Recent content by madhattertcm

Earlier this week I did a water change on my small 15g column tank. Since it's in the office and there's not a lot of places to keep freshwater and mix saltwater, I just buy Saltwater from the LFS. In doing so, they accidentally gave me fresh water, and without checking (because I know they...

Some new additions: Picked up some Goniapora and Zoas from a LFS Also picked up from Xenia from a local guy giving it away! I think I' going to end up putting this on the back glass and letting it grow wild. Coraline is starting to dust the rocks. I'm adding one more stunner strip next...

I bought some acro yesterday - does anyone know what it is specifically? Additionally, on the same rock came a little fuzzy piece. Can anyone identify that as well?

My ex and I (whom I was living with) broke up, so my 50 gallon tank stayed there :( So at my office, I had a 15 gallon column for a freshwater setup. I gave away the fish and plants and started up a new saltwater tank in early December. It finished its cycle last week. So now I have corals and...

Thanks - that's cool to know. This thing is so pretty - I won't mind having more ;)

My girlfriend noticed something in our tank last night. Maybe someone can explain this. We got a ricordea thanksgiving week, and there's a little separated piece that just showed up randomly. My question is just a general "how did this happen". Do ricordeas break off/separate and start...

I can't find much info on people using the Coral+'s - how are they? Are they too blue or do they add a white without washing it out? Do you have a pic of the lighting?

Sounds like I will order 2 blue plus, 1 purple, and then one of coral/aqua blue and see which one I dig for the 4th bulb.

yup - I want a little less white - but would hate stunting coral growth.

I bought an Odyssea T5HO light fixture a while back. Honestly it's doing great and growth has been pretty okay. However I'd like to upgrade the bulbs but I'm just not sure what to do. Right now I have 2 10k and 2 antics. I'm looking at ATI bulbs and thought about this: Blue+ Blue+...

Maybe - He's kind of acting the same on the top. I read that they require moderate to high on both lighting and flow. I think I've tried everywhere. :( Unfortunately it's also not easy to tell. Unlike most corals that will come back out shortly if moved, this guy will stay closed until the next...

Yeah - stupidly we learned that after the fact. :( I think he's too small to do any damage right now as he's only about 2". But we'll keep an eye on him. First sign of trouble and we'll give him a good home. A local guy is keeping a large FOWLR tank, so he may have a nice home there. Black...

I just moved him up to the tip top as well to see how he does up there. Hope that helps.

I've had Blue Clove Polyps since I got my lights. It was one of my first corals. It was doing fine, but in the past couple weeks it's been a little shy looking in the sense that it only opens up about half way. It sits about halfway in the tank under 4x T5s. There's pretty moderate flow in that...

I had a yellow tang for a month that suddenly died. I thought maybe I cooked it since the temp was a little high (84). There were no signs of stress though, and was eating fine. After he died we replaced it with another. We've had him since July and again was perfectly happy. Ate fine and had...