Recent content by judyb

Thanks for the response. I was hoping that the thing would not destroy my dsb or release anything toxic by digging around. :D My tank is 18 months old, a 20 gal with about with about 25# of live rock and my dsb ranges from 3.5 to 5.5 inches and the coralline algae is gradually covering the...

I bought a couple small hermit crabs last week. The guy at the LFS also included a handful of empty shells from the bottom of the tank for future crab homes. Some of the empty shells turned out not to be empty and I ended up with a couple extra hermit crabs :) . However, I also ended up...

Well, it's gone. For the last two days it's been moving down the glass -- first all strung out and then all bunched up again. When I got home last night, there was one long "string" still visible, and it appeared to be going into the substrate. Since the substrate is about the same color as...

I have access to a dissecting scope, but I'd have to cut off a piece of it to use the scope -- I don't want to piss this thing off you know. I have a 10x hand lens that I'll try. Wish I'd had the camera at home last night -- it was long and skinny again. I looked at a couple nudibranch...

Oh, to answer your other questions It's in a rather low flow area I haven't noticed that anything sticks to the threads, but it could be catching something microscopic. The threads are rather diffuse -- do not originate from a single point or plane -- and have an irregular dendritic...

Thanks. I figured it couldn't be too difficult to post an image, but I'd never done one before. Sorry for the quality of the photo. I couldn't get the camera to focus on it. When I tried to get closer, it kept focusing on something in the background. Wouldn't a nudibranch have a head and a...

http://people.tamu.edu/~jnb180d/myweb/thingy.jpg I'm not sure how to post an image, but I think if you follow this link it will take you to a picture of this thing. It has morphed again. The thing I'm talking about is the white thing that looks a little like a paint splatter to the right of...

Sorry I don't have a picture, but I'll try to describe what's in my tank. The first time I noticed it was about a week ago. It was white, about four inches long and 1/8 inch wide. My first thought was that someone had dripped Elmer's glue onto the outside of the tank. When I looked more...

I love my CBS, but I did see him grab and shake a clown fish. The clown was dead the next morning, but not eaten. Also, saw him grab another fish by the tail as it swam past, but it seem more like a practical joke than an attack because he let go right away. Still, he/she is quite an...

I have one three blue-leggeds and I used to have 3 red-leggeds and 6 astreas, but one BL is a carnivore . Now I'm down to 3 astreas and the 3 BLs. I think I'll remove the BLs and give them to the LFS.

Bless you, BReefcase. I had decided last night while looking at my tank to try something similar to your instructions though I didn't know exactly how to proceed, so I am absolutely delighted at your detailed plan. Thank you, thank you, thank you. My CC is about one inch deep, so maybe I'll...

Thanks for all y'all's input, but I'm feeling dumber by the minute. I will look at other posts about this, but can someone give me an idea how to do this? Something like "Changing Your Substrate for Complete Idiots"?? Is scooping the CC out the best way to go? Siphon maybe? Some of it is...

I also am a newbie and I have LOTS of questions. Definitely lighting is a big issue. One problem I have is that I don't know enough to understand most of the posts I have read about lighting. How about some really basic instruction on various additives and about testing water quality. I've...

This doesn't sound too promising. I was also worried that if I just add the live sand to the tank it would harm the critters that I have. Seems that I read a post where someone added the live sand by putting it in a baggy and letting it ooze out, but I don't know if that was over crushed...

When I first set up the tank I just took the advice of the salesperson so I have crushed coral. That's bad? If so, should I try to remove/replace it? Can I add sand over it? (I'm grasping for something easy with that one)