Recent content by zypher

sorry guys, he's passed away...no responses...wish i could've saved him

my hi fin red banded goby looks like he's gasping for air...he's paired with a tiger pistol shrimp currently living underneath a live rock. they're in my quarantine tank for acclimation, currently in there for about 2 weeks both introduced at the same time using a drip for 1.5 hrs...he's been...

so just a quick update..my 55 gallon has 50lbs of dry rock and 40 lbs dry sand enroute to me..my plan is to get another 7 lbs of live wet rock from my lfs to seed as well as a couple cups of live sand from one of his established tanks to seed, protein skimmer is on it's way to me as well..my...

my coworker's friend bought a 90g tank...filled it with tap water, put one undersized heater, 1 severely undersized filter, added salt and went out and bought 4 different kinds of sw fish....this was about 3 days after i let him borrow a couple books on setting up/starting a sw aquarium......

i visited my lfs today to grab some fish food...as i'm walking around looking at the clowns i hear one of the workers talking to a customer who was interested in starting a sw tank...i'm thinking to myself that i had done hours of research and asked multiple questions in other stores and on this...

they're moveable...i'll remove them tomorrow via torch...do you think i have more that i can't see?

oh yea that picture is of one...i have atleast 6 all in different spots...by them selves...not bunched together or anything

found these today...i don't know what they are..or if they're okay to stay..the pictures are a little blurry...they're from my phone

i have a marineland 350 magnum canister filter...i'm wondering if i should use activated carbon in it to help filter my sw tank...are there any pros or cons to this? also i want to use this in combination with a protein skimmer...but every article i read on activated carbon i get mixed reviews...

do they have a pretty good discount on skimmers? or should i just suck it up and bite the bullet?

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thanks jason, i'm glad i asked before going through with it

an acquaintance of mine told me that he uses his blue actinic like 24/7 for his sw system...i do want to get something like a moon light for my system..should i just use my blue actinic light?

stand is temporary...i'm in the process of measuring out and building a custom stand for me to fit a sump and some other things later on

i saw a posting on craigslist for: 55 gallon fish tank Black metal stand Marineland Magnum 350 Canister Filter Marineland Emperor 400 Filter Glo T5 HO 48in light w/ duel t5 bulbs Aqueon heater 200w Marineland Bubbler 10 gallon fish tank w/ light, hood, heater, filter (used this for a...