Recent content by phippsy

Yeah mine just tends to watch the food but then he's missing the moving in for the "Kill" part and just moves for a chill out, but i'll give everything a go hes going to eat when he gets hungry i suppose anyway cheers for your advice

I must have just the picked the fussy one then mine is right a picky bastard but i'll try some of the things off here tonight and then hopefully he will start eating I never knew that giving the food a scent would be so good but obviously it is

Right ok then cheers for that I'll have a look at my LFS thanks for your advice

Right ok then it looks like soaking things in Garlic is the way ahead and I know mine is defiantely partial to shrimp as he has already eaten mine what type of garlic do you soak it in ?? i it just pureed garlic cloves or do you buy liquid stuff??

cheers mate il try that

Can anyone offer me some advic on what best to feed a Lionfish please. I bought it about a month ago and was advised by the seller to feed it frozen lancefish which it was fine with for the first few weeks but just recently it hasn't been eating anything. Does anyone know of any reason why it...

Can anyone give me any advice on what would be the best type of small fish to start out with in my tank. I already have a clarks anemone and am looking to add more but am unsure of what would be a good choice. My tank is 26 gallon's and with only the one fish in it it looks a bit empty Thanks

Yeah I'm starting to realise now that its not as easy as I thought it was going to be. How long does it take then for your tank to complete its cycle??? I had moniored all the levels and everything was going as the books said it would so I just assumed it was safe to start adding fish but it...

I do have a quarantine tank available its only 50 liters but I only have 1 fish now so I will move the Tang into this, that will only leave the 2 crabs 3 snails and cleaner shrimp in the main tank. My tank is a 125 liter by the way Seaham. I was'nt to sure if I was being to quick in adding fish...

The tank has been set up for 6 weeks and the levels as of this morning are as follows: Salinity 1.023 PH 8.4 Nitrite 0.25 Nitrate 10 Ammonia is at 0.50 To introduce the fish I leave them in the bag floating for about 1 hr before introducing them to the water

Can anyone help me? I have recently just converted my tank to a marine and both of my clown fish have died within a few days of each other. I have been checking my levels every other day and they are all within limits so I have been scratching my head trying to think what it could be. The only...

Right then I'll defo put RO water in the tank next time I do a new water change but I'll wait a while before setting up my own system Im sure that I can buy RO water from a shop near me, anyway thanks for your advice and hopefully my tank will start looking better soon Cheers :D

The ntirate level in my tank is currntly at 10. Looking back it would have been better to use RO do you think a complete water change would be a good call or should I just battle through it and continue with water changes until it clears up because I've been told that setting up a RO system can...

I was undecided on what to use but after speaking to friend who had set one previously I decided to use tap water and treat it with dechlorinator.

Right I'll purchase a timer for the lights then and thinking about it now your'e probably right I dont need to have the lights on in the day especially whilst im not in the house. Will the algae eventually just dissappear then or do you advise buying some algae eaters ie:turbo snails and...