Recent content by drummev

Also, I'm so glad your Clown was just sleeping. They are very personable sweet fish. They will quickly learn that you feed them and will 'beg'.

I'm pretty new but have been told to do more frequent 10%-20% h2o changes rather than infrequent huge (50%) changes. Anyone want to chime in? I do 15-20% water changes every 5-7 days in a 24 gal reef tank.

Thank you all for your condolences. It is so sad to see this beautiful fish die and think of the damsel biting him at night in the dark. Before I would replace him, I'd set up a third salt water tank for less aggressive fish. Thank you all for your help too.

Mine sleep on their side at top of tank To look at them in the morning you'd think they were dead. One likes to also sleep near the water intake going to back of nano- I guess he likes the water brushing past him as he sleeps. They take a good 30 minutes to wake up and get active. Could your...

The firefish has passed away The fish died in spite of my best efforts to help him. I think the damsel did attack him, because his tail fin looked bitten. He was a passive sweet little fish. I was told he would be ok with the fish I have but evidently i have one of the more agressive damsels...

thanks for your answers he's hanging on, looked a bit better this after- but back on his side and breathing heavily again.

I have a 24 Gal Nano with 2 clown, one purple/yellow damsel, one red scooter goby and a firefish. The firefish has been in the tank about 1 month and was doing fine. Today I found him on the floor of the tank, thought he was dead. He started swimming but then laid on the rocks. It looks like...

At this point I'm buying copepods and also was told they'd benefit from Roti Feast so I got him a bottle of that too. The Hammerhead is coming back slowly. It's about double the size it was when I moved it. It's still 1/2 as big as when I got it but it seems to be improving daily. The other...

Well, now we know! Thanks for the assistance. I still wasn't 100% sure even after looking at the pictures posted. They both look a lot alike (hammer and frogspawn)

patience is what I've been told it takes and I am working on being more patient than with my fresh water aquariums - they are so easy compared to salt water. My fresh water fish are healthy and happy. They know me and I get so much pleasure from them. I hope to have the same with my salt...

Thank you all- I got it now!

Thanks- I'll get new lights I think I need to upgrade the whole tank, with new lights, add wave maker and a protein skimmer. This ten gal was originally just for fresh water fish. I have an empty 30 gal I can set up and do a fishless cycle and then add the 2 fish and the anemone. I'll get good...

I checked (it was PetSmart) and it doesn't say how many watts. It does say it's floresent and has aluminum backing to give greater light. I also open the blinds to let in sunlight on tank. The tank has fine live sand 2.5 inches of substrate and about 10 lb live rock. Here is the link to the...

Photos of Hammerhead (frogspawn) I'll let the community weigh in on identifying this coral. I've taken 2 photos- one so you can see what else is around him and another closer up. To the Mandarin Goby issue - he is a Green Mandarin Goby - Pterosynchiropus splendidus and yes the LFS said he...

The top one It looks like the one with the Clown fish in it. I actually got mine hoping my 2 Ocealaris Clowns would take to it. The guy I got it from said he had a clown that liked to live in it. I wanted a Pink tip but found out that was dangerous to coral so I have my pink tip in a 10 gal...