Recent content by francis

Hello everyone! Its great to be back. I hope I am posting in the right section since I am posting from my phone, not sure of the navigations. Its been about three years since I last had my tank and am back on the scene! My tank is just about cycled and was asking for some opinions on tankmates...

I wouldnt buy it, $30 you can get a much larger tank. Add like $30 more dollars you can find yourself a good 70+ gallon tank on craigslist. Don't do it! also might want to mention harder tanks are harder to keep water stable

Here is a image of the little bugger. I saw him yesterday at the base of my cauliflower coral, and today he was on an empty space of my zoas. I don't remember if that portion of the zoa rock was always empty or if he did it but better safe than sorry. He looks fairly interesting considering he...

I actually had a royal gramma! it was so cool to see it turn around suddenly with its mouth wide open to keep the clarkii's at bay. It seemed like it was more susceptible to ich than my other fish so I returned it before it gave me more problems :T haven't had problems with ich since but i do...

what kind of lights are you using? and can you let me know how much you paid for them? I'm in the market for some new lights :x

Hi everybody, I'm having a really hard time finding the last fish to put in my tank and would like some of the communities personal experience and help! Currently I have a 40 gallon w/ 15 gallon refugium stocked with 2 clarkii clowns 1 yellow watchman goby 1 dusky jawfish 2 tiger pistol shrimp...

you have convinced me to rearrange my rockwork and get another goby/shrimp pair. I have a current candy pistol with a yellow watchman but they have their own territory for quite some time. I love when people have tanks that are more naturalistic compared to showpieces. COOL GOBY

aim the powerhead at him and he'll let go

I believe you leave the lights off for a few hours, then shine him with some bright light. he should be pretty slow and easy to catch then

Can someone give me an idea on how to tell if my carpet anemone has been dyed? He is a yellow color but my main concern is that his base is not a neutral color, but is more of a greenish tone matching his head. The LFS says it isn't dyed. That is what it looks like (not mine but very similar...

yes thank you, i was sadly under the impression 1 month or so would suffice :) after a little research im looking at 1 year. thank you!

hmmm how many c. chips do you have in the fuge? I'm thinking of having enough stars that I never have to buy anymore after a given amount. How long would it take for a starfish to grow a leg back? (to decent previous size)

yeah thats a sweet looking goby, makes my yellow watchman look so boring x) when my fish gets separated they usually magically find themselves after a day or two, 40 gallon tank

Does anybody have experience with raising a few starfish in a separate tank to feed to their harlequin shrimps? I am thinking of taking the plunge and buying a pair but I do not want to continually buy new starfish. This system of chopping a arm off and rotating among starfish seems like a very...

I so wish mantis' weren't killing machines, I would love to have one in my display tank. For the harlequin, I always liked how they looked but just imagined feeding them would be too much trouble. You say you feed them 1 leg a week, how long does this last for? And do you just chop off the leg...