Recent content by Gigaah

Hey biff. If your ever looking for copepod cultures hit me up. I have a culture going of Apocyclops panamenisis. a VERY tiny copepod that swims in the water column. smaller even than rotifers. I also have a culture of Oxyrrhis marina a dinoflagellate that will eat algae paste and can in turn be...

My maroon clown will attack anything light blue. ANYTHING. including light blue rubber gloves. He's see's it comming before it even enters the tank and darts out ready to attack. I don't know what it is but I have a sponge scrubber and an algae scraper both light blue and he REALLY goes after...

The one I had spent more time pretending the surface of the water was DOWN and pointed staight up or down in the corner.. I swear I only saw him swim upright when There was food to chase down.

I'm not sure about air. I use them it in mine. It might not be required tho but its probably a good idea.

The biggest issue is the "wild harvested zooplankton". They have to be small enough. Rotifers will not work for a first food for the mandarin larvae. The eggs are also very fragile. If you want to breed mandarins or any fish you NEED to talk to the people that hang out here: Marine Ornamental...

If you plan on culturing pods for your mandarin at some point just make sure you gets ones they will eat. There are a bewildering array of copepods species of all different sizes. Some are easier to raise than others as well. I've just started cultuing Apocylops panamensis(these are free...

My local petco and petland order most of their fish from a company call APET. They are based a couple hours away and everything is trucked in via climate controlled vechicals. I don't know much about the companies practices other than that. I was browsing thier website the other day.

Its the first time I've ever seen such a thing on any label.

...you know because we're sensative to those kinda things...

Assuming you have no other options for daily feeding. The only thing I could even fathom attempting to rely is some sort of pod culture That is slowly pumped into the tank from a bottle. Have a culture of X pods. Have someone come over once a week split the culture.. refill the culture bottle...

You have a point. I wasn't thinking about the inverters conversion.

It still looks fantastic unedited.

If that is a picture of the clam that hasn't been severely edited its crazy. TBH I'd have a hard time believing it actually looks like that..something looks off. I'd have to see a seperate picture to be convinced.

A cheap 300w inverter and a car battery(roughly 100amp hours). I'm not so sharply focused but I think if you invert 12v dc to 120v ac that would put you at 10amp hours at 120v converted. So you could run 1 amp for 10 hours.(not counting inverter loss..the battery is a rough estimate and probably...

If it holds water its a good brand of tank imo. lol. I'm usually more concerned about the dimensions. For most of the fish that I have longer, not taller is better. I also like the look of longer tanks better. I got a 33g thats 13x13x48 and I LOVE it I'll never part with it. Some fish its...