Recent content by PamRich

I have a plenum with a 3" d protected sandbed above and 3" of unprotected sand above that. It has been set up like this for 10 years -- my tank is 30" d. I see no advantage to setting it up this way except that it made the tank shallower for me to work in. For asthetic reasons the sand...

You really hit the nail on the head... I need to change my bulbs and recharge the sandbed. I do have some Emerald crabs but noticed 2 bodies/shells just recently and my snail population is dwindling -- I think my hermit crabs are to blame -- not the red legs but I have left handed & blue legged...

Hi Andy, Thank you so much for all the information! I am guessing that I didn't concentrate enough of the feeding.... I feed only once a day. I am having some problems that I just recently noticed.... I have had a lot of fine particulate matter covering my live rock and sandbed. I have a 6"...

Hi Andy, Do you recommend the Pseudanthias squamipinnis or the male or bunch / harem? I will need to do more specific research before I get another Anthias. I don't know much about fish and I never kept many in my reef. Thanks for your time. Pam

Thanks Andy & Mario, I should have posted sooner.... your advice was great - but I waited too long. I was feeding mashed up raw shrimp. I couldn't find him for days and then by the time I did see him it was too late and I couldn't get him out of the reef in time to save him and he died. I...

I have a 235 gallon reef tank with lots of live rock. My tank inhabitants (fish) are: an 18"L Engineer Goby, a 2" L Blackcap Basslet, a 4" L Clarkii Clown - (Wild caught) and a 1" L Fourline Wrasse. I recently got a 2" L Blue-eyed Anthias. The Anthias has been in the display tank for almost...

Actually my tank is a mess now. The size is 72 w x 30 h x 24 d. I have a 100 gal sump but with the displacement of 200 + / - lbs of live rock/rubble, a 6" sand bed and overflows. I actually have 270 gallons of water in the system. This tank was set up 9 years ago as a combo Jaubert /...

Sorry, what is your question tah532?

< tiny ones, my largest is 1.5" diameter and they don't grow more than that. They are all white and are all over the Hitchhicker forum. They are true brittelstars, > Yep Mihai, those are the sand stars I meant, never knew them to be "true brittlestars" learn somthing new every day I guess...

Whith regard to the suggestion : <to get a few tiny brittle stars from a local reefer.> Don't get green brittle stars as they get huge and will eat your fish, red serpent stars are better. -- I think what Mihai might have been suggesting were tiny sand stars... not brittle stars

the Cerith eggs I am talking about are white and laid in a zig zag pattern about 5-6 inches long on the glass. They stay in place for less than a week and then they are just "gone". I have seen the strand start to pull away from the glass but never witnssed any hatch - just curious that the...

I have never witnessed a "hatch' but I do notice that off all the snail varietys I have had the Cerith is the only one that doesn't eventually dwindle off in my 240 gallon tank - I often wondered if these snails actually are hatching and I just don't see it happen - as stated earlier they seem...

Thanks Matt, he is a cool fish, I use to have a pair but sadly the smaller of them died a couple of years ago. I just had no idea they got so BIG.... I rarely see him completely out from under the rockwork he is quite shy - sometimes when the lights are out he comes completely out but otherwise...

OK Before you tease me..... the Goby is not tallking to me.... It is the shape of his mouth that is like a Goby rather than an Eel..... <smile>

Thank you HClH2OFish, That is what I was thinking eel too but behavior and his mouth kept saying goby - but he is sooooo big and I keep seeing engineer goby with a white stripe down the back and his markings looked like a snowflake eel. Thought I bought a "pig in the poke" hee hee..... Anyway...