Recent content by benthos

Mihai, yours looks a little different... note the white bands at the base of each spike on my pic.

known to prefer any certain kind...sps, lps, soft? Im keeping my fingers crossed for xenia :twisted:

this would be a horrible thing as that is one of the nicest corals in my tank. thanks for all your replies. If I dont keep it I hear you could always extract the rue from the creature. :D

from what I can find alot of hype then people saying their harmless and will actually redistribute coraline. first off did I id this correctly? Should I attempt to keep this in a 40g reef? any horror stories or mostly well behaved?

My 40g breeder. going on 6 month

No, just a single 250w coralvue 14k over a 40 B. just the right blue IMO

I prefer a pendant over a canopy and after I set my tank up it looked pretty slick. This was until I turned the MH on and the temp shot up to 85 and now Im stuck looking at a small fan on the back of the tank where a canopy would of hid it. I could always get a chiller but who has money for...

ouch! $$$ Do you run a line from the tap to the pump or can you just submerse it in a 55g barrel full of water and recycle your rodi waste water as well?

think a mag 7 would have enough pressure to run a 5 stage rodi unit? found out my water lines dont supply enough pressure and a mag 7 is what I have laying around.

This is what I am concerned about with only a 40g tank could wet skimmate be fluctuating the salinity?

yes, Alpheus soror... yellow/orange with a black dot on its tail and purple claws. all night long sounds like there is a mantis in the tank but is described as harmless and mostly a scavenger besides the occasional threat to small shrimp. The fish must have jumped then and one of my cats had...

Ive got this beautiful bullseye pistol shrimp bought thinking It could host with with my watchman goby then upon reading further about them I found out this is one of the pistol shrimps that dont take a host. :( So a week ago I noticed that I hadnt seen my orchid dotty. Cant say if it jumped...

Very happy with the Compact reefkeeper 5 stage unit from air water ice. Specially coming from a kent bare bones 2 stage unit. Finally got a TDS meter through air water ice as well and Im embarrased to say what the Kent unit tested at. Suffice to say Im now algae free.

Just my experience but Im growing out a monti cap that started smaller than a pinky nail (about 10" in diameter now!). About half a dozen acros I grew out started from about the size when you break the tip of you pencil. When I had my nano I collected a majority of acros from the bottom of...

thanks, havnt completly got rid of alittle cyano on the sand bed. Im trying to get away without a skimmer and relying on the macro. My two stage RO unit isnt the greatest either so Im working on updating that first.