Recent content by ICEnVy

thanks for the advice. i just wanted some active fish thought that would be cool for kids. i am also concerned about the tank tipping because its got four posts for legs..... i am switching from sw cause i dont have the time to maintain it. its a pain in the butt. when i had my baby stuff...

so i gave up on sw and now i am setting up my 55g fw. do i use the protein skimmer? bio-wheel or under gravel filter? do i let the water cycle? anything make fw better? best fish combination for kids? plants? lights? any way to make tanks more secure? im afraid of my 1yr old tipping it...

so its been awhile since i gave up on the sw thing and took my tank down. i am trying to clean it to set up a new tank but i cant seem to get the old crusty algae build up things off the glass. salt build up on all my accessories too. what can i use? thanks=)

I have 2 of those T5 lighting strips by CoraLife and 2 weeks ago I noticed one was all black inside and where the light went into the socket was all melted. So I was like oh no that fixture has seen better days. Then last night I check out my other one and the plastic is all melted, and it looks...

omg you have to replace LR?! ahahaha this is nuts..... it was expensive enough to buy once! Yeah I dont have much help because I don't really know anyone where I live and my husband is military, soooo..... this ought to be fun. And I can only plan and take so much time to do this because we were...

This sucks. This doesn't sound fun at all..... I am pregnant and I just don't see all this working out. WHO WANTS MY FISH TANK?!?! lol Thanks for the advice.

Let's look at this from another persons point of view. Uhm, a more negative one..... Don't do it. It is too much work! lol just kidding. You always have a bazillion levels to worry about, it costs a lot more (LR is expensive, you have to constantly buy marine salt, protien skimmers are...

MOVE YOUR FISH TANK TO A NEW HOME?! lol I am extremely stressed out about this chore. We are getting a new place and I haven't the first clue on how I would go about getting my tank there without everything dying. Do I keep the water in jugs I take out so I don't start the cycle again? or uhhh...

I am so confused now lol. I have 15lbs of fiji and about 20 or so lbs of carribbean, and about 15-20lbs of LR that I made myself (2 are already seeded from the other LR and looking really good). So about 1lb per gallon of various rocks. I just found out I can get RO water from Safeway, but do...

Ok, so definetely using my gloves from now on..... So those are not the type that can get to be really big? I read that some can grow to 20".

Well, I thought it might be because my test was old- but I took my water to 2 different LFS and the levels read the same for them too. The LFS said my tap water has 0 Nitrates also, so I dunno? The water is city water, but it comes from a lake about 2 miles away, so I dunno if that makes it...

It looks like that, but not nearly that big at all. I will work on pics, but I am not trying to dig them out of the sand. The chick at the LFS showed me a worm once that she said stung you really bad, so I am uneasy. OK. It looks exactly like this..... I read this worm was a bristleworm...

Yeah, I am using SeaChem Prime. I just now started adding those rocks I made, and only one at a time every 2 weeks. I def properly cured them. I figured out what that worm thingy is I think..... a smaller bristle worm. It looks just like that pic from a site. So theyre bad I heard..... How...

Ok. So I have tested my tap water and all levels are 0. However my sister-in-law was saying something about copper in the water and it causing problems? I have never heard of this though..... Ok the guy at the store told me to keep the bio-wheel on til the tank started looking better to get my...

I must be a sucky SW tank owner because I still havent managed to get my Nitrates down after months. Some advice I got on here told me to do larger PWC (40-50%) until they were down... After I did that twice (a week apart) everything in my tank started to die. So I was like agh- and took my...