Recent content by pufferman

hi guys, im in a bit of a panic as the aquarium temp has reached 87 degrees fahrenheit. My torch coral has failed to open, but all the others are okay. TEll me to do something and bring the temp down five degrees. Im in northern california, bay area to be exact, and we are experiencing a heat...

yeah i paid an amazing price of $8 for my cleaners. Only ended up spending about $16 for both of them. Best Price i have ever heard of. As for them being active, the pair is always busy doing something. P-MAN

hmm. i guess mine was a hit and a pretty good one

well i run my reef with a canister, thay way i can change out carbon. Hmm...I haven't changed out the carbon in like 4 months. I think its time to change it out again. If i were you though, I would get a sump and go with something like a Euroreef. NOTHING beats a good skimmer. Personally i like...

since my tank is only 30g, instead of dosing calcium, strontium, magnesium, etc all in different bottles, i got Kent Marine Nano Parts A/B. Part A has all the major and trace minerals while Part B has a Ph buffer. Pretty Good mix, i get it for about $10 and it lasts about 2-3 months. HTH P-MAN

oh yeah, and i also wanted to ask about my torch coral. I found a good sized pod in the tentacles this morning. Could the torch coral have caught the pod, eaten it, and expelled its exoskeleton?

how much carbon should i put in my canister filter for only a 30 gallon. I usually put about half of the container of Kent Reef Carbon, but i feel this is too much as i read that only a few tablespoons every few weeks is good enough. TIA P-MAN

somehow when the lights go off i find about 50-60 small white Astrea babies. If I look closely enough, i can see their little antennaes. Kind of cool to know that this is happening. However, i think that the little amount of cyano and hair algae that i have is resulted from putting in Coral Accel.

hey all, I got 6 nassarius snails the other day and drip acclimated them for an hour. After that i dropped them in the tank and they dug into the sand right afterwards. im a little concerned because i havent seen them come out during the day. Are they nocturnal? or is something wrong...

I have the same tubes. Give it some time and new ones will turn up. I have about 500-600 on my live rock.

Right when the actinics come on at about 8:00 a.m., my fish go straight to the glass including both of my clowns and my tang. They pick off the lagging pods that dont retreat to the rock in time. Pretty fascinating behavior.

i dun know. My goby was pretty healthy sifting the sand, then i started watching him come up in the water column for food, and then one day i lost him in the rock. :( I think the crabs ate him because i never hit an ammonia spike.