Recent content by eknuds

I was just looking around the net a bit about water treatment systems, and I was thinking, how much algae friendly (but coral and fish unfriendly) nitrogen am I adding to my aquarium by using dechloraminated tapwater?

I'm wondering if the larvae will hatch and be released live in completely fresh water? It seems like my females are always carrying eggs, and I'm wondeirng how much of a snack my fish are getting from it.

I have a tank with a fair amount of mushrooms, and now I want to be able to get rid of a few. Is there a good way to get them off of my rock?

Thanks for the replies. A few weeks ago I decided to begin dropping some flake into these tanks as part of my feeding routine, and I'm starting to see many more pods around. The Mandarin in my main tank is probably one of the fattest fish I've ever seen :).

Awesome! Have you considered reporting this to the Breeder's Registry?

I have two 30 gallon aquariums that I'm using for refugia. They both have a large amount of algae that should be a good environment for critters. However, the only things that are highly visible are a large number of the dark red/dark blue bristle worms. I'm hoping that as usual in reef...

In doing a plankton inspection today I noticed several brownish jellyfish approximately an 1/8" across. I'm wondering, should I be concerned?

Re: Population... Fortunately it's not all bad news. If you go to the Population Reference Bureau you'll see that most of the population growth is slowing down, even decreasing in most of the nations in Europe . It's expected that we'll see an inflection point in 2040 or so, maybe even...

Yellow Tang Having dove in Hawaii, I would reconsider Tangs., particularly the Yellows These fish have been harvested to near extinction in some places. When the herbivores are gone, the algae takes over from corals. Double disaster.