Recent content by Brian Vartanian

I hope the provided picture is sufficient. Im curious if anyone is familiar with this algae, or knows what it is. It has been growing in the tank for a while, and if u cannot tell from the picture does not grow on the rock face, it spans a gap in the rock. It is very flat and seems to have...

ok after i finish finding the rest of the aptasia and getting with the amazing joes juice 8) , how should i go about feeding them so they reproduce, they are a colony polyp right?

i found a lot of things i dont know what they are. i know the first 2 are corals i just dont know what kind, are they doing ok in my minimal lighting they seem to be, they sure opened up. the 3rd is looks like some kind of shell, sorry its blurry, its quite hard and i think there is a second...

if i do something like his, that doesnt act as a protien skimmer does it? or does it becuase of the microbubbles? also if i use my 10gal would that be good for my 55gal tank, i do still plan to keep my aqua clear filter on also.

right now my filtration is 2 HOB filters, one whisper bio bag, the other is an aquaclear. i want some better filtration so i wanted to make a wet dry filter, with a fuge in it. just a small one, i have a spare ten gal tank and my main tank is 55gal. how should i go about doing this? i have...

yea... im gonna have to figure something out, the other 4 fish have been in that tank for probably 5 months, doing wonderful. the ich really started showing up when i changed diets..... i used to feed blood worms and sea weed for the tangs, but then i found this omnivore food with like algea and...

well if i did a qt in the ten i would only put the tang in right? the others have never once shown signs of ich. can i do the hypo on the main tank? cuase i have invertes. lots of blue leg crabs, a snail, emerald crab, condylactus anenome

I had ich in my tank a while back only my 2 tangs, a yellow and a hippo, got it. i put them in a qt with cupramine, and they were doing fine for about a week ( i was checking all the levels, coppper was consistant, and after about a week and a half they started showing signs of stress, the blue...

yea i think its a bristle worm it looks alot like the first pic on this page http://www.chesapeakebay.net/polychaete.htm

well, not exactly feather i dont know how to explain them great, but u know a deacorator crab, the things it uses to stick substrate to itself? it resembled that

i was re-doing aquascape, and from under a rock drops this bright pink/red thing, looked like a curled up shrimp, so i go to poke it and it spazes, it was like some kind of worm with like, i can only describe them as feathers coming out of it, like the things sticking out of a decorator crap i...

ok so im ready to get a qt tank tomorrow, i was gonna get a ten gal, with some cupramine to treat my ich. my baby blue tang, and yellow tang (which has white AND black ich). i am also gonna add some cleaner shrimp to my main tank to eat some of the parasites. i have a 55gal FOWLR its been set up...

ok i went to alot of LFS around my areas questioning about an anenome for my tank, they all said i needed more lighting than what i have (2 50/50 30wats) except for one lady who had the largest selection of anenomes i have seen, she INSISTED my lights were decent and could house anenomes, just...

well fist off the tang is dead he got stuck to the filter when i was out at the store. 2ndly that stumach thing is really bad for the fish, i had a foxface with the englarde stumach and when i tried it he died within hours, and i barley put any pressure at all. there are delacte organs in his...

for the past couple days i have been noticing my yellow tangs stomach slowy get bigger, now its at least twice its normal size. this afternoon i saw a red liesion or spot on his skin. he hides under rocks most of the time, when he comes out he cannot swim he does almost summer salts and cant...