Recent content by slickricky

I to have had problems with CCS. Although they never ate any swimming fish they quickly devoured anything that they could get on top of. Snails especially (five or more in one day, once) Hermit crabs seemed to get away from them, but I had an anemone die and it was gone in a few hours. I...

I'm not familiar with these fish 1 foxface rabbit, 1 rock beauty, 1 doctor fish are you sure it didn't get eaten?

It is now completely dead, but I'd like to get another one at some point. But of course this time I'd like it to live. All tests showed the water was fine, and it was kept in a very stable environment. Parts of it even looked really good while it was dying one branch at a time. As soon as...

I've seen them I've seen them at a fish store I frequent, in the owner's personal tank. It was 250 gal tank and had no corals in it. They also have a reef tank they keep up there, and so it would seem that they possibly aren't reef safe. Next time I go there I'll ask them. They didn't...

Did the algae come off in sheets? ----Yes it definitely came off in little red sheets. Almost looked like plastic. I am not aware of a way to automate a SW watherchange. -----Not sure of an automated way either, but I found this thing. What do you think...

I recently took my tank down and brought my livestock to a store kind enough to take them in. (I did this because I was moving, but was glad that I have a chance to start over) For the last few months of the tank I had a very bad algae problem, and nothing I did seemed to help. In the...