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Yeppers, perc lasted about 8 hours and I found it badly battered. Recovered nicely but living in the sump seems sort of pointless. The GSMC is really pretty but I think she's a little too big for my tank. I guess a FOWLR might be ok but sticking my hands in to rearrange things doesn't seem to be...

Gauging interest in a LARGE GSMC. She's beautiful and very friendly. Maybe too friendly for me - she tries to get intimate every time I put my hands in my tank. She gets along with anything EXCEPT any other clowns. But make no mistake... It's HER tank. She's about 4" she took about 20 minutes to...

Well I'm gonna try to introduce a green (psychedelic) and it's a 4' tank. *GULP*. guess I better not point out the mandarin to the kids until I see if it makes it. 6-lines only been in there a month or 2 so it's not totally in charge yet...

Thanks The recognition makes dealing with my wife making fun of me worthwhile - I guess I can't blame her when the hobby has me trying to use my phone to take eye-piece pics from the microscope set up on the kitchen counter.

All my CUC came from aquarium center in blackwood or an online purchase I made when I was first starting. Not sure I remember where that was but it was out of state. Funny about your 6-line. I have a madarin about to come out of QT and I'm hoping the 6-line doesn't terrorize it but the 6-line is...

so if I assume that I am up against rissiods and not the pyrams I wonder if there's any downside to the rissiods - my palays and zoas always seem to struggle and I always blame the Singapore Angel even though I've never caught him in the act and the palays are small and alive - if it was the...

Thanks Jim!! - the "diagram"? was a huge help - I could not visualize what was meant by the fold or the heterostrophic coiling. All I had to go on was that I would find them on the glass or occasionally on a rock (but they're hard to find) so I was hopeful but this puts my mind at ease. I also...

I have several of these small white (tan-ish) snails and I'm trying to ID them as Pyramidellids or Rissoids. I broke out the microscope and tried to take some pics as an article suggested that Pyramidellids (the evildoer of the 2) has heterostrophic shell coiling, they apparently have no...

+12 or whatever it's up to. Got mine on RC a little under 1/2 price - did spring for the magnet mount tho. And the little pump brings water up from my basement (4' head + 4' linear) and through a Kalk reactor - no problemo...

I used to rinse mine and would soak them in a 5g bucket with water and about a cup of bleach until I had enough to run through the wash (they went in with the fishroom towels used to wipe up spills, drips, etc when the hands go into the tank) - when I'd change and have 1 in the sump and 1 ready...

I have a clown that someone gave me when I bought a wrasse from him - I had a LARGE GSMC (maybe you remember when you saw the tank) the new guy was in about 24 hours before the GSMC made him her biaaa-tch. If you listened with your ear to the glass you could hear her tell him to call her...

I've also read that the other areas of the spectrum are better achieved using a mix of cool white and warm and/or neutral white. I've also read about the spotlighting issue with reds - definitely don't use an optic on a red.

Thanks for the info. What size tank is that?

The 100w pics from jgraz look like they're off the eShine website. Huh...

actually I was looking at the eShine website and price sheets that nyteGTI got. I'm not sure what shipping would be on the eshines but what looks like the comparable unit to the eBay dimmable is the 4G LED Grow Bar 24-3w-1 w/ dimmers - if i read it right, they are $153 US each before shipping...

ok, thanks for the heads up - I have it dialed pretty far back - like 40% or less so I have lots of room to amp things up a bit

looking at the pricing, I'm not sure a group buy would do too much and it looks like it would require everyone getting the same "units" - but shipping could be a whole other issue and it sounded like shipping would be much cheaper if it was shared among a bunch of us. If I could more clearly...

I'm not sure exactly - it's been a while since I measured but I believe it's pretty close to 9" I don't care for my little stand so I have been looking for an excuse to make a new one as for the BRS insert, there is no question that MOST of the slots were closed - poor manufacturing controls if...

interesting... needless to say, please post any pics he sends you. I'm really torn now this option - maybe with a GB scenario, best case for me is 2 lights at $300-320 DIY will be, again, best case $350-400 but that allows to better customize what I want in terms of ration, optics and I...

Glad to hear - I was so happy to get it looking the way I wanted I hadn't given any thought to the pace or rate of tumble. It seems to be as it was described - fast enough so that everything is in motion, slow enough that the bacteria can populate. this is sort of why I was chasing the idea of...