Recent content by TurboRook

My suggestions. Keep blasting your rocks with a turkey baster or powerhead. Siphon off any detritus that is collecting on or underneath the rockwork. Make sure to rinse all the juices from the frozen Mysis with RO before adding it to the tank (the packing juice is usually loaded with...

104th St. in L.A. (off of Aviation near LAX) has Sea Dwelling Creatures, Quality Marine, Underwater World, and Walt Smith's import facility. Plus, ERI International is in that neighborhood, too. They would all be worth looking into.

Absolutely normal and common behaviors, especially when females get to breeding size. :)

Yellow Assesors are a nice, small fish if you are looking something yellow.

From Lone Star: Bright Green Plating Montipora sp. Bright green Montipora sp. forming thick soft plates. This coral can be used to "glue" aquascapes or even encrust over large areas of a reef display. Very hardy and very fast growing lush green color. These are higher generation tank raised...

Lone star coral creations (www.lonestarcorals.com) sells an encrusting montipora frag that might do the job perfectly. You might ask them for more info on it.

As far as Bali is concerned, I know that using cyanide to catch fish is illegal. I have a feeling they don't have the resources to police it effectively. For example: When I was there two years ago, I stayed for a couple dats at Amed (a fishing village on the eastern most point of the...

I don't think you are crazy at all. You seem to be going about these additions in the right manner. I would guess there are probably many species of corals that the triggers would show no interest in. It will take a lot of careful research to find out what species those are, but it doesn't...

I have 2x96w on my 40g. I am successfully keeping sinularia, sarcpophyton, and litophyton leathers, xenia, green star polyps, bubble coral, hammer coral, cupcoral, fox coral, and a couple types of mushrooms. In fact the 2x96w has even been too strong for some of my mushrooms. My suggestion...

By all means, use freshwater dips to get rid of the flatworms before adding them to your main tank. In my experience, siphoning and freshwater dips are by far the most effective methods of erradicating them. Wrasses and mandarins eat some flatworms, but not all species, and the C. varians...

I would definitely recommend feeding with a live phytoplankton food like DT's. Feeding with phytoplankton will let you hedge your bets if the the lighting isn't quite enough (although I think it is probably just fine). Mike

Close Bodine. Malachite is a green-tinted, copper-containing mineral. Malachite green is an industrial dye with a similar color as the mineral malachite (hence its name) that happens to also have medicinal use. Malachite green is an organic compound that contains no copper. It is pretty...