Recent content by taliesin

Just got to reading what I posted.... and idn't like what I typed. Apologies go out to Fish Gallery... when they found them.. they were very proactive in taking them out of the tank....

Ok... I finally broke down and just purchased a RO/DI unit.(Wife got it for me for my B-day at the end of the month) It should be delivered soon. So I know I need a TDS meter to make sure my unit is working properly. I've seen on various sites some that are in-line and some that are hand...

Ok Today I got the nerve up to frag part of my colt coral, and gave a frag to a friend in Carrolton. So far so good. I also put two up for the co-op area. Figured other's in the group have given me different frags, so I thought this was a good place to repay that generousity. I plan on...

I have a rather large colt coral (base is around 4 inches around) with a lot of branches. I have been thinking lately of "trimming" it back, but do not know exactly how to do so. Don't want to kill the thing.

I have a question... yesterday I tested my parm and came up with the following: Alk: 3.0 Ca: 440 Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 Am:0 Phos: 0 Salinity 1.024 Well, last night was the first night we used a bottle of Phyto that we raised. So today, when I got home from work, I decided to check the parm to...

Ok.. I have had the tank for about 1.5 years... it's been mostly softies.. leathers and polyps. I had 3x150w 15k XM's with 120w accentics. Now I am running 3x250w 12k reeflux bulbs with 2x160w vho accentics. I slowly acclimated the rest of the tank to the new lights over a period of weeks...

I've had my GBTA for about 1 1/2 months now and it's loved this one area of the tank... came home last night to see it stretched real thin in the middle... and noticed 2 seperate feet on it... Woke this morning and I now have 2 GBTA's... they are so cute.. not use to it being so small... the...

It looks like my puffer is sick. There is a thick mucus that is coming off of him. I got him into my QT tank now..and from what I have read the best medication is copper for Marine Velvet.. which is what it looks like... I have treated with that and have it sitting between 1.5 and 2.0 on the...

I have a friend that has a 30g reef.. and wants to upgrade to a 75g... Now I told him he should think about a refugium.. but he's insisting on sticking with his wet/dry that is rated for a 75... he wants to know if he could take the sand and rock out of his current tank and place it in the 75...

Well.. after several weeks of trying (unsucessfully) to get him to eat frozen food... his eyes clouded up and a few weeks later it died. :(

Ok... I finally got the 200g fowlr going good, now to turn the attn to the 100g tank (was previous fowlr) now to be turned into a reef tank... Have some live sand in it, soon to get some live rock (this weekend)... but the real question is... What Temp should I keep the tank.... I have seen a...

Hi there... It was nice meeting everyone at the meeting... but have one question on the Kenya Tree that I won in the raffle. I have not kept corals before... and right now it's in the Fuge while I transfer the fish over to the bigger tanks and make the 100g the coral tank :) But now comes the...