Recent content by jerrydraper

Cool Ill pick one up tomorrow been wanting to see how hard they were to get working...

Ok been a while working too much....sooo I got my first fish 3 weeks ago wife wanted "Nemo" go figure. I ended up with a clown and a strawberry dottyback. Both are doing well after the dottyback had a little acclimation issue with the damsel. The damsel was chasing the dottyback all over the...

Just an update water test shows 0 Ammonia .25 nitrite .15 nitrate Lfs said about 5 more days if the nitrite and nitrate go down I'll be ready for fish....yeah!!!

Cool good to know hes kinda neat to watch thanks for the help, new to salt and just a little cautious I dont want to run into any nasty things just yet.

Its under the mushroom looking rock at top crappy camphone pic

Just started a sw tank 2 weeks ago and this little tube thing with a red featherduster looking center just showed up nem? Something harmful...looking for ideas thanks for looking

Lol on the speargun....will go ahead and get the powerheads ordered up from what Ive read on here the more flow in the tank the better it controls the nitrate w/pwc's...when I start getting a reading

Yeah the lfs has a fish trap that they are going to let me borrow to catch the damsel...thanks for the advice on the powerheads and skimmer. should I wait to see where the nitrates end up or just get the powerheads to be on the safe side...the "new" lfs said go sllllooowwww with buying things I...

Hey all been reading alot on here and thought I'd ask for some advice...I have a 55 gal tank with 25 lbs of lr and 25 lbs base rock I have a Emporer 400 hob and a penguin 260 that came with the tank 40 lbs oolite <sp> live sand. been setup two wks the lfs said the 400 would be fine by itself so...

Oopz sorry this is where the wecome email senf me...easing over to the salt side sorry.

Hi all well Im restarting in the hobby after a 20 some year hiatus...so much has changed for the better anyhow hi and Im open to suggestions I have a 55 gal salt setup for 1 week 25 lbs live rock and 25 lbs dry rock a marineland emporer 400 and a penguin 260 power filters thhe tank isnt drilled...