Recent content by bighabeeb

I've tried on two separate occasions, primarily because I had aiptasia outbreaks. Regretfully neither fish made it. They're beautiful, but the success rate of keeping them is very, VERY small.

Not trying to flame crister - but I'd say concern is appropriate when someone sees something labeled "expert only" and their question is "but is it REALLY expert only?" :)

I feed twice daily - once with marine pellets, once with brine or mysis - making sure everyone gets something they like. As for acclimation - I float the bag for 15 minutes or so, then do a slow drip over the course of 40 minutes or so. I'm probably over cautious with it considering I buy my...

Yea unfortunately the clown doesn't seem to be the culprit - couple of those disappeared before he was in there.

How is the mushroom doing? When you say "fine", what are the parameters? What kind of flow is pointing at it? Generally speaking with polyp type stuff they wont open if there's too much flow or if there's a fish messing with them - I had to move a few polythoas around a little bit until I...

That was my initial thought as well...I just dont understand why stuff keeps vanishing! Very frustrating.

Just read the description of the thing: "Indonesian blueberry sea fan. Gorgonia and Sea Fans are challenging animals to maintain in good health and should only be purchased by the expert marine aquarist. For optimum health they must be fed phytoplankton several times per day along with other...

Details if you please! I currently have a 10 gallon tank sitting in my garage gathering dust that I got as a freebie at a midnight firesale, and have been thinking about setting it up as a pod breeding tank - but had no clue where to start!

Clowns tend to be pretty voracious really - though I've never really tried them on flakes. Try calling the LFS, see what they were feeding them there: I had a clown that I raised from the time he was about the size you're talking about to full adulthood...and when he was little the only thing I...

OK so here's the deal. In the last two months I've had the following fish in my tank: sleeper goby, 2 firefish, royal gramma, ocellaris clown The only one that is still present is the ocellaris clown. I've searched high and low, as much as I could without ripping the tank apart, and...

Zoanthids and palythoas are great for starters - they don't need any feeding apart from light, though my paly's get an occasional treat of mysis shrimp: seems to be making them grow a bit quicker. From what I understand, the same is true of zoanthids - I'm just not psychotic/determined enough...

Ugh...not sure I'd say they get along with EVERYBODY.... "A 30 gallon or larger aquarium with plenty of hiding places is acceptable for this hardy and aggressive fish. It should not be kept with larger more aggressive hawkfish. Although it eats small fish and shrimp, with caution, it can make an...

Thoughts? Just noticed this thing growing in the middle of my GSP...

Well its looking like I may be removing the open brain today. After adding a few fish, and having them disappear with no sign, I started sitting up late with a flash light and last night hit pay dirt. My open brain has been eating...really, REALLY well. Might explain why the feeders were...

Yea I was sortof hoping the clown would get attached to my GSP...but nope, this open brain is where he wants to be!