Recent content by cherylr_1

little-fish that is what the lfs previous owners did to us, they knew we were beginners and they sold us stuff that we shouldn't even have had, like anemones, and quick cycling now such thing we know now, LOL and then with our 65 gal tank was sold to us as all inclusive with filter systen and...

Thank you little_fish, and yes will definately be taking the seahorse class and studying all the sites you and others have posted, my experience with saltwater tanks from the beginning was kind of hairy due to false info gotten from previous owners of the saltwater store that we go to, and when...

I want to thank everyone for the info and will definately be checking into them. I personally have had an interest in them since I was little and my older sisters tried the ones that you ordered thru comic books and such and of course they failed. I don't know why the interest, but it is...

:DHi My guy and I are just beginners in the world of salt water fishes and reefs. We changed over our 10 gal tank now to a reef tank with 3 different coral and a pepperment shrimp a hermit crab and a couple of snails in it and are enjoying learning about corals and fish. We are in the process of...

I had them and put in some peppermint shrimp in the tank and walla they disappeared almost overnight. no work on my part.

:wave:Hi to all. I bought a 10 gal aquarium and set up for my boyfriend for Christmas a yr ago, that started the ball rolling on saltwater tanks we have fallen in love with it and are now doing a 65 gal tank and turning the 10 gal into a reef only tank. The 65 gal was a used tank that sat for...

Thank you Bifferwine. We are gradually putting things in the 65 gal. tank, have been afraid the green hairy algae would take over the new rock, we have the hairy algae on the run I think as we turned off the lights and only put them on long enough to feed the two flame tails we have in there...

Ok, now this is really going to show how new I and my guy are to reefing and saltwater all together so hope you don't mind the "stupid" questions what is sps and what am I looking for in the pictures above, am trying to learn about all that I can. We have a "new" used 65 gal and are still...

Does anyone have pics of the red turf algae that I can see. I think I have it in my 10 gal tank and if I do it came on my live rock as it had patches of red all over it when I bought it. I use my little scrubby thing on it but it only really works on the smaller patches of it.

:sfish:Thank you all for the welcome. Well am sure we are going to have alot of questions for you and hope to show our 10 gal tank and our 65 gal in tank in progress.

Hi everyone, We are a couple and we have an established 10 gal tank that is doing pretty well and we are starting a used 65 gal tank. We started the 10 gal tank with the owners of the shop where we got our fish and water and they new a few things on setting them up but basically think they were...