Recent content by ChrisB

the coral banded shrimp may not be the best idea. In my 75 gallon, he goes for any fish that touches his antenna. since the tank isnt a 30 gallon they have plenty of room to stay away but in a 30 gallon unles that shrimp isnt a natural agressive cbs you may see some tears in the fish. they...

thanks im hoping to get a chiller some time in the next couple weeks... or months. hopefully if i can get the temperature at a steady level so i will be able to keep the lights on as long as i want.

thanks for your help because that at least verifies what ive been thinking. im running the lights a lot longer now so that should raise the ph. the coral beauty was very aggresive to the other fish which cause the other fish to show themselves seldomly. I hate that he died but im glad that...

well i noticed this guy about 5 months ago and for about a month there was no sign of it. his next reapearance he had doubled in size and was a little more acitve. NOw i see him whenever i look into the tank, unless he is molting which will take a week for him to come back out. every molt he...

well i just discovered after doing a 15 gallon water change my ph is only 7.6. My test kit shows 8 but the pet store's shows a low 7.6. This could be becqause of my 15 water change so i will take a test later for reasurance. what should i do just in case my ph is a little off. I noticed that...

well the slainity is 1.025, when i say give or take on the nitrates i say that because it is hard to tell on my test kit to exact but i seriously doubt the nitrates are the problem. ammonia, nitirites, are easy to see the 0. i do water changes weekly about 5 to 7 gallons. the temperature has...

btw i always quarentine fish, i feed every other day, and i cants say im doing anything different from when the tank was in good health

well about 4 months ago i got a small yellow tang... he did fine for those 4 months. about 3 weeks ago, he was acting very strange and didnt eat and by the end of the night was dead... he was doing excellent the day before. i didnt see him in his final hours because of my excellent cleaning crew...

im not listening to the pet store again "just feed it a little brine shrimp itll be fine" well ill try and get soem better food for them, anmd i hope they will make it.

when i went to the pet store the other day they had two real pretty scallops. i baught them and a flame angel and am quarinting the angel and properly (using the drip method) acclimated the scallops for around 2 1/2 hours. after putting them in the tank i waited for a couple hours and target...

thanks, however when i went up there they ran out (ironically cause they usually complain about overstock) so i decided to wait for the nest shipment

what do i need to feed a feather duster. ive read live brine shrimp but could i feed them frozen.

ill try and get a pic if no one can identify it with a description. it is black and white, has red eyes, and is "furry". i cant find a dominant claw, though it may have one. it only scrapes its claw on the liverock and then sticks it in his mouth and repeats to eat so i guess it will eat...

to maybe have a guaranteed pod collection go to http://www.sjwilson.net/reef/ this girl breeds pods and has been for a while. seems fairly complicated but dont expect to just get it done in a day. still wait a year though. And about the inch/gal as lando said it really matters on type...

i ve had one in my 75 for amonth and a halfish. honestly when I came back from a trip i was kinda woried that my family had bought it. The other day i turned the light on at night and my purplefirefish was laying on the ground behind the rock right under the coral banded. I was so mad until...