Recent content by Prof.Ellie

It has been awhile! Update! I got new lights for our aquarium 2 light boxes (one side of the tank is darker.... it is above a fire alarm so I cannot hang my third light box). A few of the fish and anemone's moved over to the dark side and a few are flourishing in the lighted 2/3. Algae is...

That may be the issue. They are dying on their own after moving the crabs to anther tank. I guess the crabs weren't the problem (although they 'uproot' then a lot). Thanks! Cheers, Ellie

I have several rock flowers in our large tank. Should I move them to the small tank? I was thinking of getting several more for the big tank (since they are the only sessile things doing well). I LOVE the look of leathers, but are they hardy? I'm leaving towards Xenia. Thanks for your advice...

We had purple Coraline on a few rocks. (I'm no expert but I do know life doesn't spontaneously occur.) We feed our gorgorian ReefRoids every other day, we can definitely increase that to daily. We give it to our rock anemone too. I'll get a new light for the biocube. Any Suggestions for a...

Sounds like I have just chosen the most delicious algae for my tank. I will try some red algae. I had Udotea sp. (mermaids fan), Rhipocephalus phoenix (shaving brush), and Halmida sp. I find my crabs on all of them eating them down to nubs. I will try some hardier macro algae next time.

Our large tank. Lighting: LED Aquarium Light Power 120W, Voltage AC86-264V, Frequency 50-60Hz. Protein Skimmer: Red Sea Prizm Hang-on Protein Skimmer Filtration: Penn-Plax Cascade CCF5UL Canister Filter Current issues: Little to no Coraline growth (the shelf-like coral that was on...

What I know about the small cube! It has a built in filter/protein skimmer. Light timer doesn't work, it has unoriginal light: New light - Aqueon OptiBright + LED Current issue of concern: My Gorgonian are dying!!!! My macro algae are dying! (except that Caulerpa which seems ok...) Since...

I was considering a snowflake moray, but I had concerns about the dwarf angel and invertebrates in my tank. I have moved all our coral to our small tank (with the better lighting).

We are 4 hours from the nearest beach (I am in Texas). I am not sure how I wound up in this forum, but here I am! We do have a local freshwater tank which is so easy to take care of (we have a complete food web in there with beetles eating our live breeder fish babies... just amazing). These...

Another Question: Out of the two tanks which would be best to host bristle worms (I have a colony of normal, non-fire, bristle-worms in my own aquarium …. they make my arrow crab happy). They are the only aquatic annelid I have, so they are a really handy specimen to have when we talk about...

They were the only fish in the tank. We even had a fairly healthy copepod colony growing in there. It was really fun to watch them eat the copepods, hanging like monkeys on the caulerpa. I even took out the Gorgonian coral because I was worried the little polyps might burn them. I will try to...

Tangs... HORRIFY ME! I have read too many upset tang owners. We have a small A.percula and a large A.ocellaris (I am assuming, he has what I can only describe as bells-palsy because half his face doesn't really move...). He came with the 125g and the owner didn't have much information about him...

I LOVE KP aquatic Philipp is the nicest! I got most of inverts/fish from them. I got my macroalgea from REEFTOPIA (another Florida based store). Buying from a school is a giant paper mess but both of those stores worked with me, I just wish I could have done their organisms justice. I was...

Ok! I will have to find our 'local pet store' because from the sounds of it our petco isn't going to cut it. We initially ordered from a store out in Florida, so most if not all the species are wild-caught and aquarium acclimated from Florida (which is whey we opted for seagrass and coral). I...

Clean Up crew that will not eat Macroalgae? Do they exist? Who are they? Cheers,