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thats very comforting to know! I went and bought 10 ghost shrimp and they ate all 10 as I dropped them in one by one but as for the brine they ignored it like the mysis. but now im seeing this red spot on one of my horses face surrounded by a few white-yellowish bumps kinda looks like a pimple. ill start a new thread

Yea ive been skimming really heavy real wet along with netting out anything that isnt eaten. I got them from RCA and was told today they arent eating frozen but live ghost shrimp. They dont touch adult brine shrimp at all either so not sure what else to try. Thanks for the tips

anyone grow mysid shrimp? Looking to feed some ponies.

I'll probably get roasted by other horse keepers but the eel grows to be only about a foot long. I've kept these eels with gobies and other small fish with no problems at all as they were quite content with ghost shrimp frozen mysis and table shrimp.

another one

One of the new horses! Thanks to the guys at RCA!

hermits will flip snails and eat them live or even if the snail falls over and cant get back up. Try rubber banding some nori to a small rock it should last a little longer.

theres no such thing as too big...

Ive raised my salinity from 1.023 up to 1.026 within a few minutes with no ill effects on my fish. Yours is a much bigger gap so im not sure how it will effect your inhabitants. Take it slow to be on the safe side unless someone else with more exp says otherwise.

A little about my tank. Its a 100 gallon with about 200lbs of rock. Its lit by 2x150w hqi and 2x130w pc. I have a 55 gallon sump running a euro reef cs8-1 skimmer and a 1/3hp chiller temp is kept between 78-80. using a mag 12 as my return and also run a tunze wavebox. Just added 3 tiny chromises along with my 3 tiny firefish. Im also waiting for my golden dwarf moray eel to come in. Sounds like im taking things a little fast but 1/4 of the rock my sand and 2/3 of the water are from my reef before I redid the tank.

+1 for the stars I had 3 brittle stars and 1 harlequin serpent star and they took care of any left overs the fish didnt eat

thank you. I wish I had a camera of the rebuild it was quite fun

thanks! Its a mix of foam and rock. I have one little firefish in there right now and just bought a golden dwarf moray eel which should be here thursday! Then im probably gonna lay low for a little bit and let my system catch up to handle the bio load.

ok so I didnt have a camera during the rebuild but here it is after the cycle has finished

I usually suppliment with nori. They come graze on that then go back to grazing on rocks.

if the hermits are starving maybe the snails are too?

I usually buy mine from the mt supermarket on lamar for 1.99. Most hebs sell them in their asian sections.

interesting read on the worms. I found a worm very simular to the eunice in my rocks while I was drying them in the sun for my rebuild. It was about 8-10" long and was quite scary if you ask me.

oh and make sure you dont try and unplug stuff when outlet or yourself is wet...you'll be in for quite a shock if you do. I sure do love gfcis

Ogo is good served with poke or tako I'll have to try chaeto any good recipes?

I had to miss it...my tank isnt ready for anything yet.

ill take some! If Polarbear doesnt that is since this is his thread

THe idea of a seam failure is really scary. There is nothing you can do to prevent that or mitigate it (short of going acrylic).

For you guys who had tanks crack, how old were they? Did you have any warning signs?

we had the tank for years. The center brace fell off but we didnt think anything of it and one day during the middle of the night we heard a crash and rushing water and 150 gallons of water, glass, gravel, rocks, and fish all over the floor. A couple of the fish made it but whhatever landed on sharp glass was gone.

mag 9.5 is spoken for

calcium reactor still available.

Hey,

Didn't you bother to read the post in front of you. I answered it with, I have aquacultured Ocellarius Clowns that are less than 1 year old for $15 each. Because I subscribe to natural reef keeping and believe in establishing the micro-inverts as a viable part of the food web and nutriant cycling, it is my opinion that stocking reef fish at the early stage of your set-up circumvents the developement of the food web. Everybody wants it right away and patience is not a virtue in our consumer economy. I have had the fish for two weeks in my growout tanks and 10 are available at this time.

Pat

No I didnt... but will let you know when Im ready for fish. Im just looking for any healthy captive raised fish people may have and want to sell before going to the lfs.