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that's a bummer...perhaps the potm can be used to defray the cost for another?

Nice...more pics please. What kind of wrasse is in your avatar?

:encouragement: good job!

Maybe if it were an african swallow?

I guess I feel like the design is very different from what i use in the PM kalk reactor. Example - you have a valve to mix in O2. PM Kalk does not. you have a valve to clean the thing out. Pm Kalk does not. I've never taken the thing apart once. All that it ever gets is kalk and fresh...

All too true. So how do we make good use of the study? Maybe it should be printed out and available as a flier at meetings? Or part of a sticky on the planning forum? You and i both know the lure of the hobby to many is to stack 8 yellow tangs in a 120 gallon circular tank. The episode...

Actually there's got to be at least ONE person on this board using tap with a successful tank. I used TAP years ago..RODI just seemed complex to me back then. It worked well for a softie tank. But there were times when I had unexpected die-off and I was thinking later that maybe the water...

yeah - i've had that happen. Removing the durso worked for me once in flushing my firefish into the sump. What other fish are in the tank and what size? jumping into the overflow could be a sign of somethign frightening the fish causing them to go. The good news is that they are in the...

what am i looking at...lol the picture confuses me more! the barbed hose inlet on the bottom - is that were you hook the inflow pump? no right - because you have a cone thing above it - which makes me think that is the outflow. But you said "exits thru the fitler via the port on the lid" - i...

boondocks alert! moderators are watching....lol.

it's very hard to tell what is good and what is a bad snail besides presuming the people supplying them to us know what they are talking about. When I purchased aquacultured/harvested live rock i had to almost get a dictionary understanding what critters could be good vs bad. Back then I was...

PSEG probably sponsored the study....bigger= more equipment and better for sure! HAHAHAH!

I think the caveats here should be explored further. Is it a no brainer that larger tanks are more suitable for fish than smaller tanks? I would say for the most part yes - but would a goby/pistol shrimp really care between a 10g and a 100g? I know my pearly jawfish has occupied the same spot...

that's not a fighting conch - no doubt a predatory snail eating conch. Horse conchs and possibly the crown conchs eat other snails for sure. Do you have a pic? crown conch: Melongena corona, there's a google pic of one with a crab claw being eaten. so definite not an algae eating species.

Sorry I should have been clearer - you said you do 5g water changes. Increase that to 10g or whatever increased volume you are comfortable with.

NJReefer - I saw these teeeny tiny gobies being sold at AqOb. Also they had 4 beautiful teeny tiny pistol shrimp. A 5g would be a great environment for showcasing a pistol/goby symbiotic relationship.

i've been killing them off as i see them. They are dried up little things. If I collect more I'll be sure to keep you in mind. They are tiny morsels. I think I have like maybe 5 or 6 full grown ones that keep breaking little tiny ones off that drive me crazy. The one's that are left defy me by...

ph is the least of your concerns at this time. Improve the nutrient export will help in the long run - so that means either: increased frequency on water changes increased volume on the water change better skimmer macro algae (chaeto - do you want some?) rodi reactors or all of the above. Of...

what kind of test kit is measuring the nitrates? Better not be the Magic 8 ball. (LOL).

before going nuts over the first batch - i would check a couple things: 1) how are you going to get the fry out of the tank - are they in the display? or in a breeder tank? 2) do you have a tank set up just for the fry? 3) are you prepped to care for the fry post meta? Because rotifers will...