphates) and an algae problem - I would have many much larger tanks. They can't understand how, in the absence of nitrate and phosphate the algae are thriving (indeed, taking over)...

You guys may be right about the shrimp molt. It disintegrated just the way a shrimp molt does when disturbed. Nevertheless, it was an interesting event in an otherwise pretty boring day. One of the invertebrate zoologist s in my department suggested that aliens were trying to establish contact...

Whatever it is/was, it literally fell apart during the past hour. Here is the same polyp, now:

Quote: Originally Posted by Bang Guy Looks like some type of commensal Shrimp. Very interesting! At first I thought it might me one of my peppermint shrimp, but there are just too many appendages.

Almost 40 years in this hobby, and this morning I found something new going into/coming out of/living on my 3 year old duncan. Does anybody have any idea what's going on here? It is in the oral disk of one of the polyps. All of the other polyps are completely normal.

I assume you mean PVC tubes, not acrylic. Otherwise, should work, but remember that the flow rate is limited by the smallest diameter pipe, regardless of how many "Y" fittings create additional cross sectional area. Keep posting the build, it should be fun.