Recent content by linderaberry

Nothing, yet -- I'm gathering info to get back into the hobby. I had tanks in the 70s and 80s with 70s equipment and I need to learn a lot before I can make the investment to start again. My tastes run to massive backgrounds of plants ond algae, a few interesting-shaped rocks, a robust cleanup...

Matt, I look forward to reading your update to the recommended fish listing. It would be very kind of you to gather together the disparate info on aquarium-suitable Trimma and Eviota species, evaluate it based on your expertise and experience, and put it in one place for nano people. There...

If you've got real strong water movement in your tank, dows that protect the sponges from getting overgrown by algae? I thought they ate the unicellular algae that landed on them....

Gorgeous -- but, hey, the algae species aren't listed! Isn't that a Caulerpa or two? I thought we were supposed to quit using those because they emit toxic chemicals...?

Yet, superb water quality implies a lot of filtering and skimmming, which removes food that the sponge needs. Is that the problem withthem?

So your Linckia ate roughly two or three weeks worth of growth in one day.

Maybe you could keep your crabs under a big wire strainer for a while, or put small wire strainers over some of the delicate things to exclude the crabs. I mean the cheap woven-wire (like wondow screen) strainers which come in quite a range of sizes and are easy to find in kitchen sections of...

Please, would someone tell me about failures and successes in keeping particular species of blue spnges? I'm not finding a lot of info. Blue sponges seem to be not only various species, but various genera. I have not yet been able to learn what are the bluest or what the most easily maintained...

Oooooooo! Ahhhhh!!!! Tell me about the blue sponge -- is it very delicate? What are the ideal growth conditions for it?

Wow. Good small lights are way more expensive than I had realized. Not that much cheaper than big lights. I need to totally reassess whether I am going to take up serious aquaria again. I kept aquaria in the 70s and 80s with 1970s equipment ...it's a whole different deal nowadays.

Ooops. I thought they were actually saltwater shrimp which were sometimes called either lobsters or crayfish. But you're right, Hamers are freshwater. Isn't there some kind of blue saltwater or brackish shrimp?

Dilute your sample with an equal volume of distilled water. Whatever reading you get, times 2, is what your real level is.

Whoa, really, how much does the electricity cost you to run a tank and lights etc of this size?

Anybody keep blue Hammers lobsters (crayfish)?

Safety in numbers -- might the cardinals become bolder if they were more numerous? Would one or two more be too much biomass?