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Originally Posted by JAXFishGirl what is your first fish going to be? i will live vicariously (sp?) through you until my tank is ready :) Depending on what my LFS has. My wife wants a pair of clowns and maybe a RBTA, maybe a few chromis to give my tank some life, since it has none.... what...

wow man its looking great... do you have a full tank shot?

Originally Posted by ricericebaby ya man, mine was sshy at first, now when i put my hand in the tank he will come up and "surf" on my hand!!! Captain is his name haha he loves the attenion, its the best during feeding time, you can see how damn fast they are!!! Dude, I wish.... He is soooo...

you have some incredible skills, both your tank and your photography... ~grace

Originally Posted by JAXFishGirl i tested ammonia and it came out to 0 again today. i also tested nitrites, read at 0.25. finally moving forward it seems. Sounds like youre about ready...

Originally Posted by lilredwuck I forgot something, how long should I let them soak in the bleach? The ratio sounds a bit strong. Either a gallon of bleach per 5 or 10 gallons of water? When I think about it in those numers, it does sound strong..

Originally Posted by lilredwuck On the bleaching, What ratio bleach to water should I use? I would say 1-10 or 1-5 On the toothbrush idea, when do I do this? at the start? haven't really made it "that" far into my "reading everything" before I do it. But some things are only taught by...

I had an undulated trigger (maybe 4") who beat the crap out of my very mature (26") very aggressive tesselata eel. He more of less went at his tail. I wouldn't suggest putting these two together. just my .02 ~grace

The only thing that I am confused about is that you are at day 22 and really have nothign in your tank and you are on page four, and 200 posts. Im happy to have 15 post three months in.. haha ~grace

wow, this is looking great. I love in wall tanks, when I grow up, this is what I want. ~grace

Originally Posted by BTLDreef Oh, it does work. I scratch up the coralline in my tank about once every two weeks. In my nano I do it a few times a week. What I question is how much it helps with "seeding" live rock to contain beneficial bacteria. I don't think coralline really does all that...

socal, I see your point.. but, my lfs will hold it for 24 hours, but i think you just convinced me to go buy one... ~grace

Originally Posted by BTLDreef I've never found the coralline scraping method to really help seed THAT much.... Originally Posted by nissan577 ok. a good way to help with coraline to grow is get a toothbrush and brush the coraline and it will slowly land small particles i guess they call it...

Originally Posted by socal57che Great. I'm not dumping IE just to read profiles. Hey Mods...can we change this? It sure would be nice if everyone could see this part of ppls profiles. Then we could push people to fill them in. Right now they're kinda worthless...to me anyway. Oh, and I...

Originally Posted by florida joe BTW just out of curiosity how many noobs do you think have taken the time to read the great threads aimed specifically for them in the new hobbyist section I did, almost everything word for word... and have reread a lot of it too.

If I can make a suggestion, I think that this will help. On a medical forum that I am on, the people who have been on the forum for a while will really push the use of the search tab. Every time a NOOB came on and ask the same redundant question, whoever felt the need to answer usually replied...

Originally Posted by Desertdawg Thanks Maggot! 110 is still cool, I won't be to embarrassed it's 15 gallons less.. :lol Thanks Firefighter! The anemone is gone, I don't know if it was low light or what but it's mouth was finally looking super bad, gaped open and discolored so we removed it...

Originally Posted by mony97 So with a nudge from another thread and my love of reading I decided to finally (about time "I know") :) get some books about marine life and the never ending processes that take place with in our tanks to help further my understanding of this hobby and processes...

Originally Posted by spanko I sent Joe a PM the other day saying something to the effect of it gets tiring answering questions over and over. But I guess I will continue to do just that and continue to try to point people to literature both on the web and in book form to help them to increase...

Originally Posted by AQUAPOD 24 oh i dont think you have strong enough lighting to sustain an anemone but idk? could someone else verify this depends on the lights that are in there...