Recent content by Arthropoddi

Hahaha, yeah, I care for my animals rather than farm them for a reason.

Looks like it..some fancy chilled set up, probably expensive too just because, lol

Found it.. http://images.smh.com.au/ftsmh/ffximage/2009/12/14/sea_urchin_wideweb__470x357,0.jpg If you search sea urchin food theres actually a bunch like that, I guess it is more of a thing.

Lol yeah I saw that too, I saw a picture where it looked like it was serving as some sort of bowl too, I could be wrong about that but that's what it looked like. I'd try to find it again but I'm on my phone.

Very cool, thank you! What do you mean by strong? Do they holster themselves to things?

I did mean sea urchins, but I think, after reading all these responses now, I was over reading and misinterpreting people stepping on them while diving and getting spines in their foot as a sting, lol :rolleyes: I probably was thinking of anemone's when I thought of how they would...

So I'm just starting out with saltwater, and to be honest I've been thinking about switching completely over to saltwater, but I want to give it a go at least once before I do that of course, so I've been designing my new tank in my head, lol, and I'm really decided on having sea urchins in my...

Okay so I finally got the money to buy decor for my ten gallon gourami + tank mates tank. What I want to know is what should I do with it? I want it to be fun, and I'm doing fake plants, other than floating, for a while until I get the whole fish thing down first... I was thinking a fiery...

Yeah I'm positive I just overdosed. I'm doing a 50% change tomorrow and will keep checking and doing smaller partial changes after that until I see it lowered. I just read that ammonia over 4 ppm will stall or kill my cycle, so a water change is definitely on my to do list. Unfortunately this...

What I did in the end was put a small block of filter floss right behind the intake where the particles would go in to catch them, then I dumped a small box of ceramic rings into the back part where the water builds up and topped them off with sponges. All that in addition to my filters "bio...

So I'm freshly cycling a ten gallon, and I was feeding it ammonia every day like I *thought* I was supposed to, and I even started getting some nitrites. Now my nitrites are gone and my ammonia reading is so bad the test is coming out black. There are NO FISH in the aquarium, it is a fishless...

What media can I put in my filter to catch the larger particles, that won't crash my cycle when I need to swap it out? For example, would bacteria establish on filter floss/carbon pads? And if it does, would having to eventually swap it out mean crashing my cycle, even if I have other media in...

No, the timer plugs right into your outlet, and you'd plug your light into the timer.

So after actually taking a look at my Aqueon filter (I had never opened it until now..), I like it. It's got a "bio-holster" for bacteria build up and all that other filter stuff to remove everything else, so I think it'll work. I still think I'm going to add a sponge filter on the 5.5 though...

Nope, it came with a filter pad type thing that has carbon wrapped in filter floss (or at least I think that's what it's wrapped in). I just heard they weren't the greatest for cycling since they had to be swapped and also that the carbon held back a lot of stuff, and plus if I need to medicate...