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there's probably traces of nitrate...never bothered to measure since I basically do daily water changes. Mind you if i had a real breeding system - i'd have a skimmer and lr etc in a sump somwhere. I don't think there's any phosphate since i've just been feeding live food. Here's a pic of the...

I'm just joking... There's a lot of it in front of my driveway - welcome to take it for free. ;D ;D ;D This road has been plowed several times already:...d'oh!

old thread i know - and I admit i am one of the naysayers. I think cheato is far more efficient for exporting nutrients in combo with a good skimmer. But I will admit that in this hobby there are many ways to get there - so if it works for you - post up pics!

either way will work - as long as you approach it gradually. It's likely the fish adjusted to the higher sg over these past few months. It would be hard on them if you switched it back to 1.026 over a 48 hr period (or something).

hidden for me. I dunno if others have a different experience.

beautiful mandarin! I should have gotten one. instead i have a fat aggressive yellow coris wrasse lol. where's the GSP situated? I picked up some GSP from herbieK (thanks!) and put it on a disc. The thing is totally overgrowing the disc and trying to get off the sandbed now... ;D Jrwohler's got...

fred - spend the money and get a refractometer. Put up a WTB/want to buy - someone must have one available. a few point off on salinity/specific gravity and you'll end up spending a lot more money replacing the deaths that occur due to improper water.

if they fight - you can be assured that the clownfish will be the winner since the crab has not real claws (the two pincers on the front appear to be more show than anything else). You could always just get the "regular" porcelain crabs. They do not all have to be in an anemone. I got a hoard...

Wow. What I had been doing was as the rotifers culture got dirty, I'd harvest all of them and dump them in a new ASW bucket. I must have harvested that same brine shrimp over and over again... ;D

thanks a lot george. I think generally speaking a lower SG offers an easier time for fish to breath in general. My physics is rusty but the pressure from osmosis is less on the fish when SG is low. Raising the SG (due to ammonia) should be a trick used when you are lazy/slacking on the water...

yep - that's what I wanted - to grow them out for the display fish. I purposely place a few day old brine shrimp in the rotifer container. WIlkerson mentions that brine are a good canary indicator in the rotifer culture. If the brine is living/growing - then the rotifers are going fine...

well they are in a 5 gallon salt bucket aerated with some phyto. I think I'll scoop some out and do as you suggest. Good idea!!!

thanks - the problem i noticed is that the fry are not always in the water column - sometimes they stick to the glass sides - as if they are afraid of something in the water. Adding greenwater/phyto helped this problem a lot - but I still had a few. Today I noticed another two dead. Ammonia is...

they are filter feeders - so don't expect them to clean the tank of food/poop.

I try to avoid sticking the arms in the tank, this guy got a bacterial infection from an open wound: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1782533

no worries - i'll probably update this once a month - if that. Updates are all going into the clownfish log. That alone is taking a lot more time than i ever anticipated. Today - most of the batch 3 babies have sunk to the bottom. They look dead - but I know they are going thru metamorphosis...

leds are the future but i'd go T5. Which led fixture are you looking at - the pacsun one?

I"d skip MH on a 55 gallon tank. A single MH fixture will have a focused amount of light that will cover 24x24. Since a aga 55 is only 13" deep - your light will be spilling out. I mean it'll work fine - but I think it's more than needed. You're better off with a set of T5s. Or if you want to...

I did not previously for batches 1 and 2. Dunno why but despite not rinsing they were ok. I started rinsing batch 3. I don't use the net anymore, I use the rotifer sieve and place the entire sieve in a small container of asw (mixed overnight,aerated,temp acclimated). Then i dose the bbs into...

honestly i don't think i do anything special. With regards to food - other than ensure the clowns get their share (which they do since they have the biggest mouths by far). I know some people swear by enriched frozen or something else. I think like all saltwater tanks - you can accomplish the...