Recent content by Mercury64

I know ,I was even told that up front before I bought it but as my first coral I wanted something that had some movement to it plus it was very inexpensive and being I was going to take the plunge and buy my first coral I went with some polypes and a flower pott

Believe it or not I must be doing something good becacause my flower pott has trippled its size by the way im looking for some corals that will do good on the bottom of the tank, what do you think of a chili pepper coral, nice bright red ,guy at store telling me you can't kill it, will live in mud

ok I have been doing corals for about a month or so my corals are doing great, when I first started I decided to be safe and go with easy hardy corals Im doing good, checking and keeping up with all that need to be but now im wanting to do more corlas but not the same as what I have I have a...

I bout power compacts but found that they take up allot of room by the time you get enough lighting ,i was told by other members that at least 5 watts per gal is what you want I decided to change lights around and what I found was that vho lighting is nicer because it takes up less room and not...

Hi all ,hers a stupid question but I have to ask only because im sill leaning about salt water ,what is a fuge tank for and why do you need or have to have one?

Well im learning ,boy did I panic when I saw that, I said to my wife I don't know what happened, they all died ,they all looked great 10 minutes ago before the lights went off, turned the lights back on when she came to see what I was talking about they all came back to life, thats when the...

I am new to corals, all my corals are do great at this time, have had them about a month now What I did notice and find odd is when the lights are off some of them like the bubble coral or the open brain tend to look like a decaying dead plant when the lights come on shortly after the look...

thank you, you've both made me happy, I was thinking I broke out with some new alien form of things that was going to take over my tank

OK this is a new one on me My daughter is always looking at my tank for me, sometimes a good thing sometimes a bad thing but she does tend to notice every little thing Today she calls me to tell me theres bugs all over the bottom of my tank, I asked what kind of bugs, she says small or even...

the front glass is the only part of my tank that is clean from algea, I have alot of rock, impossible to clean the back or sides so I leave it

just seems to fall allot

Looks like the one I have from the picture ,aslo I was wondering as star fish are new to me Do I have to keep an eye ont it, what I mean is it sure travels around and its like one min. its on the glass the next minunt it falls down do I have to slip it over when it lands upsaide down or twisted...

thanks for the info, so what coral would fall under the sponge?, at this time I have some polypes-flower pots-open brain-cup coral, what what im being told i have stoney corals

My daughter bought a start fish for my birthday, I don't really know much about them, I did find a picture on the web that looks just like it which is the orange star fish (Henricia leviuscula) from the pacific Just wondering if it will bother my corals, she said the guy at the fish store says...

im adding tropic marin A and tropic marin K every other day, was told thats all i need since i dont have soft corals