Recent content by pokeyprelude

well theres definetly nothing wrong with your parameters, it was probably just not happy where it was try not to keep moving it around as that will just stress it out more. not only that it will take a long time to settle down and be fully acclimatised to your tank conditions the only thing you...

montipora is probably the hardeiest sps i have ever dealt with and can cope with a lot more than any other sps i have had. birdsnest have been known to be very tempremental and need very mature stable conditions for it to thrive. but also as stated has been known that some people just cant seem...

i wouldnt have said its because of odd numbers i have never heard of that before. chromis are mass shoaling fish that need to create a dominance level. if you are only adding small numbers they will pick the weakest one out and bully it usually leading to death. so the larger the number added...

i used to run 4 tunze powerheads on two controllers and had them running oposites so that it created very random flow

some very good pics there. nice

when doing it at home you have to press a few cloves of garlic and then microwave it for 60 seconds this way it makes the scent of the garlic really strong, then net out all of the little pieces of garlic so that you just have the liquid, after this you soak your food wether it be flake, brine...

a wavemaker doesnt have to completely turn off the p/h kooralia have made a system that takes the power down to 30%. this is what has solved the issues of the clanking sound as the pump never stops spinning

hi and welcome to the forum, i love keeping my reef aquarium i have 3 different gobies in my tank and i think they have the best characteristics out of all my fish. as you say before even buying your tank research research research make sure you look at what you want and the conditions they need...

i would agree on the feeding little and often option, i had a group of 12 chromis at one point. there was allways a dominant one but that changed on regular occasions mine would eat anything that entered the tank foodwise lol. have you tried the garlic option to try and get them eating more??

i wouldnt personnaly recommend it as most wrasses bury themselves when the lights in the display tank go out to avoid predatation, if the lights are out then theres a chance it will not come out and will starve. the shop should definetly hold the fish if you give them a deposit or pay outright...

thanks for the warm welcome

This was 2 hours after acclimatisation so none of them were fully extended, will take some more recent photos later

hi all my name is jon im 23 from the isle of wight my tank has been running just over a year now and im having a complete stock change so its a little bit empty at present. i have loads of pics i will upload shortly. anways hellooo