from PTMC website...
"As one might suspect clown fish start off life as males and only become females later in life when they are larger. Here again, --- change is socially controlled. A male changes into a female only when his female partner is removed and he is joined by a smaller fish. This...
I had prizm skimmer been working good but 6 months ago its not collecting any more cloudy thing..so I decided to just throw it out..its been over 3 months now and has no affect on my corals..it even improve my coral growth..weird but true..I also modified my filter to collect the top water to go...
my prizm skimmer works for the first 4 months then after that it skims nothing, it dont mean that its not working but you can tell if you get dirty bubbles accumulate, but mine no more dirty bubbles whatsoever I even crank it up to almost open, I think skimmer is not necessary as long as you...
Bubble algae is the one you are talking about
<a href="http://www.globaldialog.com/~jrice/algae_page/valonia.htm" target="_blank">http://www.globaldialog.com/~jrice/algae_page/valonia.htm</a> the emerald crab(green in color) supposed to eat this one but if they will burst it then it will spread..
those filter I think will just increase your nitrate, I would put more LR, take out the media but not the one that hold the media, this will protect your fish from getting sucked in..my tank has no filter whatsoever..just plenty of LR and water current..just a suggestion..
anyone know where this small shrimps came from? never seen them before they are just as big as the cope pods, they are nocturnal, orange in color, maybe brine shrimps? anyone have this?..
Originally posted by Richard Rendos:
<strong>Looks nice. Is the red hard coral a pocillopora?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think its an acropora..it just turned darker due to lighting..this was the color when I bought it or similar to...
thx all for comments, 45G bow been up for 9mths, salinity 1.028(a little high but everything seems ok) NO3=0, Nitrate=0, ammonia=0, 2 175W halide, 2 96W actinic PC, rena filter, prizm skimmer, 2 power heads with alternating current..
comments welcome..i have some valonia problem but thats all, some hard blue tip that I frag is now dead due to yellow polyps covering it, i feed my fish once a day and add almost a gallon of water a day..cheers :) :) :)
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