Recent content by Scottm

Bristle worms aren't dangerous, I've never read about any serious reactions to them and rate very low on the list of things that could hurt you in your tank. Foxfaces are the worst in my experience, worse then lions. A cut from a foxface Lo made me sick for 2 days.

just algae, clean it off the glass so you can see through it.

Its hard to tell what the heck it is, is there any way to get another angle on it? Its definitely not aiptasia but I can't tell what the heck it is.

Black out your tank for a few days, keep the lights off and throw a sheet over it. That'll fix it. then you just have to try to fix your underlying excess nutrient problem.

I think its photoshopped

sorry to hear that. Salt water is unfortunately always expensive to do anything the right way, and you quickly find out there is only one right way for many of these things.

Friends don't let friends buy the skilter. If you run an airstone instead of the venturi its not so bad but its still not very effective. I would honestly go skimmerless and just do frequent water changes, thats only if you were not trying to do SPS. SPS are a whole different ball game and...

might very well be a bleached zoanthid.... Its really hard to tell.

I use marine snow with a great deal of success, I have tried DT's but I didn't feel like it was worth the extra money. Then again I don't do much in the way of sps corals.

I have a few scarlet hermits, even after over a year they still like to sit in one spot for long periods of time, I think they might be halfway nocturnal.

yeah, I was thinking you were using stock lighting. I don't know about many softies that are particularly demanding or even rare for that matter.... maybe some unusual sarcophytons but MH lighting would probably be overkill for something like that. Lots of types of Ricordia would work really...

I have various Euphylia corals in my 12 gallon, They can touch and not hurt each other and it makes a striking display with clown fish. Large numbers of colorful zoanthids always look nice and its easy to do in a small tank.

Atlantic pygmy maybe..... but they are iffy with corals.

That setup is a bad idea, It is almost impossible to match the flow rate of the two pumps together. It is best to gravity feed the sump with an overflow.

when you get to the level of a 240 gallon tank how much sump do you really need? Room for your skimmer and a place to grow macro is about it I would think. If you have that now, why not use the equipment you have? You are not going to expand your chemical stability much with 50-60 gallons and...