Recent content by bethzb

If youfeel like traveling you are welcome to them. They are the very basic green variety and never did show bubble tips in my system. Happy and healthy though.

I'll try both methods this weekend. One is bound to work though it is tempting to keep the cute little one that survived a powerhead debacle.

I can't directly access their "feet". They are nicely dug into the rock. Started with one five years ago but it just keeps splitting and after they've killed my clams, a fair number of mushrooms, my birdsnest, etc.... they've got to go. So does their cinnamon clown. If I can I'll even catch the...

Mote is one of my favorite places. They do alot and if I recall offer boat rides and "camps" and lectures and so forth and so on. Check out their web site for current offerings.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to remove 4 perfectly healthy green BTA's from rock without damaging them? I've had it. They are murderous B$##$%%s and I want them out.

The first is a harmless sponge that likes to grow in shade. Great filter feeder so just leave it be. The second looks like flatworms and could be a problem.

I have to agree with the non-stress factor. The only real stress my tank gives me (aside from the bastard of a clown fish) is when we get a power outage in the middle of a winter snow storm. My favorite saying to my husband is "We can put on more clothes, the corals can't. Hook the tank up to...

I've had this cinnamon clown for 5 years and all of a suddent she has decided to redesign the corals. I can live with the digging, I can even live with the rearranging of the gorgonians but this time she has gone too far. Just when I finally get an ID on the hitch hiking corals (pocillapora)...

I've had two different color riccordea prefer different lighting. My orange seems to like it brighter and up high in the tank under LED's whereas the green/blue one wanted to be much further away from the lights, practically on the sand bed before it was happy.

Thanks for the ID. Looked at a bunch of images on google and it definitely appears to be pocillapora. As for the use of peppermint shrimp to remove aiptasia; I considered the shrimp but came to the conclusion that my bicolor psuedochromis (dottyback) would probably eat the shrimp before they...

I know about the aiptasia. Been trying chemical removers for years with no success. New battle begins today with the very risky addition of a Racoon Butterfly. I'm hoping with a 125 gallon system with many large lps that the coral nipping will be spread out enough that no individual coral gets...

1 year ago I purchase a small piece of birdsnest coral to see how well sps would do inmy precominantly lps system. There were some small polyps attached to the same piece of rock the birds nest was on. Now, they are obviously some type of sps but I do not know what they are for sure. Any ideas...

Current Coral Stock: Assorted palythoa Assorted Mushrooms (purple, teal, green, hairy etc..) Assorted Ricordia (down to just the orange) Assorted gorgonians Assorted polyps (starburst and yellow) Orange Plate Coral (fungia) Frogspawn (My how they grow) Hammer (Started at 2 heads, now 30 or...

Here are some pics of the tank (takes you to gallery). As you can see, I can barely reach the top surface of the sand for siphoning and turn over.

My 125 has just reached the 8 year old mark and quite simply, stuff is getting too big for where it is so...I have decided to very gradually, a section of tank at a time, remove base rock, frag where necessary, and basically rearrange things. I can see some potential for disaster here. a) How...