Recent content by jmmiller

Thanks for the help-my clown died.

I cant figure out how to post a picture. I think that the file size created by my digital camera is too large to upload. Anyway, the clown has been in the system for about 4 months. All of the parameters are fine and the tank (72 gal) has been up and running for about 9 months. The other fish I...

]Yesterday noticed a weird spot on the white part of my clowns tail. It is not really a spot, it looks more like a growth on the inside that is red and pussy looking. Today when I got home it was even bigger and now it is coming through the top of his skin and it is white around it. He is acting...

I just bought my first bubble tip anenome and it is doing some weird things. When the lights are off it goes completely into its base with no part of it showing, but when the lights are on it is completely out. Maybe this is normal but I am not sure if I am supposed to have a night light for it...

I am using cupramine and testing the levels with a copper kit(not sure of brand). The ph is at 7.8, but this is what it was in my main ever since I set it up. I got some buffer and raised the level to 8.2 in the main while it was fishless but I didnt do this in the qt because I didnt want to...

Well my clown was doing really well in my qt for a week and the ick went away but today I went into check on him and he was laying on the bottom of the tank breating very heavily and then about an hour later he died. I have been battling high ammonia with daily water changes since I set up the...

I bought the same Ro/di unit as Phyl on ebay with the hose adaptor and it works great. I mounted it on the wall in my laundry room and use the hose for the washing machine for the unit.

Im pretty sure that you can use your main tank water to setup the qt because you are going to be treating it with copper and that will kill any parasite in the water. I did that with mine and my fish were ick free in 2 days. You are going to want to use a sponge or something from your main in...

My tank is currently fishless due to ick(they are all in qt). I got a camel shrimp so that I could have some life in my tank. My question is what do they eat? There are no fish in the tank so there wont be any left overs so what should I do to feed the shrimp?-thanks

I bought this same skimmer for my 72 gal and I never got it to work right. I battled with it for a month and all it did was pump tiny bubbles into my tank. It never skimmed anything. Save your money until you can aford a better one.

I want to add a BTA to my 72 gal tank but am not sure about the lighting. Would this light be suffcient? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=46314&item=4368915715&rd=1

Check out filtersdirect on ebay for a good ro/di unit. I bought one from them and it works really well and was only $100. They also sell different attachments for them so I was able to hook up the filter in my laundry room. As far as skimmers go, I would stay away from a seaclone. I had one and...

I decided to set up a qt. I got a 10 gal with a penguin hob filter with a bio wheel. I treated the qt with copper and my clown and chromis are doing better. I know that I need to keep the main without fish for about 6 weeks to let the parasite die off so my question is about keeping the qt...

I am planning on buying a refractometer? Anyone ever but one on ebay? Or is there any other ones that you can recomend? Thanks

Ive had my 72 gal fowlr tank set up now for about 4 months. At one point I had a lionfish(small), 2 chromis, 1 true perc and a royal gramma in it. I added a bi color angel to the tank and since then have had nothing but problems. The angel died 2 days after I introduced it into the tank. Then I...