Recent content by ericbosco

Thanks for your info. Turns out it is an elephant ear. I'll research it some more, but will probably leave it in there. I'll just get a non perching fish.

8pm last night, my bicolor blenny was swimming around happy as can be. 10pm last night, I find it dead, with a big chunk of it missing from its side. I find it right next to this thing that came with my live rock that was inflated. It typically looks like a frilly mushroom, laying flat on the...

Hi All, finally decided to get an RO/DI unit to replace the TWP. I want to store 30 gallons of water at a time in a rubermaid trashcan with lid. I was told by someone who has a saltwater tank that I'd need to "cure" the trash can somehow by using salt and sticking it in the sun. Is this needed...

Hi, thanks for the help. He is breathing still a little fast but all the other fish are OK and amonia reads 0. He has been in this tank for 7 months now eating a lot and doing great, and this just happened in the past few days. I do have another small tank I can put him in, but I don't know how...

Still the same, hasn't eaten today either. This makes it abotu 3 days that he has not had any food that I've feed the tank... any ideas appreciated.

Hi all, my flame hawk seems to be ill. He is hiding behind a rock, has not eaten and his color is less vibrant. Also seems to be breathing more heavily. I've noticed this odd behavior for a few days, especially the not eating part, but it has gotten worse tonight. Recent changes were the...

ack.. forgot to mention I need to leave tomorrow for a week. I have someone I trust feeding the tank and have auto-topoff.

Just got back from a 4 day business trip and noticed my anchor coral is not opening up at much at all. I quickly checked water parameters and they are fine (amonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 2.5, Ph 8.2, temp 76, salinit 1.027, phosphate 0). All fish look good, my blue mushrooms are open and my...

This is what it looks like (finally got a good pic to come out): What do you all think? Looking good? How much more should it expand before it looks totally healthy? I plan to keep it in this position for at least a week before I move it to see how it does. Thanks, -Eric

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't know exactly what "moderate" flow is. It is placed about 2 feet away from a Maxijet 900 powerehead. The powerhead is on a wave maker and does not point directly at it, rather about 3" to the side of it. With my hand near the coral, I can't feel much current...

Hi All, yesterday I just got an green anchor coral at the LFS. The skeleton structure is T-Bone shape. During the trip from the LFS to home, the polyps retreated mostly in the skeleton, but much to my happiness, after about 1 hour in my tank they were back to how they looked at the LFS, about...

My false percs have their mouths open a lot of the time and especially after feeding make some really alarming movements. The larger of the two sometimes looks like it is violently gagging. In other occasions, the large one sort of rams into the small one and the small one has what looks like a...

Thanks for all the help guys. I definitely won't get two, if I get any it will be one. I think I should be OK since I'd get a small one and it would be the last fish introduced and all my other fish are semi-agressive and should be able to take care of each other. Or I'll give in and try a...

Today I was feeding the tank and a piece of food (formula 2 frozen) hit the sand. Small, very very thin tentacles came out of the sand along with a body they were attached to came out as well. The whole thing was translucent, the tentacles were about 1" long. It shoved the food bit in the body...

I'm thinking about adding at least one, or possibly 2 yellowtail damsels to my tank as my last fish additions. Are damsels like clownfish, that if I select two small ones, they will get along, or will they fight with one another? Thanks is 38 Gallons, other inhabitants are 1 Flame Hawk, 2 False...