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Personally of the damsels I always thought the Yellow-tail was nicer (chromis and clowns excluded). If you take away the Yellow-tails LR/hiding place home / - and re-arrange everything it will mellow out (or should). Probably the most vicious damsels in my opinion are the blue devil and that...
Not sure if a skimmer fits? or if it really skims the rated gph?
Found a couple helpful links:
Skimmer Comparison
Controller Comparison
Credit: Aquarium controllers.com
Skimmer Chart by ReefCentral members
Straegen / Robbyg / Davidryder / Jdieck
Thanks To Davidryder and Jdieck...
thanks david (and sorry harryk for the hijack) - but I'm totally in "compare" mode right now. equipment purchases (tank, pumps, skimmer, reactors) etc. are the order of the day. Eventually I'll get LR - probably from Marco or maybe Dr. Mac - but I'm just lurking the forum and seeing what other...
I must have missed this earlier in the thread - but when did you get the LR and if you don't mind me asking -from where? (I'm still doing my shopping).
I assume you have an overflow?
I'd try and put two on on end, then the other plus the return of the overflow on the other side...So then the center of the tank would get flow from both sides. Experiment and see how that goes.
they are noisy and are "safe" in the sense they won't eat your reef. If a small fish or invert is dumb enough to "walk" into the pistol - it may stun / kill it.
The symbiotic relationship between the goby and pistol is typically found in the pacific. The carribbean pistol that typically hitches...
what kind of powerheads/flow (gph) do you have in the tank? Do you have a pic of the tank with the cloudiness?
It's rather unusual for a tank that is mature to have any cloudiness from the substrate. Did you add sand or a new ph? just thinking out loud what might be causing this.
Nice! Most people think they are rather gross looking - glad you like the one you got!
Though - do you think there is enough sand in your nano to keep it healthy?
even though it's temporary - you could setup an account with a free media storage provider like photobucket.
Upload your digital pics there, then copy the IMG link and past them here to post the pics.
personally I would not re-use (ALL) the sand from an established tank. I'd start a brand new bed of sand and take a cup of my old sand from my old tank to re-seed the new tank.
I don't even know if I would do this with a fellow-hobbyists' tank (take a cup of their established sand) unless I...
Sorry to say this, but personally i wouldn't use it opened or brand new. If you have filter feeding corals - you're better off getting DTs. Although I believe quite a few people on the board use a food called "Rods" - i have no experience with it so can't comment.
If you don't have filter...
Not a lot of info on these since folks normally drive the market on peppermints, skunk cleaners and fireshrimp.
Wetwebmedia has this:
Periclimenes pedersoni Chace 1958, the Caribbean Anemone Shrimp, Pederson's Shrimp. Should always be kept with Anemone hosts. A great cleaner of fishes, but...
Great job - thanks much to the organizers!
I wish we could have gone...I elbowed it out with parents/friends of 100 plus ballerinas. Fun...I feel asleep towards the end. :P
Are we ordering more orange squeeshies for this 08 frag swap? I missed out!
Sorry to hear about the loss. I don't think it should be an issue. It's gonna poop a bunch later so if you're concerned about nitrates - consider that. Otherwise - nothing to worry about....other than your fish-hungry anemone.
I used to feed my anemone silversides...never had a problem eating...