Recent content by dwculp

Fish died at 3:00 today :(

I wonder if this could possibly have come from the pet store. None of my other fish have this, they are all colorful, healthy and active without a single mar on their body, it is just this new fish. All my water parameters are within acceptable limits (Ammonia 0, Nitrites 0, Nitrates 5, 1.021...

I am planning on putting 400 Watts over a 40, so no, not too much light.

I brought home a new Coral Beauty Angel the other day and acclimated him to the tank and he was doing very well, even ate within minutes of being in the new tank. However, I observed him yesterday scratching himself on the substrate and observed what appeared to be very small white specks on his...

I would skip the lobster, they can and will eat whatever they can get their hands on. I had one in a freswater tank that attempted to decimate my fish population.

Flushing I would have froze him first.

One other thing, PetCo fish are crap, pure crap. Every SW fish I have bought from PetCo has died with the exception of two Domino Damsels. A great percentage of the freshwater fish I have bought from PetCo have also died. No, I am not doing anything wrong, all my other fish stay alive...

I was really worried about my first fish, a large, wild caught, Percula Clown. I paid $25.00 for the guy and for the first 4-5 days he just sat in the same place, breathing heavy and not eating or moving much, and, almost overnight what looked like a lateral line infection popped up. I thought...

Octopets I was researching and came across cultrured Octopi from Octopets. com and according to their site their octopi can be kept in as little as 25 gallons. http://www.octopets.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OctoPets&Product_Code=OctoPet&Category_Code=Octopet I am still...

Thanks for the advice guys, in about one month the tank will be converted to a full reef and moved to an AGA 40 gallon breeder. I just have to figure out what to do with the 29 gallon tank, I was thinking of making it an octopus tank or a sump.

I just converted from using crushed coral to using sand in my 29 gallon FO tank. The sand is VERY fine sugar sized particles and I REALLY like the looks of it over crushed coral. I would vacuum my crushed coral once a week during the water change. Should I vacuum the sand???? It is a true FO...

Get a Bak-Pak 2 I would second the advice and get a Bak-Pak 2. I have one and I have to empty it daily. I had a Sea Clone 100 and sold it as I didnt like it, the person I sold it to did a few mods on it and got it skimming but eventually did away with it.

It is crap It is crap, you get what you pay for and for $30.00 you get a big ugly skimmer that sits in your tank taking up space and doesnt even skim well. Save your money and buy a good skimmer!

Test your distilled water, properly distilled water is more pure than RO/DI water. The distilled water I purchase from the grocery store for my freshwater tank has been carbon filtered, then run through an RO filter and then steam distilled and I have 0 problems with algae, I am also using this...

Too small I am a newbie to saltwater, but I can tell you that a ten gallon tank may be a bit small for two clowns. You may want to go to a bigger tank size like a 20 or 29 gallon tank.