Recent content by Liz

I have been fighting what can only be described as a "battle" of wills with my four MP1200 for several years. They are plugged into my wavemaker and attached to the walls of my tank with suction cups. Every so often they will launch themselves off my walls and at my corals or poor anenome as the...

Thanks everyone for your really speedy responses. I haven't used the forum in a while and I had forgotten how helpful everyone is. Even for seemingly daft questions like mine :lol: I intend to use a sand bed of approx. 2 inches. I have heard that the finer sand can sometimes go hard and...

Please help me make an informed decision... I want to change the substrate (currently crushed coral) in my reef tank for either TMCs "coral sand" with 1-2mm particle sizes or Caribsea's "sugar sand" with 0.2-1.2mm particle sizes. What does everyone else use in their tanks please? I'm...

Thanks for the replies. Sorry Edmonton Eskimo, I don't understand your post. I thought halogen bulbs were MH? And I don't have a ballast, least not that I'm aware of. Though I'm not entirely sure what a ballast is in the context of marine tanks. I conceed that I know little more about lighting...

Hi all, Haven't posted in a while but am after a bit of advice. Hope you can help. I have an arcadia series 3 pendant light system with 2 x 30watt acintics and 2 x 150watt double ended metal halides with an Rx7s lamp cap. I need to replace all my bulbs but am dreading the cost of the halides...

Hi Steve. Sorry i sould have said. My tank is 100 gallons. I also forgot to add I have been adding a vitamin supplement along with the garlic guard (but not on an everyday basis). He seems very interested in the food just doesn't seem to be eating enough to sustain his weight. He gets just as...

Hi all, Wondered if any one had any advice for treating a shrinking yellow clown goby? He is sharing my large leather coral with my two clown fish who treat him as their pet. I have a green one who is very happy and normal. I'm convinced he is getting longer and thinner each week. He eats (all...

Should have mentioned. My clowns COMPLETELY ignored the leather and BTA when they were first introduced. Carried on as if nothing had been added, almost as if they didn't exist. Most of my fish/invertebrates will investigate a new arrival but not my clowns they don't even look in it's direction...

Don't know if you are still interested in responses. My clowns moved into my Bubble Tipped Anenome within 22 hours. (I think this is possibly a one off as everyone I have spoken to has been pretty shocked). Prior to that they were hosting with a large leather coral which took about 3 weeks for...

Thanks Lando, To be honest I can't remember what lighting it was under. The shop was tiny filled wall to wall with tanks and I have to say it's the best shop I have ever been to. It was extremely bright (and very warm). I'll give the owner a call tomorrow and ask. It probably is this. No coral...

Hi all, I'm wondering if I could get some advice on my bubble tipped anenome. I bought him last weekend after nearly 6 months of deliberating with the idea. Though I had done my research on their needs, I have found it very difficullt to find information on their behaviour to find out if his...

Excellent - my birthday pressie request is sorted. I'm not certain that I can wait until March though. Might have to bribe my boyfriend for valentines :lol: Thanks again Liz

Hi Lando, Thanks for the quick reply. My tank is stacked almost wall to wall with live rock guessing about 100lb of Live rock. I've had the tank for the last 9 months but bought it fully set up from a collegue who'd had it set up for two years. Prior to that set up in a 60 gallon tank. So it's...

If that's the case I love munching critters. I'd just never heard of hermits doing this and wondered whether I'd overlooked this almightly flaw when making my purchase.

Hi all, I would really like to get a mandarin (or two) for my 120 gallon set up. I understand that mandarins spend alot, if not all, of their time on the bottom eating pods etc ... Does the type of substrate matter or rather does the sand bed have to be really fine sand as opposed to the coral...