Recent content by Claudia Jean

And I forgot..I also have hermit crabs..will the Goby eat those?

I have finally gotten a peaceful tank..30 gallon..with a Pajama Cardinal, True Percula, Royal Gramma Basslet and Black Bar Damsel (very shy). Cardinal and Percula swim in the top, Damel and Basslet swim in the rocks. Now I am thinking of rounding out my stock with a Pink Spot Watchman Goby for...

My peppermint was quite an agressive eater, however, I'm starting to think a newer aquarium should wait for at least a year to add inverts? I worry my starfish did starve. But then, my nitrates keep going up and I'm afraid to feed too much! How do you hit the "happy medium" of fish and inverts...

Peppermint Shrimp I have had my tank since February. I have a circulation pump. My filter is a Marineland Penguin filter that came with the aquarium kit. Water is from LFS, pure. Water temp is set at 82 degrees. My chromis lived from March to September. Cleaner shrimp seems fine. I have...

Yes, they were dead, not molting. Several days before the pep died, she was hanging around the heater. My damsels are the yellow tail and a black bar. Black bar is harmless, yellow tail can get bossy, but I didn't notice her attacking peppy. I am doing water changes for nitrate level, only...

I supplement a drop of iodine for the cleaner shrimp once a week. Lighting is what came with the aquarium kit.

I started my tank in February. I had water checked at LFS two weeks ago..all fine. Today, all fine except slightly high phosphate and nitrate level was a little high. During the past two weeks I had added a strawberry dottyback..others in tank include a green chromis, a clownfish, a pajama...

I'm new to saltwater fish only (live rock). In the past two months, I lost an emerald crab, green chromis and now my peppermint shrimp died. My water tests normal salinity at 1.021...what am I doing wrong? Not overpopulated..in the 30 gallon tank I also have several hermit crabs, a cleaner...

I've had my saltwater aquarium since February. I recently purchased an Emerald Crab, slowly acclimated, he lived two days, then died. Same with a starfish I purchased. Any ideas why they do not live? Also have hermit crabs, two died, four still alive. Fish doing fine.

In February I set up a new saltwater aquarium with guidance from my local fish store. I have a very limited knowledge, 5 fish and 5 crabs. I have lost a shrimp and starfish. I had to remove a striped damsel for attacking others. So I will be soaking up all the information I can through this...