Recent content by Natchos

Hi everyone. I see pictures of your sw tanks and always wonder how you manage to keep the sand so clean looking around the front of your aquariums. I have whitish kind of sand and I don't find it esthetically good looking. It's dirty and it has some bubbles all along the glass. How do you do...

Thanks! Yes I saw your post with what you bought. You got a good deal! Did you end up posting some pictures? I didn't notice. How's it doing? Did you have to start it up from scratch?

Hello everyone, I need some help please! I purchased some salt water tanks from someone at the beginning of march. We moved the whole thing. Water, live sand, fishes and live rocks. My 55 gallons is giving me some troubles especially with the water parameters. everything is doing good in the...

We brought one of them to the store today and fed their morray eel with it. Should have seen how fast he gobbled it down. That'll show him! 3 more to go. Ugh...

Thanks! I had seen his videos before. After our first attempt at hooking up everything last night, the aqueon overflow box snapped in our hands. Not good. So, we returned that piece at the store today. Didn't want to take a chance and buy the same one so we went to another store and bought an...

And here's the second crab. He's missing 2 legs on one side. I am not so sad for him though.

Thanks everyone. When we bought the tank it was established for 18 months, and it has live rocks and a refugium in the back with some macro algae. I could see copepods in the tanks on a regular basis, but then again, I am not sure if he had enough. Not entirely sure. He was a pretty tiny...

We just acquired an aqueon sump system, along with an overflow box and a new tunze skimmer, for our 55 gal sw tank. Now to set it up... Anyone has experience with these? Got some tips for me? Will post some pictures when I am done setting it up.

They are definitely hitchhikers! We bought this tank used from someone last month, with all the stuff in it. He knew he had a crab in there, and he never bothered getting him out. That mandarin was in this tank for 14 months, and was doing super well too. Can't believe he's gone.

Here's a picture. Sorry, not the best quality. It's hard to photograph it, he's in my daughter's sea monkeys container. His body is at least an inch wide.

Yup. We caught one overnight. My husband's trap worked. I'll post a picture next. He's pretty big.

Yeah they are gross. Black tips, hairy and red eyes. Yuck. Hoping we catch these buggers tonight. If not the rocks will have to come apart and we'll hunt them for their dear lives. Still sucks about little Bernard though. I'll post pictures of the whole thing tomorrow. Thanks for your help and...

Holy smokes, we just found a fifth one. Did some looking up online and they look like they might be gorilla crabs. Not cool. I won't be able to sleep now... Yuck. Gotta get them out I suppose.

Wow. Awesome deal! And it looks so nice and clean. Nice stand!

Thanks. I gather that the mandarin fish was in there for 14 months. He ate copepods I was told. Now, this might be stupid, but I have no idea how he got the copepods. There is a refugium behind my tank, and I was always under the impression he got them from there. Was I wrong? I got some of the...