Recent content by Hutch

Would I be okay with one lionfish in a 65gal set up with only a canister filter and no skimmer. I would be feeding probably a mixture of foods some live some fresh cut seafood selects from grocery store. I would probably through in a few pound of LR to. Thanks in advance

I would suggest doing some research about brackish water and brackish species before you get a BB goby. There are lots of neat fish but many of them need very large tanks (including monos, scats, etc). I keep two violet gobies in my tank they get large and don't take !*#$ from any of my other...

Rudy I would forget cichlids... amazing fish but I think for what your thinking you wouldn't be able to keep the really really big nasty ones for long Cichlids will bully around other fish but I think youd enjoy some other fish more freshwater barracuda are amazing to watch eat and you could...

Just checking to see if this tank is okay? 65 Gal w/ RENA XP2 3 Archerfish 2 Dragon Gobies 1 Green Scat 1 Puffer probably figure 8 Thanks in advance - Hutch

Im doing my first brackish tank and I had some questions about cloudy water... ive just started to increase my salt content with marine salt and the water has become cloudy ... the fish seem fine. I did some research and Im pretty sure its from all the new disolved minerals that are in the...

So far I have one archer fish and two dragon (violet) gobies in my tank... lots of fake plants and rockwork the smaller of the two gobies is not doing well and is losing alot of weight so I think I will take him back to the store. The larger bullies him around feeding time. I want to get some...

Alright thanks for the info, my only option is to take them back I guess. -Hutch

Obviously there is no way that a full grown ID shark could even fit in a 65 gallon tank. I had heard that ID sharks in aquarium rarely grow larger than 12" and even in 600+ gallon aquarium rarely reach larger than 18". Stunting a fish's growth is never good but maybe if I can give them a...

Well then maybe I will move the sharks in with the black knife and the eel and then keep the pictus in my 25 gal with 2 gold gouramis? I will upgrade the eel eventually to his own tank but I have a couple years before he is wrist size I know thats not ideal for the sharks but hopefully they...

I was wondering if this tank would work out and if not what the problems would be? 65 gal with adaquate heating and filistar XP2 and Aquarclear 200 2 ID sharks 2 Pictus Cats 1 Black Ghost Knife 1 Fire Eel I think im overcrowding a bit but Im not sure how much?

25gal while they are small when the ID sharks get to big i will move them into my 65 with 2 pictus 1 fire eel and 1 black ghost I know its not ideal for the id sharks but I will stunt their growth no matter what I do

Can I keep dwarf gouramis with ID sharks? thanks -hutch

Im hoping to start my first ever Malawi lake tank. So far I have a 25 gal I was hoping to set up with crushed coral, LOTS of rockwork, and a peguin 170 and I have a 2.5 gal hospital (breeding) tank with penguin mini that I would set up with a cave. Obviously Im starting probably too small for...

that makeshft bubble style filter is actually a skimmer - sorry was writiing to fast

Ive been doing freshwater for a couple months now and Ive learned a ton! Now Im moving away to university and bringing my empty 25 gal tank with me... Ive done alittle of reading about reef tanks and I would love to get one going the problem is first it may be over my buget, and secondly too...