Recent content by imahawki

LOL. HT/Music will always be my primary hobby.

Thank you guys for keeping up the good responses. Definitely moving from the probably not to probably so camp. Still need to pull together finances for the whole thing.

So I could go with ~1 lb/gallon LR (does that include live sand or is the totally seperate, also, is that a good metric as arent we concerned with surface area?) a skimmer, thermometers, basic light, hydrometer or refractometer, a couple power heads and that would be all I need?

So if I did want to do LR for the filtration benefits does it require any special (by which I mean powerful like a planted FW not just actinic or whatever) lighting or is that just corals that need special light. Also, say I did LR could I use a cheaper power filter with a protein skimmer...

I'm not sure what the rolly eyes is for unless its actually demonstrating my point. On the audio/home theater forums I participate in, Bose is definitely considered bad. That said, what are the requirements for LR? One of the reasons people I talked to thought that SW was not that hard was...

OK guys, I'm back on the trail. My other hobby is home theater and I belong to several forums. I pinged some guys there as I trust their input on a variety of things and most of them do not go nearly into the level of complexity that I see here. I definitely wonder how much of the...

That's good news assuming that's what it was.

I agree. I just noticed out of the blue how bloated he/she was. The only thing I felt bad about was that I'm sure it was miserable the last couple days. I hope none of the other fish get sick.

Well, thanks for all the advice. I lost the fish overnight and he never really improved. All my other fish look healthy but I had no means to QT the fish so I'll have to keep my eyes open.

I noticed two days ago that one of my 5 rosy tetras just got really bloated. There is no sign of illness on the scales or any other sign of illness (i.e. behavioral) but when I look at the fish head on, he is probably 2-3x wider than the other tetras of similar overall size. I say he, but have...

I also tend to use the dump method. I have ~20 fish all added to my tank over the course of 1.5 months and zero deaths. Of course I think this works well because I also live very close to the fish store and we have the exact same water. Growing up this would have been a bad idea as I lived on...

I thought Cichlids and live plants were a no-no. Is that not the case?

Well, that's true too. I'm not getting a ton of waste buildup because I have 5 cories and 3 ottos and I'm not over feeding at all. Maybe I'll just not worry about it.

Yikes, I'll try it but that seems like a major PITA considering I'd have to get in the cabinet under the tank and unplug it and I'm usually feeding my fish right before I run out the door to work. I might have to switch to evening feedings.

I guess it might depend on placement of the tank, but I live in a 3 story house with all levels finished so I really dont have a place for a quarentine tank and "extra" water to be conditioning.