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  1. mhoup

    fish sight....

    Originally Posted by Sula Sooooooo..... when I'm buying new and different colored corals, I'm really doing it for the sake of the fish???? :cheer: Yeah....that or more colorful fish....... I can use that as an excuse for the wife
  2. mhoup

    Post pics of your most expensive animal!

    This is the other one.....$85
  3. mhoup

    Post pics of your most expensive animal!

    oopps!! I guess I need a pic.....
  4. mhoup

    Post pics of your most expensive animal!

    Here is my most expensive.....$120
  5. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    Originally Posted by Beth Yes, nice tank. Is it 100gal? How long have you had it set up? You are right to keep the tank sparcely populated with fish. THank you, it is a 125g, I have ad it set up for about 4.5 months. You mentioned before not to use a ph buffer, is that only when there is any...
  6. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    Originally Posted by Beth But just to clarify, .25 can kill fish as well. Just so you know. Any ammonia can and will kill fish. Ok, I didn't realize that...I was responding to exile comment of amonia at 2.0. See, told ya' I have a good idea of knowing not alot!!! Did you see the full pic of...
  7. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    Originally Posted by exile415 that tessala must be a very hardy eel. ammonia should be kept at 0. 2.0 IMO is VERY high. NO...your not reading it correctly....... (point) 25 .25 a quarter of one whole That is not an issues, as I mentioned, I miss read the reading it is at zero now
  8. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    Originally Posted by Beth You can try to offer onece a day, and if he is not interested, then don't panic. Can you post a whole tank shot? He will eat twice a day if I feed him that much...here is a pic of my tank
  9. mhoup

    Lets Make This The Biggest Thread Ever!!

    Originally Posted by exile415 wow MHOUP. thats a great start. i would get some more LR. i think thats crushed coral, if it is. I would change it to live sand. i would get rid of the rock thats not live. i have about 9lbs of that in the back. it's not to nice IMO. I think LR would be better...
  10. mhoup

    ro water or distilled

    Originally Posted by cadavis7 what about underground spring water that you fill up the jugs yourself. It is not something from the store or do you buy it. It is an actual spring that has a pipe running out of the ground with water coming out of it freely. I have well water at my house and...
  11. mhoup

    Lets Make This The Biggest Thread Ever!!

    Can't forget the "new kid in town"
  12. mhoup

    Lets Make This The Biggest Thread Ever!!

    My tank is still new (4 months old) so it is a little bare but.....HEY, give me ideas, I need 'em!!
  13. mhoup

    fish sight....

    Originally Posted by reefiness well incase anyone was wondering i found it out myself fish can see in color. Fish eyes contains about 125 million "rod" cells which distinguish between light and dark and close to 6 million "cone" cells which distinguish colours. Each cone cell contains a visual...
  14. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    Originally Posted by Beth What filters and circulation do you have going in your tank? Do you have a skimmer? That picture with the shrimp cleaning is priceless. From the jaws of death. It reminds of pictures of crocs who hold their own babies in their mouth. That is a great pic, will my...
  15. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    Yeah, the amonia was very very minimal at .25, I think she thought I meant 25....however, I retestd and there is NO amonia in my tank, as Beth mentioned I should not have any. I figured out the problem, I was feeding him every time I fed the others in the tank twice a day, not that it was over...
  16. mhoup

    ERR! "the fish guy said" More help please re: ich

    Originally Posted by ScubaDoo I'll be up your way one week from Firiday night eating a Po-Boy fried shrimp sandwich at Papadeaux's. Nice, I'll buy the sandwich for ya' if you can learn me some fish info!! If you don't mind, look at my thread about our new house and the tank I we are going to...
  17. mhoup

    Starting a QT help

    I hear ya, Ducati makes an awesome bike...I am actually looking for another road race bike to do some track days and start teaching again, i kinda miss it since I've been out of it. BTW, where is Hunter, OK
  18. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    I have no idea why I have amonia at .25, it may be from part of a silver side that was not completly eaten...I just re-tested my water and the amonia is actually at zero, I think I may have read the test wrong because it is the same color today as before, I keep dated records of my tests and I...
  19. mhoup

    BETH, tesselatta question?

    They are as follows; Nitrate - 20 Nitrite - 0 Amonia - .25 alk - 120 sg 1.021 PH - 7.8 The other fish are a Harlequin, a cleaner Wrasse, Clarki clown. He just started doing this last night after I fed him 2 silver sides.
  20. mhoup

    1800 gallon diy

    Sharkboy...That is going to be a very cool tank, I am having something similar built in the house we are building. Please keep us posted as I am definatly interested in your filtration and how everything will pan out for ya'. I was wondering if you could use some type of waterleveler with tanks...
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