Recent content by Abarnswell

Hi, Everybody!! I am in a dire situation with my 15 gallon tank. Aiptasia have literally taken over... I have hundreds of them. Before, when they weren't this bad, I used Joe's Juice to kill all of the ones I had, but a few months later, there were even more of them. Now I have hundreds in a...

Mine were GREEN. Goodness, how many varieties are there?? My green ones didn't appear to hurt anything, because all of my corals thrived during this period, no harm to them.

I've made peace with my bristleworms. If they don't bother me, I won't bother them. :)

I used to have a SERIOUS infestation of flatworms -- we're talking thousands, millions of them. I hated them, all over the glass, all over everything. I read that you should just ignore them. They won't hurt anything. Eventually, the infestation will simply disappear. And viola, one day my...

I was using Joe's Juice in my 15 gallon the other day to treat an infestation of aiptasia when I inadvertantly doused a bristleworm with the Juice. It killed the bristleworm almost immediately. He curled right up and croaked. Joe's Juice says it's harmless to all other things in the tank...

Yep, it's grape. I'm afraid trashing the rocks isn't an option, because a) I don't have many rocks to begin with, and b) my rocks are covered with Pulsing Xenia, which is the host for my pair of Clowns, as well as the main focus of my tank. Quite a lot of the caulerpa died off when it went...

Sounds like a good idea in theory, but in my case I don't think it would work. It's just a 15 gallon reef tank, with a pair of clowns who think they own the entire tank! Oh, wait, they do. I've tried adding another small fish to the tank, and they went ballistic on it and I had to remove it. So...

My tank is overrun with caulerpa, which I know is bad stuff because it can go sexual (crash) and really screw up your water params. I've been trying to pull the stuff out in handfuls, but it's slow going. It has very tightly embedded itself through my rocks. Well, just yesterday it went nutso...

Thanks, Skip! That's exactly what I was asking. I wasn't sure, because the flow "looked" to be the same to me. But I did change out the larger "50" impeller magnet for the smaller "20" impellar magnet, so I guess I have the correct flow that I need now. Thanks for clarifying this for me! I...

These little guys are Carinotetraodon travancoricus (Dwarf Puffers), not Green Spotted Puffers (Tetraodon nigroviridis). The Carinotetraodon travancoricus are true 100% freshwater fish that do not exceed 1 inch in length (true dwarves), and they remain freshwater all of their lives. While...

Hi again, Ed Based on what you've told me, I don't think it's a seahorse. There's just no way one could have gotten in your tank based on what you've said. They don't come in on live rock -- they wouldn't survive it. It was probably some bit of something (algae? sponge? a piece of coral...

I know this is sort of off topic, as it is freshwater, not marine, but... I have always loved/wanted a puffer, but my marine tanks are not suited for puffers, so no go. Just this past week, however, I "discovered" freshwater dwarf puffers, which grow to about 1 inch in length. They are so...

Hi, Guys All you techie folks out there, can you explain to me... I had an AquaClear 50 on a 15 gallon tank. It's been fine for a long time -- I needed a strong flow -- but now due to new tank inhabitants, the flow is too high. So, I took out the impeller of the 50 and replaced it with the...

Where did it come from? Did you buy it? Did you get an order in recently for something else? Can you post a picture? Seahorses typically move up and down. The slime is probably brown algae covering its body -- that's not unusual and really isn't a problem. It doesn't hurt the seahorse. It...

Yes, hydroids are a huge problem with dwarf seahorses. They don't really bother the larger species, but still I don't want them in there. I believe Panacur is the treatment for getting rid of hydroids. There's also another product called Hydrox, I believe, for getting rid of hydroids. Looks...