Recent content by robby818

Thanks for the advice KidNano. Yes, you were right it was attached by suction cups. Three of the four are still at the bottom because they wouldn't let go. Once it was out, i inspected it to see if I could save it but it appears to be pretty dead. I got a maxi-Jet 600 from the LFS and it...

The pump in my 12 gallon nano (Cubemasters brand purchased from Costco) failed last night. I was doing a water change, unplugged the pump, replugged it in after the change and a few minutes later it stopped working. I can it hear it sort of humming, but it is not pumping. So, I think it's...

The last few polyps died. It is gone for sure. Trip to my LFS tomorrow. :D

So I bought a Peppermint shrimp to deal with my small Aiptasia problem. Worked great! He ate all of the Aiptasia in 5 days--even the big ones that some people say need to be removed by hand. Then he went after the little head of frogspawn that I bought a few days ago. He pretty much ate...

My yellow clown goby exhibited similar symptoms to those described by the original poster. I could not get him to eat what my firefish (only other fish) was eating (frozen mysis, cyclopeeze freeze dried, and frozen cyclops). I tried soaking some of this food in garlic. He would put pieces...

I got one a few days ago because my LFS recommended it as a way to deal with my flatworms. Less than a day after I put him in, I saw him picking off flatworms. Very cool! When people say that they are difficult to keep in a nano is it because they have a tough time getting them to eat? I...

Just wanted to update my original post. My LFS recommended a Scooter Blenny as a natural method of dealing with flatworms. I bought one and noticed that 24 hours later he has already started picking off the flatworms from the liverock. Kind of cool to see. I have seen many posts...

Thanks skipm. My LFS guy didn't have any to sell so I'll have to re-visit this idea later.

My LFS has some macroalgae in one of its tanks. It looks like little grapes and I think that it is Caulerpa. It looks kind of nice and was thinking about asking to buy some to add to my 12 gallon nano. I have heard that there are benefits to macroalgae--filtration, reducing phospahates but I...

you're right. I find one or two on the glass every now and then. I'll look into FWE. Since I don't have too many left, I guess FWE would be pretty safe. Removing the infested coral and rinsing it off did make a big difference. I'm new so had I known what they were I would have treated...

That helps ALOT Jesse. I removed the piece of coral that had the majority of flatworms and squirted it several times with a turkey baster. That got a lot of the worms out of my tank. I then spent some time suctioning up the stragglers that got left behind. It looks much better already. I'll...

I bought some coral that has a ton of these things crawling all over it. Bad?

low flow but its getting a lot of light. i'll take your suggesiton and move it down to the sand. thanks to all for their suggestions.

that's good news. I noticed that it started doing it again this morning. I'll have to see how it looks after work today. I wonder what it(the stringy white stuff) is.

Thanks for the info. everything was fine for the first 24 hours. It seemed to acclimate well. Another mushroom that I introduced in the same manner is doing well. I noticed the stuff coming out at the time that a Trochus snail was brushing up against the mushroom-maybe it didn't like the...