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I'm sorry to hear that you have these fish under the conditions they are in. Unfortunately there is no quick fix if you don't have a system this is...
Remember that there are two different types of refractometers you can buy. One is the salt water refractometer but the other is seawater...
To be honest, most mandarins don't bother with eating brine shrimp, small or large. Not sure why a few will but most won't. Also, if there are other...
Basically it comes down to your beliefs and who you choose to be qualified to help you in your decisions. Facts are, that adding iodine to your tank...
You only have to do a search on the Reef Central's chemistry forum and you will find a pile of threads where Randy has posted that he no longer uses...
In addition to being already in your salt mix, every time you feed your tank you add iodine in one form or another. Most foods have some amount of an...
My house used CPVC but not PVC for water lines.
I'd suggest to use open ended air line tube, not an airstone which can decrease the survival hatch rate from small bubbles. Small bubbles often lodge...
If you want to feed bbs, then grow them out for two days and then enrich them before feeding to the tank. I no longer feed bbs to the tanks but...
Well I've been using it for the plumbing on all my tanks and for my home made six foot tall skimmers for seventeen years and I've not had any...
With seahorses, there is no problem with high, medium and low flow areas as long as you have hitching available in the various areas so they can...
I grow rotifers as a first food for H. reidi seahorse fry. They can be grown in any size container with moderate aeration and using a live algae...
Is anyone else experiencing problems. When I click on it the link works. Today angelfire/lycos made a big change to their network so I'm wondering...
There are even better ones at the bottom of the "MY THOUGHTS" page linked in my signature. Anyone considering the keeping of seahorses needs to do a...
SEAHORSE TANK MATES
A tank that size is suitable for dwarf seahorses, H. zosterae. While some people luck in a buck all the odds and successfully keep seahorses in...
You can get live mysids from Seahorse Source or direct from source. Live Mysis / Mysid Feeder Shrimp Some LFS's carry them also.
To date I've only reared and sold reidis. I'm waiting on an order of 4 pairs of erectus and 4 pairs of dwarfs that is originating at...
I have stopped culturing copepods, amphipods and mysid shrimp as the time to produce wasn't cost effective timewise for the quantities I use. It was...
Unless your refractometer is a true marine salt water one, (most are not), then calibration with distilled or RO/DI will result in incorrect but...
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