Recent content by christssoldiers

I used cedar shims under the stand.

Black ocellaris: There's black ones. A percula is brighter orange and has thicker black stripes around the white. Your pic is an ocellaris. No clue about the dorsal fins.

You should run a skimmer without question. Once the ammiona starts to go away the diatom will stop growing as it completes the "cycle" from to nitrate to nitrite to diatom food etc. As to the clean up crew, the jury is still out. Some people, myself included, add clean up criters as soon as...

It's my understanding that all the "medication" does is allow the organics to dissolve through oxidation. In other words, if you don't run the skimmer it wont do anything. Also using UV or carbon will negate it's affect as well. I used some German brand, antired IIRC. Certainly sent the skimmer...

I agree that iodine is the key. I got three green striped mushrooms from a friend about three years ago. I have never cut or propagated them but by the end of that year I had given away twelve to friends, sold eight to the LFS for trade, and still have about eight four to six inch shrooms in my...

My royal dottytback/gramma was a great fish. Died last year :cry: He was never ever mean but he didn't take any crap from the saddleback clown or the yellow longnose butterfly. Only other one on your list I had was perc/ocellaris. Get two that are already together at the store if you can. No...

Are the dimensions listed anywhere? If it's not to much to ask maybe in English?

Pretty cool set up. One possible suggestion. I'm sure you have enough flow to where you could toss a 90 degree turn straight down out from the back on the returns. The only benefit would be to make the back plumming look a little more tidy. I also agree you should lose the valve on the overflow...

No, mine are not picky. They are hogs. They eat flake fine, frozen brine fine, and go after anything that moves including bubbles. If they are generally picky then I got lucky but I have never heard that before.

I have over 100 blue leg hermits and have never seen one eat a snail. I'm not saying they never will but my haven't in the last 5 years. I have noticed that the latest craze on all the forums and news groups is the "crab free" reef but I for one love the crabs and would never do without them...

Mmm Hmm, I remember them from about three four years ago on the rec.aquaria.marine.reefs newsgroup. Do a search in google groups for "aquacon"

Does the landlord know you have 100 gallons of water in HIS living room :wink: when I moved out of my apartment about 3 years ago my landlord saw me moving my tank and her jaw bounced off the sidewalk three times :lol: On another note, I like your sump, it looks very similar to mine actually.

This the same thing I made in my 75 except with no baffle. All it is is a tupperware sugar container with two holes in the lid where the drain hoses enter and a bunch of holes in the bottom for the water to enter the sump. Make sure the top of the container is above the water line. In addition...

I love the blue and green chromis. They are fairly small, pretty docile, and school so they look neat. Plus they are dirt cheap. Pajama cardnials are cool to. They school also but are a little bigger. I've never had pajama cardnals though so I'm just parroting what I've heard but I have 3 blue...

Hi boomer, Just out of curiosity how deep is your sand? I may be wrong about this but I believe sand sifting stars eat the creatures in the sand that you want not the algea. I have a bunch of cerith snails and am quite happy with them. I also have Nassarius vibex snails. which I like a lot as...