Recent content by Tiresias

If you were to stock a 75 gallon reef with only 4-5 fish, which would you choose? I'm thinking perhaps 1 small hippo or yellow tang, a flame hawk, six-line pygmy wrasse, and a few green chromis or one clownfish

You know, my family and I moved out to the suburbs just so we could raise our kids away from crabs, and now this.

I was just wondering what measures all of you have taken to lessen the chance that an aquarium/sump flood might occur. Float valves? Redundant pumps? The reason I ask is that I'll be living on a third floor condo. We'll be placing the aquarium in a loft to minimize water seepage down toward...

My aquarium had the very same noise since its inception. I too never lost any fish or snails. How's your snail population? If you're not suffering any losses I'd bet on a pistol shrimp.

I'm now in the planning stages of my 75 gal. reef - and will be forced to remain in that stage until our condo is completed. So far sitting in the basement I have a 75 gallon All-Glass reef-ready and an Aqualine Buschke Aquastar 2x250watt hqi system. Step #3 is the main pump. What pump and...

Hello everybody. After a brief hiatus I'm ready to begin reefing again. I had a tiny 20 gallon reef that I needed to dismantle due to a move in which I kept euphyllia (torch hammer frogspawn) for the most part. Because of space and budget, I'm going to be limiting myself to a spare 29 gallon...

It could be expelling some of its symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae?). My torch coral did it now and then and seemed healthy.

I read recently that some soft corals excrete toxins that may be harmful to neighboring corals, yet I see aquariums that are chock full of soft and stony corals with no apparent harm done. How does one prevent this behavior? Can soft corals and stony corals safely be kept in the confines of a...