Recent content by diverdown69

ROTFLMFAO!!! Nice narrative

You can do it, but the water should be very clean and well-filtered. Some parameters may be interchangeable, but I am fairly certain that you will need a different pH kit. I have two at work...one for freshwater and one for SW. The kits for NH3/NO3/NO2 may be different as well.

Agreed. Boil the hell out of it all first. You may even use a strainer to get rid of any tag along sand. I tried that once...once...and I will never do it again. It turned my water a piss yellow color.

I will show that to my kids tonight and tell them that those are baby Nemo eggs. They'll get a kick out of that!

Nice pic! Has that sort of "Nemo" look to it... :lol: :D

Interesting set up. I asked that because the systems that I have seen for finfish culture are set up to allow the larvae (and even fertile eggs at times) to be removed from the breeding tank through an overflow/skimmer of sorts. Once the eggs are removed from the tank, they are taken to the...

It's possible IMO. My hermits are striped leg hermits and the only problem I have with them is keeping them from climbing out of the tank by using the airline attached to my skimmer. (I know...cheesy design, but it's a work in progress...) The way I usually know I have a dead one is by finding...

What kind of hermits do you have that are so troublesome?

It will probably regenerate after a couple of molts. Most Crustaceans can regenerate lost limbs. Portunid crabs do it all the time when they lose claws (chelipeds).

Honestly, high survivabilities like that don't really surprise me that much. I have heard of survivabilites between 80-90% with Premna and Amphiprion. IMHO, it all depends on the water quality and how well you are able to collect the newly hatched larvae. Speaking of, how do you collect them? Do...

Have you noticed any loose scales on the affected fish? I noticed some on one of my spotfins last night. It may be nothing more than an abrasion from contacting the LR or a chance incidental contact with the warty anemone, but I am watching it closely to make sure that the wound doesn't become...

Everything I have read says that a skimmer is a must in a smaller tank. After seeing the improvements in water quality in my little tank, I would have to agree. I'll make up some nice drawings and instructions once I get the bugs worked out of the designs and make sure that both skimmers work as...

The skimmer I built for my 10-gal tank looks like it is working nicely. It is very simple to construct. I didn't even end up using PVC cement as the parts all fit together tightly. The larger one I made is in testing phase right now and if it works any better than the smaller one, I may modify...

FWIW, I just finished building two skimmers. One is a fairly small skimmer for my 10-gal tank and it seems to be working nicely. I haven't tested NH3/NO2/NO3 yet as I just put it into operation over the past weekend. The other one I built is larger and I am testing it out in a bucket of old...

What kind of survivability do you get from the average brood?