Recent content by eddi

Let me apologize in advance, this is a long post. As some of you know over the past two weeks I have experienced a rather severe (in my opinion) tank crash. I don't think the count is final but as of today I have lost 17 pieces: 11 Acro colonies 2 Stag colonies 4 Acro frags Before I go...

Are you sure nothing else changed? A 5 degree jump is too high for just new bulbs. Besides, the light intensity might decrease with bulb age, but not the amount of heat it generates. Your fans are not very powerful, even if you have an open back canopy. I would increase the CFM, not the...

I don't think I have anything dead, all my fish are accounted for. I only tested my RO/DI water for phosphates this morning, I will run a full set of tests this evening. It has to be overfeeding. I only have a small Chevron, a small Foxface, two small clowns and a Longnose Hawk and I feed...

I am experiencing a severe Phospate problem in my 125 and it must be related to overfeeding as I have a thriving refugium and my RO/DI tested clean. I am going to start an aggressive phophate removal campaign with a remover and water changes. I also want to make sure I have the correct macro...

Hi all, I have a fairly well stocked 125 gallon SPS/LPS tank that is being overrun by bubble algae and I don't know what to do. I have tried water changes, running carbon, emerald crabs, even a Foxface with no impact whatsoever. The crabs walk over the algae to get to other food and I swear...

Wow... maybe I just got lucky then. One of my Snowfake was 20" and about as thick as a gardenhose! I guess I am lucky I have all my fingers then. Right now I have a small geomteric and a Yellow Tail. Eddi

Damn PeeJ... you must have gotten one pissed off snowflake! LOL Eddi

Define biting. My snowflake would come out and wrap iyself around my hand while I fed it and it would 'bite' my finger. But it was only seeing if it was food, it would not hurt me. I can't believe your snowflake was more aggreesive than a zebra! Eddi

I have had three snowflakes over the years. They are some of least aggressive eels available. I handfed mine every time. They usually get between 24 and 30 inches in length but have been known to exceed 36 (rarely). They can get quite thick across though. They should not bother bigger fish...

Sort of. What I do is very lightly stock the skewer through the piece of food, let the coral grab it then slowly pull the skewer off. I am sure that I did nothing they would eventually pull it off. Eddi

Yes. I simply thaw them in a little bit of tank water, lightly stick them on a long thin wooden skewer and place it where their feelers can grab them. My Elegance will eat a piece in just a couple of minutes, my plate takes a little longer. I keep an eye on it as my shrimps try to steal the...

Be sure not to stop once you start drilling the hole. Acrylic binds easily and it could fuse itself onto your blade. Apply firm but not excessive, constant pressure. Clamping something behind the hole is a very good idea and highly recommended. Eddi

I think feeding is something you need to figure out on your own as each piece is different. I have both a long tentacle plate coral (about 4" in diameter) and an elegance (about 5" in length but very narrow) and I feed each a small piece of krill or squid once a week. I have had the plate for...

Hi all, I have a sun coral, have had it for a few weeks now, and have steadily been feeding it. I have been trying to find a way to supply small amounts of constant feeding to maximize the time it has its polyps out and here is my idea. I have a fairly well stocked 125 gallon SPS tank with...

It is a really bad idea to try to remove a clam from a rock, especially maximas and croceas as they prefer to be on rocks, after it has solidly attached. I would say it can't be done, but I am sure that someone would immediately pipe up and say they did it without a problem. Break the rock, if...