Recent content by Crolston

I would also take a look at water agitation. In a 20 gallon tank, there won't be much margin for error in terms of making sure there's enough oxygenation.

Here's something I learned the hard way with the bottle-feeding-trick. Be careful with the length of time you are placing the feeding bottle over top of the coral. Most liquid foods have a measurable impact on water parms in a confined space, particularly PH and Phosphorous. With that little...

Unfortunately, the little guy did pass away several hours after my last post on Saturday. Even though the other Scooter and the Mandarin are doing fine and the pod population seems stable, I was still worried about nutrition. A necropsy revealed the culprit. The poor little guy had somehow...

Thanks Doug. No new additions to the tank for 3 months now. I added a second cleaner shrimp at that time. Prior to that was 6 months ago when I added the Scooter and a second Clown. All my fish get a 2 week QT before joining the community. I agree, my first instinct was either Ich or...

I'm hoping someone may have some thoughts on this. I have a Scooter Blenny behaving lethargically and gasping (bottom of tank...though I wouldn't expect a Scooter to spend time at the surface, even if ill). The rest of the community is behaving normally. The Scooter has been in the tank about...