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awesome thanks for hte drip technique.. i went back and they were like "we dont replace saltwater, cuz they are harder to keep" but i bitched and they replaced him... hes in a cup now with a drip going..... hopefully hell make it...

i just spray painted it yesterday and the difference is amazing... quick questions: do any of you ever have a problem with a fish bein soo shy that you never see it eat... im afraid my damsel is going to die of starvation cuz i never see him eat.. i drop like 2-3 flakes a couple times a day and...

thanks guys.. the fire was still dead this morning just in a different spot.... only reason i bought them was because the tests all read zero except nitrate... he said nitrate was at the first tiny tick above zero but he said it was perfect... i know a week is a little short for cycling time...

ok so i just saw the peppermint under a rock with his feelers moving.. so hes alive.. and if thats how shrimps sleep then im screwed with the fire shrimp.. he is definately in the corner laying on his side... not moving any of his tentacles....

ok so today i added a peppermint and a fire shrimp after getting my tank water tested at Petco (cuz my test kit wont be here till like 2 weeks,,, damn ebay) and i was just wondering how they generally sleep... the guy said they should be fine with a simple "bag in water" technique that u...

slower is better,, the only thing that happen fast are bad things...

yea my recommendation wasnt for critters it was for reducing cycling time... but if you havent had a problem then obviously my theory is wrong... go on with your bad self!

i bought ocean water to start up the cycling... my thoughts were that ocean water would help the cycling process because its natural... with the salt mix you need to make saltwater with RO/DI water and can be a hassle to mix, test, mix, etc... and basically its man-made saltwater so i figured...

i just saw one too in my tank... guess since they generally come out at night i never saw it.. but there it is "walking" on the glass same long shell and long "tail" awesome...

anyone around this general area that has a reef tank with frags they might be willing to sell/give to a newbie? it'll be a few weeks before i'm ready to add anything but i am looking for somewhere to get frags that i dent have to pay $50+ at the LFS... everything there was sooo expensive, only...

just a question on top of your post: i know with a 40gal and 15gal sump its prolly necessary, but with a 5.5 gal like i have would i need to do all that? or just move the 1 piece of LR that can fall over and move the tank carefully and replace the 1 piece of LR.... should i lower the water level...

indeed... very interesting.. and sucky.. but interesting all the same... do tell

good point about the shift... maybe ill paint it... ill see if i can find a blue i like.. but if not i have black spray paint... how do you recommend i do it? take out the HOB tape off the top and sides and just spray it?

no complaints from my fish yet... but either way my tank wont be any warmer than 73-74 unless i buy another heater like that.. my room is 69-71 degrees which keeps the tank around 70

i have that exact heater.. and i leave it on all the time.. it took my tank from ~70 to about ~73-74 before i got my lights... now i have my lights but i havent witnessed much of a temp difference with them on or off yet... i have the 12" corallife 2x 18watt 50/50 on top of my tank... while the...

not quite that much yellow on him he looks more like this one: http://www.thatpetplace.com/LiveFish/Pr ... etail.aspx he puts those spines up if you put your hand on the tank near where he is... its cute.. lol oh... and about covering the back to send more light back into the tank...

figured it was time for some new pics... so while doing some research online i see that my fish is indeed not a fiji devil.. looks almost identical but he is a little too round... if anyone knows the true name let me know... i guess the next step is to build some sort of stand for that...

so my lights came.. i got a fiji devil damsel to swim around as my only fish,,, but he seems to have perched himself inside the liferock (like literally inside a cave in one of those holes) and he wont come out... like at all.. im afraid he has died in there and i wont be able to get him out...

OOOH OOOOH and also: i saw my first signs of life today while rearranging the rocks a little bit to save some real estate in the back... i saw a very tiny snail, a very tiny slug (one with shell one without) and a little shrimp/plankton, or something... it was swimming around when i turned the...

used my 18v cordless combo set to make myself a lexan lid for the tank.. cut almost exatly around the filter (which leaves me no room to move it, but i like the placement) it fits like a glove... and a makeshift handle makes it easy to lift up and drop food down into... =0) pics soon...