Recent content by nanoMama86

Build your own stand, buy a brand new tank. my best advice. I have bought used tanks, and new, and prefer new if I can afford it, or it is not an emergency situation. :good: Oooo goody! Another fishkeeper! :D

When I said I had to wield the hammer, I meant I euthanized him. I'm talking about a 4 pound hammer here, swung to the head with no hesitation, so instant death. A plec can kill thru stress. He will stress your dat into a secondary infection, if not directly by opening his slime coat. Where I...

That plec will KILL your dat :crazy: . It is a sign he is starving. You are either gonna have to remove him, or start upping the amount of algae wafers you are throwing in the the tank. It is a really dire situation becuase when plecs start exhibiting this behaviour, in my experience, they don't...

Tell me you DO NOT have an oscar in a 35 gallon? Please, if you are, start changing 75% of her water every three days? Nitrates over 20ppm will KILL an oscar. Good Luck, Chappo!

Okay. so what about someone like me who has 2ppm of ammonia out of the tap? I am in Texas and we are in the middle of a major drought and so I thought it was wise to test my water again and discovered this horrible fact. I use Prime. My 100 gallon has been having issues with itchy fish and...

Sorry to but in here.L, but the white sort of fuzzy stuff in your pic is EXACTLY the white stuff on my rocks! So is is good and NOT bad? And I have hair algae, but it is in little "gardens" that my shrimp tend. They will ruthlessly pull any excess off the rock.My Hermies also seem to pet the...

So everybody was like super happy for like 30 minutes and was then like , "it burns, the sun, it burns!" and everything pulled in. So I scrimped enough money together together to buy distilled water from wal-mart and begged salt from LFS, and did a 10 gallon water change, plus a re-model on the...

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I live in texas and I battle HTS( Hot Tank Syndrome) every summer, when my a/c struggles to pull my house below 80. The only thing that works for me is to suspend my lights and use a water surface fan. Also, I make tank water ice cubes in case my tanks start to reach critical temperature spikes...

I GOT MY NEW LIGHT! :yahoo: :- :band: :hyper: I just one bulb on atm, but man oh man, what a HUGE difference! My hammies immediatley reacted to the stroger light by opening up double what they were and intensifying there colors! I am going to try the pic loading dohicky thing a mabob, but be...

Thanks and double thanks! I use Instant ocean. How does having a lot of coral affect my amount of water that needs to be changed? And certainly, NO FRYING :sick: , lol! And L, it's a Zoo Med T5 HO dual lamp 36 inch 39 watt 34 inch bulb fixture, which I know is too large for my current tank...

Ammo-0, Nitrite-0, Nitrate-High at 25, Calcium- High at 600, Ph- 7.9. I drooped my water level as I had a really nasty thick scum on the surface of my water this morning, and things seemed to perk up. I am just waiting for my hubs to get paid on FRI so I can buy the salt and water to do the...

These guys are my original ones. I just finally got the hubs to post pics for me. I got him to download Basic Coral Care for me and it was an intense read! I am wanting another 40 gallon tank, but am not sure which one is 36 inches long, but not the breeder? 40 gallons is as big as I can afford...

Thanks for replying! I know you work, and I was not directing anything at YOU certainly! I respect you certainly very highly! I was GIVEN all of these organisms, and am struggling to cope with the steep learning curve. I am wanting to add a really big leather coral and a large mushroom of...