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Originally Posted by rlablan I was losing a lot of sand when I was vacuuming. That's why I brought it up. I didn't want to have to keep buying new sand.

I've kept that in mind (having the crabs, etc. clean for me). But isn't 10 days a little early in the cycle to start throwing in those guys?

But what about the fish poo?? It's a 20 gallon hex tank. If my living room would ever get finished being redecorated, the 55 gallon I have sitting idle would be the main tank (in the living room) and the 20 gallon hex (in my basement) would be the quarantine tank. But for the time being I'm...

Hey all. I have a small tank running now with live sand. I've had fish swimming about for a little more than a week now, and figuring it's prob time for first water change soon. But then I got to thinking. If I use a syphon, that's gonna suck out all the sand. Right? What should I do?

Lady in my office moved to another department. After a while, coworker and I joked about why don't we get an office pet to take her place. We joked about getting a little goldfish bowl for the empty desk, but then realized we could actually do that. So we went ahead and got it (our manager's...

Yeah, I've been debating the Dragonet too lately. I took a road trip with my friend this weekend, we went to 3 new stores and each had pretty good sw sections. Each also Sixlines, which I'd never seen before, and each had at least one Dragonet. What I noticed in all was that the Sixline was...

Yeah, the clean up crew is the hermit crabs and I guess the shrimp. A couple people mention the scooter now. Funny cause I probably wanted that thing for like a day, then I saw the Purple Firefish and wanted that instead, then my friend showed me the Sixline Wrasse and I decided that will be my...

Hey all. I'm back! Unfortunately, in the weeks since I last posted, our floors haven't been finished. Not even started :/ Don't ask. We're big procrastinaters in our family. I may have to just find somewhere else in the house to put the saltwater tank, but oh well, that's my own problem to...

What are your thoughts on freshwater dunking? Guy at fish store today told me that they sit their saltwater fish in freshwater for about 5 minutes to cleanse them of parasites and other badies before they put them in the display tanks.

OK guys. I have a slightly different idea for the tank. I'm thinking of replacing the Royal Gramma basslet with a Purple Scooter Blenny that they had at my pet store today, simply because of the switch from aggressive to peaceful nature, and I keep purple in my tank. I've also thought about...

You guys are awesome. Occasionally someone else recommends something else that I forgot the Craig's List guy gave me w/ the tank. The guy gave me a little clear plastic breeding "basket" that hangs on the rim of the tank. It has about 4 little holes in it to let the water flow in and out of...

Well I'm not planning on gettting corals, only inverts would be maybe 5 hermit crabs and the cleaner shrimp

Oh so the shrimp and the hermit crabs will do that?

Which of my fish would use a lot of minerals?

Nah, I think I get it. So I guess my next question is this: With the filter I have and live sand, with the fish listed above, about how often should I expect water changes? And to avoid buying tons and tons of sea salt, how can I minimize this?

Maybe when they see there is a predator they will mate rapidlier to save their race??

Haha, the one about getting what you pay for was in my thread. Nice!

Originally Posted by small triggers and dont forget to check C-list, the bay and how to make home-made equipment,,,sump/fuge's are fairly simple and inexpensive if you make rather than buy... SO what do you have so far??? If I get a sump, does that minimize how often I would have to do a water...

Regarding the mandarin dragonet: I found on the website that they sell copepods for $13. Cool? And, yes, I think I do have a powerhead from the guy who used to have the tank. Nice!

Dang. Thanks for all the input guys. Wasn't expecting this much opinion already. I don't know if it makes a difference to what you guys had in mind but the size of my tank is 48 long deep, 12 inches deep, 18 inches tall. Don't know if this makes a difference when you're talking about it not...