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  1. misskeeter2766

    RO unit is leaking...

    UGH... after spending 70 bucks.... and an hour trying to hook it up.. I turn the water on and within 2 minutes it starts leaking from 4 different places on the unit... Im very very frustrated, and Im thinking about sending it back for a refund and just buying RO water from the little water...
  2. misskeeter2766

    one VERY cool snail

    bought the most awesome snail today... she called it a Buschi snail... I can't find it anywhere on the internet, so I wonder if they had it spelled incorrectly or named incorrectly... it is SO pretty .. the bottom of it's "foot?" is white, but the top and the head are dark purple/black.. it has...
  3. misskeeter2766

    what is THIS?

    it appeared overnight... caught my emerald crab eating it, it was gone overnight too...now it has shown up in another spot.. I figure it is just a matter of time before the crab finds it and gets rid of it... but I'd like to know WHAT it is...
  4. misskeeter2766

    no luck with fish.

    my yellow watchman goby is in QT right now... dying... Im starting to question my fishkeeping abilities... I was great with freshwater... kept cichlids for 3 years without losing any... just don't understand what Im doing wrong... the goby would not eat at all.... I tried garlic and...
  5. misskeeter2766

    RO/DI systems

    Is this system worth the $$?? New Portable 4st 50GPD Reverse Osmosis RO Water Filter - eBay (item 380216386884 end time Mar-24-10 19:45:30 PDT) how bout this one... 0PPM Portable 100GPD Reverse Osmosis DI Filter PO4B-100 - eBay (item 110499515533 end time Mar-26-10 21:05:47 PDT) if not...
  6. misskeeter2766

    pistol shrimp.... typical.

    Yep... worked SOOO carefully to get the water back to decent... (4 water changes in small amounts since yesterday... trying to match the pH, temp, and salinity perfectly.... ) ... got it back to 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite.. with higher than I'd like nitrates... but way way better than that 5.0...
  7. misskeeter2766

    help with my new powerhead

    I bought a powerhead to increase oxygen in my QT tank since my fish will arrive tomorrow... I am keeping them in QT for 6 weeks before adding them to my nano.. learned my ich lesson the hard way... anyway... its a rio 50 powerhead.. and it apparently comes with no instructions... seeing as...
  8. misskeeter2766

    overnight water param disaster... HELP

    last night, checked the water.. everything great... ammonia-0, nitrite-0, nitrate-less than 10... I put two flakes of food in for my two shrimp... 3 drops of marine snow, and one mL of purple up (my Ca was low-340)... this afternoon, I checked... and was SHOCKED... Temp-78 Salinity- 1.025...
  9. misskeeter2766

    Shrimp question

    I currently have two skunk cleaner shrimp in my 12 gallon nano. (man are these little guys cool)... I was wondering if I could also add a tiger pistol shrimp? would the shrimp end up fighting? oh.. and there are currently no fish... there is an emerald crab... nassa snails.. and cerith snails
  10. misskeeter2766

    New corals - woot. ;)

    my coral shipment just came in.. :) Im pumped. assorted zoas... red sea pom pom xenia... lime green favite frag.. candy cane coral frag... and I know I know... a teensy galaxia frag... That one was a stupid purchase.. impulse buy.. saw it on sale for 8 bucks and added it at the last minute...
  11. misskeeter2766

    WHY is my pH so low?

