Recent content by rachel7546

i have an Archer fish (2inches long) in my saltwater tank. I collected him locally from a salt water environment about 6 months ago and he has been great so far. Yesterday i put in a new light for my corals - 1 metal halide, 150 watt, 10000 K - and today the archer fish is looking pretty sad...

OK, Cheers for that, very helpful. Looks like i'm doing another total change. On the topic of sand i am thinking about collecting it from an offshore reef when i'm diving. I live in Darwin Australia (a city with no useful aquarium shops and apparently no playsand) which is pretty remote so i'm...

My tank has been establised for 12 mths. I started with an undergravel filter but recently pulled this out and added a crushed coral base. I left a layer of the gravel there to speed up growth of bacteria in my crushed coral. Problem is now after reading about other peoples tanks, i think my...

nudibranch feeding habits Im cetainly no expert but reading up on material about the physiology of nudibranchs they appear to be carnivores, not algae eaters. From what i can gather the Order Nudibranchia (Subclass Opisthobranchia, Class Gastropoda) are carnivorous grazers that like to feed on...

i had 11 nudibranchs in my tank and they looked beautiful for 2 months then one morning i found all of them dead on the bottom - very strange. You would have to imagine starvation was not the cause here. I know crabs love to eat them as i had to remove three small crabs (different species) from...