On Saturday I went to my first frag swap, hosted by my local reef club, the Bay Area Reefers (BAR). Here's my loot in the quarantine bucket: It was a little overwhelming actually. There were swarms of people, a pleathora of raffles, and the picking rounds seemed to flash before my eyes. I couldn't find everything I was looking for but I'm very happy with what I got. For some reason I ended up ...
Updated 02-18-2011 at 09:17 PM by gerbilbox
I got my toadstool yesterday and it looked beautiful in the fish store but has no tentacles up yesterday or today. Any help please I want to make sure I didnt waste $80.
I got this cool fish for my new tank because I saw it and I couldn't pass it up. Shy doesn't begin to describe it. It literally found the only hole in my rockwork that makes a cave and hid there for a few days. It only just started to come out and swim around tonight. So of course, I have the mother load of PEmysis floating around in my tank right now hoping that he'll snatch some up that floats by his hidey hole. (SCORE! Just gobbled one up as I'm typing) I'm not upset that he's so shy. His little ...
Well, My LFS advised me to try the chemical - Stability; to Cycle the tank with and after a weeks worth these are the readings taken at noon today. temp - 80.5 SG - 1.024 PH - 8.0 Ammon - 0.00 ppm Nitrite - 0.00 ppm Nitrate - 20 ppm. I dont have test kits yet for Alkalinity or calcium... Am thinking that a 10% water change is in order and to see what the Nitrate comes down to???? or perhaps a 20%?? ...
LOL I thought melev can do a teaser post, so can I... I've got two boxes full of stuff. Pending transfer into my tank now.