Recent content by atwise21

Okay, a lot of what you guys were saying made sense. I had no idea about the juices in the frozen foods, I was told by the lfs to just take the cube and put it in the tank and rub it between my fingers until the water melted it. Also, isn't 40 lbs of live rock in a little 30 gal tank quite a...

For some reason my nitrate levels are extraordinarily high...at least I think it is. I'm somewhere in between 50 and 110 ppm. I do regular water changes (20% every month), I even went out and spent a butt load of money on a protein skimmer and a canister filter to help with the problem. I...

there are other fish in my main though...i went out and bought a whole set up for a ten gallon qt...spent about a hundred bucks on everything. if the other fish aren't showing any signs of illness, should I take them out anyway? if so, the ten gallon tank wouldn't be big enough to hold the...

He was in my main...nothing else has anything on it, and I don't have a qt set up yet. Is it safe for my emerald crab to eat the dead clown? He ate a shrimp pretty quickly after it died so I figured it might do him some good. What do I need to do to set up a qt, and is there a fast way to do...

I got a Perc from the LFS earlier this month. When I got him home, my wife noticed a couple of white spots on him so naturally I thought "ick!" I have been treating Q-Bert for about a week now and it doesn't work. I've been using "Ick-Attach" He got better for just a few hours and then it...

Pictures too big Apparently, the pictures I am trying to post are too big. I am trying to figure out how to resiz them so I can post them. My kodak digicam takes pictures about 600KB each. After I figure it out, or someone helps me, I will be able to post the pictures.

Apparently the pictures did not post...I will try again.

First and foremost, there are green "sprinkles" on a few of my live rocks. The look like microscopic macaroni. They just appeared on the LR a couple of days ago. The picture is a little blurry but they are about a half of a centimeter in length, and there are several dozen of them. The other...

I recently did some excavating on the bed of my tank. Afterwords, I noticed some critters in the crushed coral that I quickly identified as bristleworms. After doing some reading, I called the wife and put a stop to the copper treatment to kill them off. I'm a little worried though. I was...

so what you guys are telling me is...it isn't necessary to have bio wheels...is a filter even necessary if I have a sump and a protein skimmer with plenty of LR? The LFS told me the best idea was to get a canister filter and then a protein skimmer...the only problem is that I already blew fifty...

what does a sump do? I know nothing about protein skimmers. What I meant about not enough room is that there isn't enough room for anything that I've found on the back of my tank. I haven't checked into the bak pak though. my tank is about two feet wide. the back is already inhabited by the...

Definately a good idea. Even though a 29g tank isn't that big, it is still going to be heavy with all of the LRand water already in it. Also, I've found that with a 29g tank (which is basically what I have), you don't have enough room to do a lot of the things necessary for a SW tank. I'm not...

I recently had a fp clown and a camel shrimp die the same day. Now, my wife told me that while I was at work, the fish were seemingly fighting. The descriptions are in my signature and my parameters are fine. I came home after work at 1 am to feed them (my wife refuses to touch frozen food)...

what about... the problem I am having is that the back of my tank is not large enough to accomodate anything...I was hoping that someone could recommend something that was free standing of small enough to mount on the wall of the tank...anything that doesn't require rim room. Maybe I should...

I have had my tank about a month and a half now. I am wanting to get a protein skimmer so I can introduce an anemone to my clown. I have one problem though. The lfs doesn't have a skimmer small enough for my tank unless I buy a canister filter to open the back up completely. I went on...