Recent content by Jazzcat

Thanks for the help!

I recently purchased a flower anemone (E. Crucifer), and I was wondering if I have to feed it. I read in Practical Guide to Corals that flower anemones are not true anemones (it's a link between mushrooms and anemones), so does it have the same care requirements? Thanks.

Just recently, I began using water distilled by an Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Tap Water Purifier system. I have noticed over the month or so that I've been using this water, that my red cynobacteria population is fairly exploding. Has anyone who uses the TWP noticed a problem with this or with...

Last week I posted about how my mushroom aneomones were disintegrating into brown slime. I believed the cause to be either the application of Ruby Reef's Kick-Ich, or an overdose of Bio-Calcium. I did some experimentation with the Kick-Ich, and I did not see any negative results, so I went...

There is a new LFS in town called Family Pets, located off of Fremont Blvd near Grimmer (near Clover Leaf Bowl, for those familiar with the area). When I walked into their fish section, I nearly fainted! Theirs are the *cleanest* tanks I have seen anywhere! They were all immaculate. Not a...

Man, I really feel for you I'm going through hell with my tank too. My one fish is afflicted with ich, and all of my mushrooms are disintegrating before my eyes. Anyone notice that the pleasure derived from reefkeeping works on the same line as: "Why do you keep banging your head against...

Thanks for the feedback guys. The blenny is a new addition to the tank. The tank's original fish were wiped out by ich I let the tank run for three months with no fish before adding the blenny. I had hoped that without hosts, the ich had starved to death. No such luck (damn ich!) If...

The bicolor blenny is the only fish in the tank, and it is fighting ich. So does everyone feel that the Kick-Ick is responsible? Or could it possibly be the calcium changes or lighting changes?

One other recent tank change: in order to encourage the growth of coraline algae, I've changed my lighting schedule. In the past week, I've been running actinic only for 1 hour in the morning, and 1 hour before lights out. I run daylight and actinic for eight hours in between.

Over the past week, I've noticed my mushroom anemones dying. They are disintegrating into brown slime. I've had these mushrooms for more than four years, and they have thrived in my tank over that time, to the point where they were in danger of crowding out the other corals. No longer. The...

Address and cross street? Business hours? Thanks! Did you see a purple sea blade there (gorgonian)? I've been looking for one.

I've heard good things about it, so I just got one myself. Couldn't find it on any of the MO sites, but my local Petco had it. Was very easy to set up. The one problem that I do have with it is trying to maintain the proper GPH. It must be 10, but my faucet pressure keeps changing, so it's...

Two years ago I got a Red Serpent Star based on a recommendation by Aquatic Specialists. It has thrived in my 20g, and is now about 8" across from leg to leg. It has never bothered inverts or fish *except* when anything was dead or near death. It is a voracious detritvore that will really...

GARF has some suggestions on reefkeeping that seem to contradict common wisdom on this board at times. For instance, they suggest that you add *all* of your livestock to a new tank at once (after it's cycled) to eliminate fights over territory. But I've heard here that that is too stressful on...

My first reef tank was a 20g with 21 lbs LR and a shallow sand bed. I struggled with copious amounts of hair algae for two years. Then someone suggested that my sand bed was too shallow. So I added three or so inches sugar sized aragonite to it. Within a month, I had no more hair algae...