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JEN H

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  • Birthday 07/05/1979

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  • Location
    Southwest Austin (Brodie and Gatling Gun Road)
  • Tank Size
    210g&29g
  • Gender
    Male

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      If anyone is looking to buy a 2004 Mustang GT please let me know. Also if anyone is interesting in renting a house on the southwest side of town let me know.

  3. My husband and I give our vote for Aqua Dome. I happened to find it online when we were moving from Columbus, OH down here. We had to ship a tank of fish down here overnight, and Hunter made sure to give them a tank and take care of them until we were able to get our tank set up. After that, we have been a customer there 100% of the time. I don't know of any LFS that would have done that for us. Hunter, Gary, and Terry are all great folks, and they have alot of experience in fish keeping between all of them. They never steer us wrong when picking anything, and we have had great luck there with livestocks and corals.
  4. If your fish has popeye, I would recommend getting it out of your tank and into quarantine to treat it. We had a bannerfish that got popeye in our big tank. He didn't make it, and it is hard to say if they will make it or not. No one seems to be sure what causes that problem. We have read that it could be a bacterial infection to worse. We got a powder med that we put into the QT water. We dosed as it said. The fish didn't make it, but hopefully yours will. Good luck!
  5. We had issues with our cleaner shrimp when we first got them. It took a couple batches to get two that hung around... And then we lost one of them after Christmas.... So we are down to one cleaner in our 210 gallon for now.
  6. Could you possibly put an emerald crab down there for the bubble algae? I know that they are one of the few inverts that actually eats that stuff.
  7. My husband and I just completed the creation of our first under tank refugium. I have to admit that it is not as pretty as the kind you buy for around $300, but it is going to work the same, and we just really want it for the benefits it gives to having a larger tank. Here is what we did..... Picked up a clear 24 L storage container from Wal-Mart for around $7 Picked up a 1 3/4 inch bulk head from the Dome (cheap) One 10 lb bag of miracle mud from the Dome ($60) One bag of various salt water plants from the Dome (not to pricey) Smallest Rio pump at the Dome 3 feet of 1/2" hosing ($2.50) 2 buckets we weren't using 2 smaller pieces of live rock from our already established tank We heated up a tool with the gas stove to melt out the circle from the container for the bulk head to go through. Put the container on top of the two buckets (to support the weight) under the tank right next to the sump. Ensured that the bulk head was over the sump so that the refugium would drain back into the sump. We then used the Rio to pump water up from the sump into the Refugium. We didn't let the water start overflowing into the sump right away so that the soot from the miracle mud would not get into the tank. The next morning, we were ready to start the pump and the refugium is up and running. We lucked out, because the two live rocks we put into the refugium had some copiopods on it as well as those very small white brittle stars. So, we will now allow them to populate the refugium along with the salt water plants we put in. Total cost - probably somewhere under $100. YEAH!
  8. If the maroon has fin rot, I'm not sure if there is any treatment that can cure that. From mine and my husband's research...that is not a curable disease and you don't want your other fish to get it. We had to return a butterfly fish that had this problem....and we found out that it did in fact have it and did not make it. Sorry.... I hope maybe it's just a bad case of ick or some other parasite that you can kill with copper and a QT tank.
  9. I want to say that majano is a type of aptasia. However, the stuff my hubby and I had looked different than what Bill has pictures of......either one is no good though. NOT something you want in your tank! My husband and I used a combo of Joe's Juice and peppermint shrimp. I honestly think that getting rid of our aptasia had to do more with the shrimp and less with the Joe's Juice. I read an article somewhere that you can actually inject these things with lemon juice and that will do the job too (I haven't tried it). You have to get a syringe from the pharmacy (you can buy them....just ask for one at the counter) and use concentrated lemon juice. You have to inject it directly into the object (I think in the lower part...or the "stem" is where you want to inject it).
  10. This looks like majano for sure. If you look at the attached link, at the bottom of the page they have a picture of a mature version as well as one that looks like yours. You need to get rid of this, or you will be sorry! We had aptasia in our tank, got some pepermint shrimp, and they really took care of it. However, we let it go for a while not really knowing what it was and my husband is like your wife...not wanting to kill it if not necessary.... I'm glad we were able to get rid of it. http://www.seahorse-nw.com/Predators.html
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