Recent content by dreamelissa

so after acclimating my neon dottyback I read somewhere that they can eat shrimp... I just so happen to have a cleaner shrimp shrimp and he's my favorite little guy.. I had even asked the owner of my fav LFS if they were safe. he said that they mostly picked at the pest in your tank. my shrimp...

so I got home from my job at 1:30.. am..(-_-) and I felt horrible that I couldn't be home to feed my clownfish again for "dinner" so as I reached for the pellets I noticed my male clownfish swimming face down and he was COMPLETELY pale.. the light came on for the tank and I immediately thought I...

thanks so much! just wanted to make sure. :)

oh okay, alright then just making sure :) lol thank you so much.

oh no I mean like out and about in the tank.. I know they're nocturnal and like to stay hidden anyways.. but I kinda feeeeeel like he's stuck in there? (lol) ...only because those arms were out there catching food for weeks before I knew what it was and it never moved from that spot.. I just...

awesome, thank you so much. definitely just screen shot this so I don't forget anything. and I definitely don't wanna do anything to stress them out. ✌️ thank you!

oh I felt I did. i knew this was gonna a huge responsibility.. but I guess I definitely should have read some more. I fell in love too fast with the hobby.. I'm just glad there's sites like these. and my lfs is amazing.. I go to her almost 3 times a week just to ask her questions and to make...

yeah there's livestock.. we cycled the tank with these rocks and waited 2 months before putting anything in the tank to be safe.. but now I realize that I really want more rocks.. so yeah I was gonna look for cured rocks to put in. I just didn't know if there was a specific amount I should have...

thank you so muchhhhh.. now I'm just trying to figure out how to get him out of there.

oh okay well snappp I have lots more rock to get. I should get it all and settled before my coral, correct?

I'm just curious.. I've seen people pile and pile up the rocks.. I have a 20g and I'm ridiculously new to all this but so far the last couple months have been a great learning experience. we test the water and do water changes and feed according. but I just want to know if we should have more...

we got this live rock from a family friend who was starting with a larger tank again and we were starting our first tank . we've had it for 2 months now and we start seeing these armssssss come out from the rock. anyone know exactly what it could it be? my guess is a starfish of some kind??