Recent content by suzstephens

My personal experience with six reef tanks has been that a tank that has been cycled for 6 weeks will still be very raw and unstable. It seems to take about six months for a reef tank to stabilize. One sign of stabilization is for the tank to have gone through one or more nuisance algae cycles...

If your purple and gold fish had a little black around its face and on its dorsal fin, it could have been a Royal Gramma Basslet. While they are often described as easy to keep, I have found them to be quite delicate and no longer buy them. Sad, because they have a neat personality and add...