Recent content by sqrle

of course, I know the rules

uhm, about 6 months

ph - 8.2 nitrite - 0 nitrate - 0 ammonia -0.1 phosphates - 0 calcium - 400 KH - 179ppm All of these readings are after doing a 25% pwc. I will have to get some carbon tomorrow, since I recently ran out. After a good look at the star polyp tonight, I noticed that some of the edges where it is...

I had one of these but lost it when I had a heater malfunction. It was my favourite. It would eat whatever was floating around, but it also took great care of the sand. It was always taking moutfuls of it to sift through its gills, keeping it nice and clean, and eating whatever had settled on...

Is there a way to find out if a star polyp is dead? it has not opened all day. Yesterday when it was out, it looked really ragged and wasn't at full extension. I am a bit concerned that my flower pot coral has waged warfare on my tank. My star polyp, and hammer coral are looking strange...

I think that my flower pot just spawned. After the light wnet out I noticed these "chunks" of egg looking things floating around in the water. They were purple in colour, and each egg thing was .75mm in diameter. I looked around and noticed the flower pot secreting this stuff from it's top...

ok great, I have atleast 8 that are sweepers on this one head

No, they don't seem to be reaching for anything in particular. They just come out and flop around most of the day. I was curious, just because there are 6 heads on it and only one has sweepers that come out. The rest just look normal.

I don't know how many of these I have come across since starting my SW tank some time ago. I would have to say at least a dozen from 65lbs. They all migrated into the sump. The only crabs that i keep in the DT are ones that I keep in the DT are emeralds.

Do you want to pile up the rock on both ends? I did that and it was a pretty cool affect. It is called "flanking columns". What I did with mine was to pile it up on both ends, then save a bunch of smaller pieces to cover the sand in between. It gives some of your territtorial fish more space...

I have had this hammer for a little while now. I noticed some time ago that there are sweeper tentacles coming out of only one of the heads. The rest look normal, but no sweeper extension. Is this a normal phenomenon or should I move it around?

Hey, nice to see some body else on here from Kelowna!!

they are small enough for them to eat normaly. They look like they are chewing, but that is how it eats

Mine eats other foods to. I make my own food, but mysis shrimp, or brine shrimp will normaly be taken as part of their diet. They just scavenge the sand bed a lot.

"If I get really into it" hahaha, that literaly made me LOL!! Once you start, there is no turning back. Just face the fact that you ARE getting a 50-70g tank. The bigger they are, the easier they are to look after. A 50-75 is a good starting point, unless you have the money to go bigger...