Recent content by daveNandi

I'd use pure vinegar. It'll kill anything, disolves calcium carbonate and a small amount is harmless to your fish if some gets missed.

I believe that E Quadricolor (bubble tips) are the most common and most often successful in aquaria. I would recomend the rose variety for color, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While you can do without MH, I'd get them anyway if you're buying lights - it'll give you more options...

One of my tanks (seahorse tank that is high in nutrients) gets that every time I clean my remora HOT protein skimmer. The LFS explanation that makes sense to me is that more bubbles make it through the skimmer and into the tank after I break up the biofilm that coats the inside of the skimmer...

All of that food would add enough nutrient to your tank to give you an algae bloom, especially in a tank that small.

I had some that stayed closed for about a week, never did figure out why.

Getting sucked into powerheads is a common problem for anemones. Put something around the intake on the PH to prevent it. I use just the plastic housing from a hagen filter zip tied to my maxijet intake.

We feed ours krill and silversides

My LFS did it for $25 including the bulkhead, but they said I bore the risk if the tank cracked. They said chances of it breaking was <10%.

You might solve your problem by adding live rock (about 1 lb per gal) and a refugium with some macroalgae, but I'd bet using good water will be it. Test the tap water you are using before you put it in and see what the level is.

I use a limitted amount of bioballs and biobale as a way to trap microbubbles. I haven't had a problem with Nitrate, but I also have a fuge with macroalgae.

Found the reference: quote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some tank raised ocelleris sometimes are slow to accept an anemone. Here’s an amusing but effective trick: buy one of those plastic clownfish clips used for holding nori or lettuce and put it...

That edge represents a clean break- the first time I tried to scrape off the brown gunk, I accidentally broke off a small piece that was overhanging that damaged region. Should I do something with the edge? I figured it was the same kind of break that would have happened if I had fragged it...

sick coral pics Well, I finally managed to both take some pictures (albeit a bit blurry, since I have digital zoom on) and figure out how to make the file size sufficiently small to post. The first pic shows the whole coral, the second shows a close up of a portion of the underside, where the...