Recent content by steveweast

So that would be a F temp range of 51 F - 66 F. Good to know, thank you. I keep mine at 55 F (12 -13 C range). I see that some online vendors are suggesting keeping these up to 73 F (22 -23 C range).

Steve..... My white bars, shaws, and ornates are doing quite well. BTW, what temp range are finding these at ? Jay...... That skin disease....was it a circular fungus that rapidly engulfed the fish over the course of a few days ? if so, Melafix and Primafix have worked well for a few cold...

A few fun facts.... 1) These worms come in on Fiji rock. If you have Fiji rock, you have a good chance at having a eunicid. These hitchhikers will come in at around 6 inches or less. I see dozens laying on the bottom of the box when Fiji rock comes to my LFS. 2) These guys can grow unnoticed...

I have some bioballs in the overflow for biological....I also have some local cold liverock; but, it is very dense. It's the skimmer that really removes most of the waste from the heavy feedings. I do a 50% water change one a month to keep the nitrates below 10ppm.

The owner of my local dive shop (where I learned to dive) here in Portland, Oregon up and moved to that resort to run its dive operation a couple of months ago. His name is Bob and his wife's name is Barabara. Were they there ? I definiteatly want to go there since they were so great to dive...

There are several watermelon pedigrees out there....but....as the name implies.....the field should be a bright pink/red.... the growing edge should be bright green.... and the eyes should be a green/yellow. This isn't one of the pedigrees....it was a wild colony; but, it gives you an idea as to...

Here's my favorite....OK...OK...so, it's cold water....but, it's still a coral (well...really a colonizing anemone; but, close enough)....and since it was collected from my local waters, it's FREE.....can't get cheaper than that.....

This topic has been popping up on other boards these days with similar tales of incompatability. I feel like I'm very lucky....I've had no issue with my PBT and Achilles....in fact, they pal around together. My PBT has been in my 850gal tank for over 4 years....my Achilles maybe 8 months. [/img]

The blue fish is a australian western bluedevil. I use oceanpure mix and the rock is from our local waters.

Dante....you are correct in the water temps up here being generally colder than 58.....but, I'm balancing Southern Australia temps with Puget Sound temps. Generally, when I dive the Sound, the temps range widely from the upper 30's in winter to the mid 50's in summer. The Australian temps range...

The temp should be as steady as possible......which is easy to do with a chiller. To run a cold tank without a chiller just isn't going to work unless you keep your house at 58F.The stock is the hard thing to get. I either collect my own in Puget Sound or order through a wholesale outfit in...

Actually....I have found that the cold setups are easier to run....less expensive than sps reefs with all the 400 halides and reactors needed.....and more forgiving in water quality. The only thing that draws significant power is the chiller.....which in my case, pulls about 10amps...... which...

No....these tanks are not on my site....they will be when I get around to updating the site though. The tanks are really quite simple... 1/2 hp chiller ap600 Deltec skimmer couple T5's over each tank 1 SEQ 2500gph pump from sump sump/tanks made from 1" thick acrylic to prevent sweating Temp 58...

Well....it's been awhile since I posted pics of my two "experimental" cold water reefs.....so, here are a few pics that I recently took. The two tanks (one 120...one 45) seem to be doing well. I'm still trying to find/collect stock......it's a slow process. I did manage to acquire a few cold...

Thanks Matt....my source in Tasmania (where I got my boxfish) actually had them on their availability list....but, their pics were so bad that it didn't look like anything interesting.....my bad, I guess. I'll have to include some on my next order as they are native to southern Australia.