Recent content by redBernadino

YELLOW ZOAS Just trying to help here, but those look more like Aiptasia Anemones... Can anyone else confirm/deny that for me? I had these all over my 60 gal, and it was really a losing battle. Dont the zoas have more "stubby" fingers, for lack of a better term?

Hey foma2000... Saw this and figured it might be able to help you out. I made one of these for a friend, and didn't take too long. Like it says on the webpage, if you don't have the cutting tools, usually the company can make the cuts for you. HTH... Let me know how it turns out. I may build...

Sparky... I'm not sure if you covered this, but what was the exact problem with getting it started? Sounds to me that you got the pump to pump water, just not strong enough to push it all the way up to the main tank. If its not too late (and for what it's worth) maybe you should try filling the...

IMO, it would be a lot more productive to put the skimmer before the fuge. I would replace the bio balls section with a protein skimmer, making the chamber all the way to the bottom, with a baffle as high as you want your water level. Adding live rock rubble and macro algae into the fuge will...

Sounds good... So would a normal turkey baster do the job? And I just started using carbon yesterday because the water has got a bit of a yellow tint to it. Should I stop using it for a few days, siphon off as much of the jelly as I can, and treat with the marine vitamin?

My daisy coral is starting to develop brown jelly, and my lfs told me that I could administer a freshwater dip, and save what's left of the coral. I would hate to lose it, but I am not too sure on how to or IF I should do a freshwater dip. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA :lol:

I have had mine now for about 5 months, living great in my reef tank. I have a blue tang, a yellow tang, and a clown. He even eats the pellets and blood worms I feed the rest of the fish. In my opinion, a cleaner wrasse would be a great compliment to your tank. They not only look cool, but they...

Yea, that's what I thought too. He was swimming around the bottom and sifting the sand all day/night, and then woke up and he was being eaten. Very weird.

About a week ago I added a tiger goby to my tank, and just last night, I woke up to an emerald crab eating the goby. I have 3 emeralds in my tank (60 gallons) but not much algae. Will they attack fish if they get hungry enough? I would think it would be pretty easy to snatch a goby hiding under...

My coral banded shrimp did the same thing about a week ago. The entire outer shell was laying on the sandbed in the morning, and looked like I had 2 shrimp. Totally normal. :lol:

So now that my tank has done most of it's cycling (after 5 months), I decided to add a tiger goby (?) to help sift the sand bed in order to keep any unwanted algae from growing. But I noticed that there seems to be a ton of "dust" floating through the water when he's doing his job. The majority...

I'm not sure if the water is chlorinated or not. That would make sense though. I will check it out.

RMPD109... The thing that was concerning me most was the motionless fish when I got back. I just woke up and everything seems to be back to normal (i.e. yellow fish regained color, and all the others are swimming around like nothing ever happened). Does anyone know why they started acting so...

So I went out today and stopped by the local saltwater store to see their selection of fish and coral. While I was there, I wanted to ask one of the guys there a few questions. I asked about a slime algae that was starting to grow on the top of my live sand, but he reassured me that because I...