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really beautiful ken...fish AND tank! is it bare bottom?

fwiw make sure it is indeed ich and not velvet. In my opinion the best method is to pay the price and get a QT. The hobby is expensive enough maintaining healthy fish let alone having to flush $50, $70, $100 down the drain because you didn't want to pay $25 for a 10 gallon tank and a sponge...

FYI I don't bother with live phyto when i am feeding copepods/brine shrimp/rotifers - I just use dead phyto that is sold in bottles. It works great. Depending on the application you could use rotifer diet, rotigrow plus (you have to order this) or phytofeast.

Thanks rod...right now i'm ok. Any more heaters and i'll be paying pseg the same amount i usually pay in the summer! Count is up over 100 fry! ;D

The problem is that with the pumps off and an open-top the temp looked like it dropped below 75. I moved the heater to the display and the sump fell to 74~73. So basically that heater is on 24/7 for the past 3 days. I had extra heaters but they are now deployed for: brine shrimp bath new 10g...

LOL yes....the frag disc in the background gives you an idea. I think if i lined up all 5 of them on the disc - they wouldn't fill it out. btw - i keep my frag discs in the sump (figured they would get colonized by bacteria) and then took two out to help mitigate the ammonia issues in the fry...

The little guy is still around - but not hanging with the other four (which appear to be slowly developing the 3rd stripe). Here's a pic of the 4 that "hang" sorta together: The hatch didn't happen. I think because my temps across the home and in the tank have dropped well below 80. When i...

wow...good luck. I guess my only consolation is none of the tridacnids I tried are still around. How big is yours? type?

how is everything going...? saw the post about the heater failing.

why not just move everything into the illuminata then you don't have to worry about the 30g... ;)

thanks...without the 5g i'd be stuck so i owe you! The five fish appear ok - one is like huge relative to the others - and one is very runt-like small. There IS some chasing of the smallest - might (gasp) cull the smallest. I'm not sure yet. If this next hatch is captured tonight - then I will...

Ugh I just found out my daughter's ballet recital is that same day...as homer would say "D'oh!"

So my new-year assesment of the tank: Equipment breakdown: AGA 120 Solaris LED lights tunze 7096 on interval tunze 6100x4 reeflo tarpon return pump/skimmer pump MRC 1 skimmer with extension PM Kalk reactor tunze osmolator for ato tunze nanowavebox gfo phosban reactor 55 gallon saltwater/change...

why not use a 3rd party host site like photobucket.com? it's free.

Day 1 thru 10 they were just ugly little things. It isn't until they pass meta before they are anywhere close to being recognizable as baby clownfish. I did not pair them myself. The original owner was Brizjuan but his tank had a crack and he got out of the hobby. He listed the clowns as...

Yeah I was thinking the same thing with the dimples. Maybe my airstone was too strong? But then I raised it up higher and they still kinda hang out around the areas. Perhaps the baby brine congregate in those slow flow areas so it's good eatin?

it'll happen...turn on some barry white or something. ;D

thanks greg - but believe it or not i'm due for another spawn tomorrow night. But if I didn't have any eggs to grab I would have definitely made the trip to meet you!

what about an open top instead? Just have the lights hanging from above? I was thinking it will make access to the display easier...

happy birthday! mnat - my original handle on this board had my anniversary date as part of the handle. ;D