Recent content by danmhippo

Peppermint +1

Usually fast swimming fish is more likely to jump. But once content with the tank condition, they are not very likely to jump.

Is this some kind of scheme to hype up your blog's viewing hits? Tell me I am paranoid. If you got questions, you can post it here.

Fingernail size is good enough for most small BTA per feeding. You can also experiment with frozen fish, chopped silverside/mackrel, fresh mussel, and you can enjoy the leftovers.

Mmmm, simple and effective way to test if your water has excess CO2

Bridal veil works best for me. Some have also put them in small cups with LR fragments. Eventually they will attach

Oh, you did not miss much. Skimmer is still running on the same concept and not much have changed in the past few years. A couple brands with nice reps, AquaC, Euroreef, Tunze. There was another brand that I have heard some very nice comment was ATI bubble master. Never used it, but was...

Wow, you guys are good, a toast to you all!

Get a butterfly.

Siphoning the sand counter the purpose of having LS. After you finished siphoning all the little critters out of the LS, you are left with cycled cheap dead sand. However, I think it is already too late now...... I'd suggest to take LFS's word lightly.

Don't know how BA spread, but the mithrax did clean out the small BA in my tank. Leaving the large ones that I hand removed myself. However, mithrax eventually start to dine on my coral polyps, so I gave them back to LFS

You can get cheap dead corals or dead-as-doornail base rock, but not limestone.

No.

Take them off for just a few hours during open house should present no problems.

Also, if it's dry sand that you bought, what I have done in the past is to sit them in a bucket with old tank water, and a piece of LR from the tank, with circulation. The idea is to coat the fine grains of sand with bacteria before adding them into the tank, much like cycling the sand first...