Recent content by Scoot

The hardware

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Hey all. I haven't been on the site for a few years now, I used to have a couple nice tanks and spent years maintaining them - I'm not new to the hobby in any way. This show got me so worked up my girlfriend had to leave the room. Fine - so I've heard they're using already-cycled water (which...

My 2 ocellaris have decided, after THREE YEARS of having both clowns and BTA's, to host in a couple of my 15+ green BTA's. For 3 years they ignored them. A few weeks ago, they started hanging around near the BTA's, then I saw them occasionally swimming through them. Tonight, just after...

3 years ago (or so) I bought a pair of BTA's for a 75G with PC lighting. Yeah, bad idea. One died after a month. The other one shrivelled up to the point it had no tentacles, and was all white. I ordered MH lighting after losing the first one. The remaining BTA started improving...

You'll hate that glass top. I tried one after I lost my 2nd fish from excessive jumping. It kills gas exchange, and moisture /salt will build up on it, and pretty soon you won't be able to see through it - and of course all that stuff is "baked" on, cause you'll have lights right over it...

I've got lots of them, little guys, no bigger than a dime from tip to tip. They're all over in my sump too. My blue trigger will eat them up in one slurp if they get into the water column, but he seems to leave them alone otherwise.