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hold a light up to one side. there are a lot. also if ]you have them all in one container you can split the culture. more space gives space, a factor in popultion size. a certain space can only support su much population. the easiest thing i think to accomplish that is grab a couple of water bottles, the cheap plastic ones with the screw on lid, and put half of it culture water, other half clean new salt water. and replace the culture water in the 1 gal with fresh salt. this not only will act as a water change(as tiny as the bugs are they still produce waste). and now you have 2 cultures. give it a week and both wilil be as dark as before. the pod population overall will increase.

like screen doors on submarines?

the only life is pepermint shrimp. and i havent noticed bad chem levels. ill check again.

best inforation for seahorses are seahorse.org but corals for seahorses really can only be limited to softies. anything that stings will seriously damage a seahorse. seahorses should stick to mushrooms, or kenya trees, etc.

this morning half the colony was out. but now it went back. so its not dad. that is really reasuring. but still im worried about my cucumber. ive seen it come out twice now. but most of the time i just see it squished under the rock. it is still alive, it moves. but the filter thingies i dont ever see out. is it a night time thing? the polyps were only out in the dark and whenn i turned on the lights the polyps closed up.

they are in a 55gal. i think the alhi is close to 4" the cichlids are a hair shorter. im not good atguessing that sort of thing. the pleco is almost 2x that length. the loaches are thinner than the cichlids but just as long. jewels i dont think you have to worry about. oz for oz they are the toughest cichlid there is. least that is what i have seen. mine ate a 6" bala shark when they were little more than an inch. i dont know when i could get back to austin. really ill give them to you free if you can come and pick them up. 2 weeks may be the earliest i can get up there, so if you might be ablt to fish them out yourself they are FREE. i dont want to put them through those conditions any longer. just aint kosher. if possible i would love to set something up. the cichlids are in south austin, near slaughter & i35. and heck if you see any of that limestone in the tank you could have some of that too. if a pick up is not possible it may have to wait. this school job is not going to allow me to get to austin very quickly.

i bought a star polyp. the colony never opened up. the kenya tree and xenia is doing fine. but the star polyp not so. it never opened up. on the rock is a pink jelly covering that i figure is the main body for the coral. i can see many polyp heads. and on the pink jelly body of the coral there are white spots. not sure if its dying back or if it is just taking longer to adjust to the tank conditions. i didnt detect any bad chem levels. am i worrying too much? should i just wait it out? it is in good water flow.

thank you. but i just found an old one in the closet. so this should do for a time. thank you though. i really appriciate it!

i have some cichlids that i need to get rid of. lately i just dont have the time to go back to austin to take care of them. and my parents dont have the experience to know what to do with them. i have 3 jewels, and an ahli. a pleco and 2 silver loaches. please if anyone can take them PLEASE DO! the tank is falling apart.they need a good home. now i think one has a little bit of fin rot. i just dont have the ability to be there daily to medicate, treat etc. i would like to get a few dollars for them but at this point its what will get them to a new home. pm me or email me [email protected]

bringing that to the swap??

pm'ed. ten if still left, just in case the pm doesnt work. (dont trust computers)

well that didnt work as expected. its going but diy is never as smooth as you imagine. so the rubbermaid has no structural intergity but part of the bed and a couple feet of shoestring helped with that. ill add pictures when i can. its a contraption. my self made out of household supplies overflow box is not working as i had hoped. oddly the aquarium safe glue has no bonding power on plastic, despite what the bottle says. well ill let it cure overnight this time see if it helps. if not i have another idea. DIY wonderment.

FIGURED IT OUT!! i have water bottles that i figured out how to plumb for overflows. i bought a 50 gal rubbermaid. so i have a sump, and if i cut it right an overflow box. all put together for 32.87$ by no means is it pretty. but jimpin jellybeans if this works.

on my flip phone the flip part flipped off. i need a new phone. does anyone have an OLD useless phone they would not mind pawning off? i honestly dont care if it pictures, whatever. as long as it makes phone calls.

i have ten gallon tank. i dont like the water volume being so low. walmart has those BIG rubber maid bins that personally i think look like a my dorm room's new sump. only way i understand how to plumb it all together is to add an overflow box to the ten. i cant drill, i dont have the tools, the tank is set up, and if i had the tools not really a yard where i could do it. so i just want to plumb it all together.

DUDE! YES

i need an overflow box. i was told lfs will carry em. but they call em bulkheads? buying one sounds better than trying to glue together soda bottles.

somthing to try. i have heard a lot of people who have success with thier mandarin eating roe. sushi grade fish eggs. can be specially purchased. you may want to try it. not every mandarin takes it but it certainly is worth a shot if you uthink its starving to death.

he is doing great! idk what but now the feathers are out. he is happy as a bug. im doing a water change. and im shopping for adding a sump. either way somehow i am adding volume to the tank.

better than my idea. im not allowed according to dorm rules to have more "tanks" so my sump is being comprised of a bunch of 5gal buckets plumbed together... looks ridiculous but it works. have fun makeing it. DIY feels so good when its done knowing you put in all this work for some fish. untill your friends cant fathom why you would spend so much energy for such a creature

http://www.melevsreef.com/index.html very clear lots of options.

yes that is possible. i have been trying to work on that myself for the past 2 days. simple google search will give you a ton of DIY sump ideas. plumbing it is possible. if you have the tools. i dont personally have acess to drills, heaters or anything required to make one properly and i dont have the cash to buy one. but more than likely you will have access to what you need. good luck!

thats what i thought 2. i think it is a mini cycle. the tank is 2 months old now. but it in the last 3 weeks i've doubled the lr, added quite a bit of plants, and almost 8x upped the lighting. so i think with the lights and plants a lot more stuff is quickly being put out. water change...

so far, i have a high ph, about 8.8 according ot the test. im thinking the school has abnormally high water ph, (the school filters the water for itself and the city. but im trying to get a hold of the chem lab and see if they will let me have some gal of DI) ammonia, .25 nitrite 0 nitrate no idea, i dont have the color sheet. and my other kit is useless. chemicals are bad or something. no reaction ever takes place. tommorow im going to attempt a water change. and im ordering parts that will alow me to add another part to my filtration system that i will add a lb or two of carbon.

i bought a cucumber yesterday. its was great yesterday. he dove into the sand and stuck out his feathery thingies and was filter feeding, licking his finger thingies. the lights went off and he contracted. figured he didnt like the dark. this morning he was balled up on the sand. i figured it would open up later. now its what 7pm and it has been balled up none stop. no protruding feeders. its not dead. ive moved it and it has moved on its own and stuck to rocks. so its alive, or at least the tube feet work. im testing the water now but i thought i would get this up while i can.