Recent content by boogsawaste

Thanks for the info.

I was thinking about getting 1 or 2 seahorses for a 20 gallon tank I'm setting up. It will be seahorse only and the ones I'm getting (unsure of the exact species), but is captive bred and eat frozen mysis shrimp. My question is how hard are they to care for in comparison to my other fish only...

Well since I cannot find any info on it I'm just going to do as another member suggested and uses. Basically just a single feed and a single return, but "t" on each of those and run into/out of 2 aqualifters. He said this helped him out so I'm just going to try that.

I was thinking the same thing but that caused me to wonder why the person who said they hooked them up in series did so his way. If I could only remember where I saw it I would contact him. The other reason in series would work better for me is because I already have the 1 airline hose behind...

This question isn't for a fish tank but for my dart frog vivarium. However you guys know more about these pumps then my guys in the other hobby. My question is that I wanted to increase my output of my aqualifter pump and I've heard someone mention one time that they ran 2 in series. Does this...

Thanks for the in depth instructions. :mrgreen:

So you aren't adding any of your water to the bag when it's floating?

I guess it could be that the crab was already hurting before I got him and the stress of the move might have pushed him over the edge. For future reference, how should I acclimate inverts? Like what's your "step by step" process? Is there anything else for me to check?

So what else should I be looking out for? I didn't get a chance to test the KH yet or CO2 either. Also the crab died yesterday, which is no surprise since he didn't have many legs left. I just want to get it figured out before I put another one in (or anything for that matter). BTW, the water...

So acclimating him wrong would let him survive for 2 days before death? What process are you guys using to acclimate inverts? In all my time keeping saltwater I have never really had any inverts except some hermits and that cc starfish (and of course the hitchhikers).

That's the lowest range on the scale of my tetratest laborett. There is no "0" scale on there. And how I acclimated him. I floated him for about 10 minutes (maybe 15). Next I dumped some of his water and added some of mine (while he was still floating) for another 10. Then I placed him in the...

Oh, I just noticed that my temp is 80! Could this have caused it? I have no idea how it is so hot as room temp is 75 and I have the lights off most of the day.

S/G is 1.024, ph is 8.2, nitrites are <.03 mg/l, ammonia is zero. I can also test carbonate hardness and CO2 later tonight. The ONLY things in the tank are an o. clown and the crab. There are however all kinds of hitchhikers on my live rock. These weird looking snails that are a little bigger...

Well I had to remove my cc starfish from my tank because he got too large. I also returned my mandarin (didn't want to starve him because not enough pods yet), so I tried an arrow crab. I had him since sunday and he looked ok up through last night. This morning when I turned on the lights he is...

Nice! I have some phytoplex (sp) that I can drip in for them.