Recent content by Blue_Mosquito

I guess I am an odd ball, with one in a 25 gal. I've had my Mandarin for close to 5 months now. He is very healthy, and has accepted frozen brine soaked in Kent Zoe... that lodge on the live rock, substrate, and in algae patches. He does eat all day long, or tries to, and I still have a very...

I'm looking to buildmy own skimmer from some PVC. The only question I have is that does the black plumbing pipes... are they PVC... in my local hardware chain store (Home Depot) they are reffered to as ABS... and the PVC they do have.... well they basically have nothing I need, or want... so...

I use a sea-clone. I cuit down that centre tube, about 4 inches off of it... I may do more in the future. Also, today I installed a plumbing gasket in between the collection cup and that inner tube; sealing it off completely. The foam now rises more easily upwards. I've been thinking about the...

COOL ! Makes sense. I used some crushed coral, Carib Sea Aragonite, and some coarser coral rubble that included many hermit crab type shells that my LFS was clearing out. I haven't had any problems with nitrate/ammonia build-up, but do have healthy populations of pops in the substrate of my...

I've had my Mandarin for about 4 months now... he'll eat frozen Brine... and picks pods off the rocks... I soak the frozen brine in Kent Zoe, with some tank water then pour it in... he'll pick off whatever gets caught in the rubble and on the rocks... all day long... He's doing well, grown a...

A pink-tipped Condy... Planning on some more blue leg hermits in the next few days and maybe some caulerpa

I'm lucky enough to have a relative who works in a medical lab... so I just got her to bring me a long pipette that had been throughly washed by her, and then by me... that works just fine. I think the airline tubing would be a fabulous idea... then your dropper could reach more areas with some...

I've had a pair of pistol shrimp that came in on the orginal LR I put in. They 1st bilt a burrow in an O shape I made with the ruck, then made a burrow under a natural lip in the front and centre of my tank. Very cool. They've been moving road sized gravel around as well as some other substrate...

I have two sets of critters for you people: 1) 2 shrimp. Brown and White Banded. They are "digging" multiple holes in my LR, and have even STACKED some coral rubble on the bottom, onto their piece of LR. I believe one "claw" is larger than the other. Eyes are not stalked. 2) Small white...