Recent content by Bobzarry

I am on a mac right now so I get a blue question mark. Bob

What are you doing with the frogs Dan? Bob

FWIW .....I have not seen anything that will increase a pod population more then feeding the tank on flake food. Flake food is very easy for pods to brake down. I have seen a 30 gal tank fed exclusively on flake food house a pair of manderins for about 5 years and the pod population didn't look...

I use a dremel with cutting wheel and it works perfectly. Gives you great control over the shape you want. Bob

OK I have posted this before...but here goes: Purchase any comercial flat aquarium background your heart desires. Smear the back of the tank with a coating of vegetable oil. Place the cut to fit background on the back and squigy the air bubbles out using a credit card or spatula. The results is...

3 years and counting Bob

I just purchased from this company " Ocean Encounters"http://oceanencounter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc great prices and fast service. I always order by Phone, and they answered all my questions. Thought you guys may want to know. PS: right now they have specials on alot of MH stuff Bob

I also have a 55 with 2x175 MH and also have 2x110 VHO actinic. before that I had 3x96 PC 10k. When I switched from PC to MH....WOW. what a difference. The color improved significantly on all my corrals and growth did as well. My only regret was that I purchased the PC's at all. and as far as...

Over the years I have found the best way for me to keep a large population of pods is to feed "flake". I keep a dragonette and a red scooter in my 55 and a friend keeps 2 manderins in a 30. Flake is fed twice a day and in both tanks the pod population is quite large and has been for years. The...

I use a submersable heater and a muffin fan on a temp controller. My tank ranges from 79-night to 82 day. I run 2x175 MH and 2x110 VHO atinics. Its been running that way for several years now and knock on wood all has been realy doing well. I think people can tend to over fiddle and over worry...

I feel Ph plays a bigger role when it comes to dino then water changes. What is your Ph? Try getting it to the range of 8.5-8.6. Bob

But keep the faith. in mid to late summer the gulf stream swings in close enough that you may encounter some of the tropical species of sea life. One never knows what one will find but I have come across butterflies, angels, seahorses, big eyes, damsels, squirrel fish, nudibranchs, goat fish...

I have been using the oil on method for over 20 years. It works great! its an easy method of aplication and the vegetable oil wont hurt anything. Another good tip when using the oil method is to cut the background slightly larger then the exposed glass when looking at it. most glass tanks have...

I did my 55 a few years ago. I had started with CC. All I did was remove all the rocks and animals into plastic bins. I then removed all the CC and tossed that in the dumpster. I used Southdown sand enough to get a 4" sand bed. I used my diatom filter to help clear things out a bit (not too much...

I keep my MH's 2x175 on for 13 hours and run my atinics 2x110 for 14 hours on a 55. Never found it to be a problem and all is doing well with plenty of growth. Bob