Recent content by nilestr

I just bought a 3 inch squirrelfish from the LFS. I thought they just ate shrimp and meaty foods but he won't touch the frozen mysids I give him. He does however keep those big eyes on my blue damsel. Hmmm. Should I worry? Thanks. P.S. If anyone knows if red/purple algae on the bottom is...

Also the color of it is all white.

I came home from a vacation and about a 100 of these were all over the glass. Very strange. Any ideas?? I attached a picture that I drew of it.

Yup thats what they are. Harmless so don't worry.

Do they branch out looking kind of like a oak tree without its leaves? If so then it is a sponge. They seem to get about a inch off the rocks and inch in diameter.

I have been setting up a 90 gallon tank and have been curing 60 pounds of live rock for the last 3 weeks. Everything was going fine I guess. Ammonia spiked at 7ppm then slowly started falling. I left for a business trip last week and the ammonia was 3ppm. I came home to a completely green...

Investigator, If you are complaining about all of Brandon429 entries talking about small tanks then you make no sense. The whole board is set up to talk about nano tanks. True, Brandon429 has a lot of entries about his nano tanks getting smaller and smaller but to most of us that is...

What are the exact parameters for counting the total water volume of a nano. I ask because I see a lot of posts complaining about keeping the water temps up. I did a little experiment of my own. I took a one gallon glass tank and separated it in the middle with a thin piece of plexiglass. I...

I don't know if it will work for you but I ran the outlet hose from the overflow into an empty plastic water gallon. Siliconed the hose in the top so it was tight. Then I cut some holes in the part near the bottom of the jug. They don't need to be too big. The more smaller ones seems better...

I guess they aren't affected by ammonia cause I am curing my LR now and the test kit said it was 6ppm, not .6, but 6. They seem to be multiplying all the time so no biggy. I also have a bunch of small feather dusters and (unfortunatly) a few aptasia doing fine too. I think the worst of the...

I think your light hood looks good but why not line the inside with foil and get as much light into the tank as possible. It won't make a huge difference but it does help and cost nothing. Just a thought

Supergenius, I am glad to hear your miracle mud setup is doing great for your cause I just set one up for my new 90 and have my fingers crossed I really really agree about your feelings on algea. On my old freshwater 55 I had three oscars doing okay. I ws always scrubbing algea and removing...

Today I noticed that the back glass of my aquarium was covered with super small little white bugs. The largest were maybe the size of a grain of salt but most were nothing but little specks. I took a picture but they don't show up at all. I am talking really really small, barely visible even...

I saw you guys are also into cars and stereos. Maybe we could work out some trades in the future. My best friend owns a car stereo shop. I got all kinds of stereo stuff sitting in my basement. You seem to like Rockford. Want to trade anything for a Rockford Punch G14004. Put out a tested and...

You guys seem to live real close to me. When my 90 gets mature enough maybe I could buy some small coral frags from you guys. I live off of Duke St in Alexandria. If you are from DC then you should know where that is.