Recent content by Zanotti

Buy LR!!!!!!!!!!!! If you buy your liverock from liverocks.com you will find that this becomes more interesting than the fish. I am constantly amazed at the creatures and things I se going on inside the rocks. Yes, the fish are nice, but the rock and creatures are fascinating. Z

Here's an update: I did a 30% water change and added carbon pads inside the remora skimmer. I also bought a filter attachement that goes on my Aquaclear 400 powerhead. Overnight, the water is clear again, however I lost my Firefish and one peppermint shrimp. The yellow goby is fine. I found...

30 gal cube Tank has been up for about 4 months, no problems. Parameters good, lots of crabs and stuff, but only two little fish ( firefish and goby). I had added some Calcareous alge several weeks ago to feed some of the crabs and snails. It was doing fairly well, although got snacked upon...

Just an update. The rock arrived on Wendesday and were all in the tank by 11am. I had one bag of Agraalive and 1 pound of lfs sand. Ammonia never went above 0.50, dropped to 0.25 for two days and now at 8:30 pm Sunday, they read zero. (I did the test three times to make sure I was right!) Got...

OK for you Where's Waldo Challenged! http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/17021424-L.jpg http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/17021425-L.jpg General consensus is a red mithrax.

Anybody ID this crab? Red Mithrax? Good or bad? (Dont click unless you have high bandwith!) http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16989268-L.jpg http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16989272-L.jpg How about this mantis? http://zanotti.smugmug.com/photos/16800552-L.jpg...

I thought I would post notes between me and liverocks.com about my order this week: Hi Z The weather system moving through the north east has forced me to cancel shipping for two days. All shipments with DHL go through their hub in Cincinnati OH. Your zip code in particular may be a problem...

I just bought a bag of this, a bag of aragonite sand, and two pounds of LFS live sand and added it to my new 30 gal cube. Anybody use Nature’s Ocean® Bio-Activ Live™ Aragonite or did I just spend double for a bag of sand. LR comes this week, so I wanted to get this in to let the water clear...

Excellent. Darin also sent me a PM and email with tracking. Looks like the items will arrive tomorrow. Thanks for the super service. Z

I just ordered some items from Captive Reef, one of AA's sponsors. They promise incredible customer service. I placed the order Tues am and its still listed as pending. I called several times and wanted to increase my order - no answer or reply to my voice mail. Anybody know best times to...

I have a cleaner shrimp in my nano. He's s cute little guy, lots of personality. I change water (20%) every week and he seems to molt about every two or three. He molted yesterday and seems that his antenna got caught and are very stunted. When I got him, he had a stubby couple and after...

35 Hex I thought about going with the one dramatic rock approach, but am now leaning towards asking them for lots of small stuff and making an interesting rock formation against the back wall and out 1/3 of the way into the tank. Nice job on the lights. I am worried about the heat output from...

I've been looking at a 35 gal hex tank and stand. It is exactly the right size for a location I have available, and I really like the idea of having a surround look at a stack of LR in the center. Now I know that this is not optimal, even crazy since the height/ diameter ratio is all...

This is a new clown. Was in my QT for about three days. Was eating well, then this came on in about a day. He has a saddle shaped red splotch over the top of his body. He's listless, won't eat and has his fins clamped. Ideas?

Sorry, I am a bit of a newbie to SW. I have an 8gal nano, about 4# of live rock, clean up crew of 4 red legged crabs and three snails. I had one yellow tailed blue damsel. Everythings fine right? Today I added some mor rock and one additional damsel (same type blue w/ yellow tail). OK you...