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akmechanic, isolate them quickly and treat them. I lost my two black clown to velvet.

noplac2hyd, I have had a lot of experience with mantis hitchhikers. I had two at the same time in my LR. One cheap trap you can try that worked for me is to take an empt 1 or 2 liter container of soda. Cut it in half. Take the piece with the top and shove it, top first, into the other piece...

I have a 60 gallon reef tank. I am planning to keep sps and lps corals. I currently have 3 PHs and have been comtemplating getting a wavemaker. I have read thru a lot of message strings about wavemakers on this site and other forums. I do not have a sump, so please don't reply by telling me...

What about this filter? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2379281253&category=20684&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

I talked to Casco this morning and they recommended that I keep an eye on the water level to verify if I have a leak or not. They also think it is salt creep so I will keep an eye on it.

I just set up my first acrylic tank. It is a 60 gallon made by Sea Clear. I noticed around the tank some white powder. I did a taste test and it tastes like salt. I have noticed this build up slowly around the tank. Does it sound like I have a leak. The tank has been up for a little over...

Suprised, have you noticed any of you livestock missing? I had a 2 mantis shrimp and they devastated my livestock. You can also wrap some red celopane on a flash light and try to identify the little bugger at night.

I am stuck at work setting up a server. In-between software installs I answered it. :wink:

johnkristie, for a QT you don't want to invest in anything except a heater, filtration, and possibly a light. You only want a tank to hold your fish and treat them as necessary. Theoretically you don't hold fish in there for extended periods of time (2+ months). IMHO, adding anything extra...

I had two black percs that wouldn't even take mysis shrimp. After adding Kent's garlic xtreme, they ate like pigs. After 2 days I stopped adding the garlic and they eat fine. I would only use the garlic to get fish to start eating. BTW, that stuff is strong. Kent puts their bottle in...

Squishy, wouldn't you think he should do a 15-20% daily? I would want to get those numbers down quick.

I had proiblems with my two black percs and someone suggested that I try adding garlic extract to the food. After I did this, they ate loke no one's business. Kent makes a garlic extract for this to help spur fish appetite.

wildflower, one thing that I forgot to mention is that one of the shrimp cracked my 65 gallon tank. I have read an article a while back that said that their clubs can impact with the same force as a .22 caliber bullet. I am not sure if this is true, but he did crack my tank. After I found the...

Wildflower, I had the same experience 2 years ago. Except, I spotted two of them. I got a 2 liter soda bottle. I cut the bottle 3/4 of the way up to the to. So, I kept most of the lower body as the trap. I then took the top piece with the screw on opening and turned it around and inserted...

Get the shrimp, they look cool and you don't have to hunt the aptasia because they will do it 24/7, :lol:

My local LFS is selling them for $39.99 for the 200 gallon bucket. Is this saly better than IO? I am about to buy a 200 gallon bucket of IO this weekend.

cj10488, I agree with you that it can kill some of the benefitial HHs, but if you dip the rock for 60 seconds, it is still effective. Although either method is not 100% it is better than nothing. I saw a link on either this site or another site talking about some guy doing a seltzer dip and...

cj, Their prices are a little higher, but they sell some of the best fish in the area. Maybe they were that expensive because they were trained to eat from your hand.

dino, are you planning to keep fish or a reef tank?

Not to mention that the rays are mega-expensive! I had a LFS in Chicago selling theirs for $1K for a ray that spanned about 10-12 inches across. They would only sell them to very experienced reefers with large tanks because they wanted to make sure that the rays were being well kept. So, if...

Nemo, the soda water method that cj described will work as well as a hypersallinity dunk. In this method you mix up some salt water at a higher salinity rate than your tank, something like 1.03+. You dip your LR into the solution for a maximum of 90 seconds. During this time all or most of...

I think I was sleep deprived when I wrote my last reply. My buddy pointed out that the mantis was closer to 3-4 inchesand that the rock weighed around 20 lbs. I didn't mean to tell a "fish" story. :oops:

If I remember correctly he was 4-6 inches. He was hiding in a 12-15 lb piece of LR that I bought directly from a wholesaler. I thought I was getting a deal. :x Luckily I had a club type mantis versus a slicer. I hear those are quieter.

I wa thinking of making it a reef tank. I am thinking of some soft corals and possibly a clam. As for livestock, I am definitely getting some clown and maybe a small angel.

I just started a 60 gallon acrylic and bought 30 lbs of live rock. I am looking to buy another 90 lbs of live rock because a guy I know is breakign down his tank and offered to sell me his rock for $2/lb. Do you think that 130+ lbs of live rock is too much for a 60 gallon?