Recent content by henryd

We moved the tank yesterday. Almost all of the Xenia has shrunk to about a quarter the size it was, and is hanging down moving with just the water flow.

Hello all, I am selling my tank and moving it this weekend. I was told by my LFS that I would have trouble moving my Xenia unless it kept it from being exposed to air. I do not plan on pulling the live rock out of the tank and leaving it on the floor. I am going to fill a trashcan 1/2...

Hello, I am having to sell my tank and move it...to move it, it needs to go down a flight of steps which has a landing half way down and turn 90 degrees. One idea is to use an appliance handtruck - one that has a strap to go around the tank. How safe is this? The tank is a 180g Oceanic...

hibye...thank you...a great article...looks like I have alot of work to do for a while.

I have a very fat lawnmower blenny. a long spine urchin, 25 margaritte snails, 50 astreas, 6 turbos, 25 hermits

The RO/DI cartridges were changed over the summer. The TDS in is 123, out is 0 still.

The tank has been up for a year. The water is ph 8.1, temp 81, Am =0, Ni=0, Na = 0, Phos = 0, Ca=390, Alk 4.1meq, Mg=900, Lights are MH 250w (3) 6hrs a day, PC Atinics 39w (4) 8 hrs a day, bultbs were replaced July 6th. I feed every other day, once, alternate 1 cube mystis shrimp or plankton...

Ok...I am getting tired of using the magnet on the sides EVERY DAY and stirring up the sand. When I get home from work, the tank has a thin brown coating on glass and the white sand is covered with what I thought was diatoms but maybe it is brown algea? Suggestions?

Well...thanks all......Now i just keep checking the tank for a dying slug of gooo!!

Bifferwine, You have me worried. I added a sea cucumber to my tank yesterday...he went into the rocks and I have not seen him since!!!

Hello, I have three small (1/2") creatures (sorry, tried to take pics but they were useless), that when open has a red center, has lots of tenicles, ending with a white dot. They close up to a red blob. Not sure what they are or even how to search for them.

Ok...sounds like the consensus is to clean the whole tank and then let the coraline come back on the back wall. Thanks.

What do most people do with their back wall and sides of their tank? I have been working to get coraline algea to cover the sides and back. It was looking good until I had hair algea cover everything in the tank. As I have been fighting that, and I am making progress, the back wall is sorta...

I do have fish in the tank - 2 clowns, 1 royal gamma, 1 potter angel, 1 algea blenny but they have been in there the whole time. I used to be able to see the pods some during the day and always at night with a flashlight. Now, I cannot find any with the flashlight at night.

I seem to have lost all of my pods and bristle worms...a few months ago, the tank was crawling with them and I often spent hours after the lights were out watching all kinds of pods and worms come out of the sand and rock. Now nothing! I am not sure what I could have done to kill it all...