Recent content by drobbins

I'm using RO. I havn't checked phosphate or tds levels. I plan on reading up on that. (Are there kits for those?) I wasn't exactly sure what you meant by "what are you feeding". In my tank is a clown, two gobies, 2 shrimp, snails and hermits. I have a leather, polyps, ricordea(sp?)...

(15 gallon reef tank) I've had a bad geen hair algae bloom and am slowly battleing it. I'm thinking about adding a refugiume with some mangrove in it. Does this sound like a good idea? Currently, Im syphoning, pulling, reduced the time on the lights, water changes, and nitrate remover in the...

I actually checked the water the day I put him in and everything was fine(nitrate is a little high but not bad). When you say acclimate for 3 hours what exactley do you mean? Floating him in the bag to acclimate water temp. or actually putting water from my tank in the bag(forgive me, I'm...

I added an Arrow crab 2 days ago. Currently, in my reef tank I have a yellow tang, clown, cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimps, snails and hermit crabs. I noticed tonight that the arrow crab was being eaten by the cleaner shrimp. I'm thinking that the cleaner shrimp is pretty docile. The...

We have a 20gallon reef tank with only 2 fish, several corals, a few shrimp, crabs, and snails, with a Penguin bio-wheel filter. We had some chemical balance problems, and have all that straightened out, but have had two recommendations we can't decide on. One was to do away with the bio-wheel...

I've had this guy in my tank for about three weeks. He seems to have developed little black spots. Any ideas?