    7.2..... why? I have been doing PWCs every 4 days. I change 1.5 to 2 gallons out of my 12 gallon nano cube... I use fresh saltwater from the lfs that is made with RO water and instant ocean salt... pH will be fine when I first add the new water, then a day later.. it shoots down... it is...
  12. misskeeter2766

    brown algae on my toadstool leather

    My toadstool leather (which is fairly new-got it 4 days ago) appears unhappy. It has not extended all of its polyps, and even looks like there is some brown algae growing on it (thanks to me and my dosing/overdosing of filter feeder food...there is now way too much of the brown stuff in the tank...
  13. misskeeter2766

    xenia?

    so I am doing some considering for my next purchase ( in a week or so ) and I was wondering about xenias. I found a website that listed the top 5 best corals for beginners, and it was on it... I watched some videos, did some research, and now I'd like to ask for input... I really like the...
  14. misskeeter2766

    are these frags alive?

    these are the first frags I've purchased.. got them on ebay... they didnt look too secure when they arrived... there were three bags with several frags in each and they looked pretty beaten up... they are zoa, paly, and mushrooms....
  15. misskeeter2766

    weird thing... have no idea what it is

    okay.. on top of the nem dying, the ich or brookynella, and the aiptasia (that I think I am finally free of)... I have a weird worm looking thing I cannot identify... (hopefully not another infestation of something.. I'm losing my mind here) It is poking its ummm... mouth? in and out of the...
  16. misskeeter2766

    Brooklynella???

    I think I've had it with my lfs..... I wake up this morning and Im doing my morning inspection of fish and aquarium... I have noticed my clownfish hasn't wanted to eat and has been breathing rapidly since early yesterday... this morning I see white spots... like tiny grains of salt or sand...
  17. misskeeter2766

    drip acclimating

    hmmm... saltwaterfish.com says I should not drip acclimate coralsor anemones, but I should float them for thirty minutes and then release them into the aquarium... is this true???? I drip acclimated my anemone... is that what killed it??? I also drip acclimated my zoas and mushroom frags this...
  18. misskeeter2766

    How to do a "dip" for my new coral?

    I've given up on my lfs. I ordered a cleaner shrimp and an emerald crab online. I also ordered a toadstool leather and a couple of zoa frags... I've read online that I should do a "dip" on the corals to get rid of hitchhikers... what should I use, and how do I do that? I have been trying...
  19. misskeeter2766

    best hair algae eaters?

    So I had settled on an emerald crab... I was happy with that choice. Now my lfs (even though I don't want to buy ANYTHING from them... ), is telling me that they really don't want me to put an emerald crab in my nano.. they would rather I get a tail spot blenny or peppermint shrimp to control my...
  20. misskeeter2766

    Help me with an anemone

    So my father... while trying to do something completely out of his comfort zone and unlike him... brought me a "present" ... its a sebae anemone. Now this is a man that knows nothing about saltwater at all... he has a 55 gallon freshwater tank (thank he breaks all the "rules" with I might...
  21. misskeeter2766

    help identify these things please...

    my lfs gave me some live rock today when I went to purchase my saltwater (they sell theirs for way cheaper than it would cost to make my own. :) ... ) ... anyway... I went ahead and bought a few more members of my cuc.. (1 scarlet reef hermit, 2 more nassa snails, and 1 more cerith) ... well...
  22. misskeeter2766

    found these orange discs on my live rock

    not sure what they are. They are very hard. http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/members/27977-albums880-picture6184.jpg
  23. misskeeter2766

    water parameters during cycling

    Im on day 6 since tank setup. 20 pounds of live rock. 18 pounds of live sand. 12 gallon nanocube. here are my parameters: Ammonia .25 Nitrate 20 Nitrite 0 Alkalinity 300 pH 7.8 salinity 1.025 ................... How is it looking?
  24. misskeeter2766

    Clean up crew for 12 gallon nano cube

    I'm doing some research on what cleanup crew I would like to get when my 12 gallon nanocube is finished cycling. I have 20 pounds of live rock.. the tank has been running for 3 days... still in the beginning stages of the cycling process.. so I have some time. Here's what I've come up with...
  25. misskeeter2766

    how much live rock is too much?

    My live rock order arrived about 30 min ago... I precleaned it... then started placing it in the tank. The order was for 32 pounds. I figured i'd put half of it in. Way more than half is in there. I think it looks good (aside from the cloudy gross water now lol). I'm guessing there's a good 20...
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