Recent content by mgraf

I agree, It would tick me off if someone was watching my tank and messed with my parameters, right or wrong. And with my luck, his tank would crash and I would be holding the smoking gun!

I use a fiberglass water tank from an old water softner. Cut it down a bit, it will hold 15-20 gallons. My system seems to evap. about a gallon a day depending. Anything smaller than 5 gallons just seemed to be the same as adding it to my tank daily. Every time I looked at my 5 gallon ato...

Use a turkey baster and blow all the crap you can out of the pores of the rock. It is amazing the amount that can get stored in there. I do this at least once a month and am always shocked at what comes out. I had hair algae in the first few months as well and incorporated an algae scrubber...

I crunch my snails with a fine needle nose pliars. Is there anything that will eat these things? They are rapidly spreading throughout my tank as well

They are mojanos. I had them for a while. Started out got them from lfs on piece of rock. They were cool green with red tips. They stayed put for quite awhile, then they began to split and found little ones every where. I got them all out one by one. Aptasia x works on them.

Koles are hardy imo. I put mine in a 17 gallon system I had with copper for 6 weeks then put him in my dt. No ich! Great fish, always out and about, munching on algae on rocks.

just keep on vacuming it in that corner, hit it good a couple times this week. Remove any possible nutrients, decreased light cycle and see what happens.

I'd go Kole Tang. Love mine!

I have some in my 65, I think it is cool. One point, I always see little colinista (sp) snails on it when lights are out, I believe they are grazing on it.

My goby is out all the time, and has become one of my families favorite fish.

Another good thing to do is get a turkey baster, and blow as much gunk out of the pores of your live rock. Tons of uneaten food particles as well as other organic material can accumulate there. I once had a hair algae problem, but only on a few rocks. After doing this for a few days the algae...

If you like the waterfall idea, have you ever thought about ATS. I built one into my sump and it does help a little, plus I have two fans, one in and one out of my stand. They are hooked to my controller and work well. Ofcourse, I haven't had it operational in the summer months but, we will see.

You can check your thermometers by placing them in a glass of ice water, they should read 32-33 degrees

Ill do the refractometer shipped for 20, pm me

They will find each other. Mine took a week or so, maybe even a little longer. I used to never see the shrimp but, now they are all over the tank and are my families favorite thing to watch. Be patient, the pair will come together.