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I installed a 2' florescent light inside my new tank stand ..no more fumbling with a flash light to find food, tools or check my light timers... I...
Yellow tail Damsel... the tank bully
you are a busy man.. and I thought I "tinkered a lot"....
Well... as I stated in an earlier post. My 6 month old tank has a very slow leak....so this weekend, I swapped it out with a new one... as it turns...
The Ora tank raised( hatched) green mandarins have a better shot at living in the "average" tank than wild caught ones.. they are brought up eating...
I'm not concerned about releasing toxins, my entire sand bed is turned over constantly by my diamond spot gobie.. to the point where no sand exists...
using new sand makes absolutely NO sense... the sand in the tank has living fauna.. in it.. it is laced with worms and copepods.. throwing it away...
Sounds like the cure has as much potential for pain as the wound...... we have a salt water fish we catch here called a red perch.. the spine are...
ouch...mine has never got me... when messing with the tank I always give it a wide berth..hope all is well..
I'm going to paint this one... BLUE... I almost forgot my favorite picture...Mandy on the hunt...she's trained to the turkey baster as well ( as...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] 6 month update... I've added a few LPS and mushrooms since my last post...rearranged the tank (again) fought with a little algae...
That sucks....plain and simple...
I guess I'm lucky.. I've been keeping fish for 50+ years.. and this is my first leaker.. but why my first reef tank ...6 months into it and I'm...
I ride to the LFS ( this one only deals with salt water and coral) sent me home a few $$$$ lighter and with a beautiful Brain coral, an older hammer...
25% water change...algae clean from front and side glass and rock...vacume substrate, flush rocks with turkey baster... trimmed algae in sump......
seeing I have recently ( starting almost 6 months ago) done the DIY filter thing. I'll post my observations and findings....out of the gate, I built...
Try target feeding Mysis or shaved table shrimp and newly hatched brine shrimp... once he gets used to that food he may rise in the water column...
actually last night after the lights went out.... I stripped down my power heads and cleaned them as well as the impellers.. also stripped down and...
20 gallon water change.... clean detritus and "dust" from pockets in live rock... vacuum slower flow areas... move my war coral to the edge of the...
pretty cool... I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that repurposes things
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