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  1. vlangel

    Catching a rogue damsel?

    GOT HIM!!! I think I'll go for his buddy also.
  2. vlangel

    Catching a rogue damsel?

    My guys haven't been fed today but I have food in the trap. All the fish are hanging around the trap and one of the damsels, not the one I want yo catch keeps going to the mouth of it but just won't go in. Oops, while I was writing this it ventured in. We may get them yet!
  3. vlangel

    Catching a rogue damsel?

    My rock work is a nice solid composition that I really hate to disturb. If I can't lure the culprit into my baited trap, and I can't snag him with fishing line and hook, I'm gonna drain the tank into my 40 gallon garbage can (that I only use for the aquarium or my outside pond) to 4-5", grab...
  4. vlangel

    Catching a rogue damsel?

    Thanks for the tip about holding the bottle to the glass with a magnet. My serpent stars shouldn't be able to get in it if I try that. I will give that a go before I get my fishing gear out!
  5. vlangel

    Catching a rogue damsel?

    Thanks everyone, I think I may have to resort to the small hook as my trap only caught one of my serpent starfish. My tank is very "cavey" so lots of places for the damsel to go, even when the lights are off. I have to think of the pain and suffering to my $7 damsel or $70 clam! He'll get...
  6. vlangel

    Catching a rogue damsel?

    I have a kupang damsel that I suspect is nipping the mantle of my clam. I've never seen him do it but he's always up where the clam is and the mantle has suspicious jaggy places. I'm trying the soda bottle with the top cut off and inverted to make a trap (in the vein of lobster traps). Of...
  7. vlangel

    My tank crashed today, Help

    So sorry for what you are going through. I would leave even the bleach out corals in the tank awhile and see if perhaps they come back. Sometimes there is living tissue that we can't see and they do come back. I have a pink hammer that a Navarchus just decimated but several of the heads that...
  8. vlangel

    Carnivorous serpent star

    Well I'm happy to report that both the serpent star and my feather duster seem fine today. Perhaps my serpent star has turned rogue! I plan to drop more pellets in the tank. I have 3 serpent stars in a 46 gallon system so perhaps they are a bit hungry since I'm careful about feeding this...
  9. vlangel

    No skimmer, no problem?

    I had a 90 gallon tank that I ran skimmer less for about 1 and half years. I had an anemone in there and it never split or seemed stressed. Most of my corals were softies though and they like higher nutrient water and even phosphates. I did faithful weekly WC and used carbon since softies will...
  10. vlangel

    ReefGeekers 90g Reef

    Wow, those are nice looking frags. They should be real attractive additions to your tank when they grow out. I really love frogspawn, hammers, and acans. I think they are really my favoritest coral! I'm happy for you.
  11. vlangel

    pandora32 215g

    Looks like you had a 'few' tube dwellers on it! LOL
  12. vlangel

    Carnivorous serpent star

    The feather duster looked fine early this morning, with his "so called fishing net" out. Do they do that if the worm has died?
  13. vlangel

    Carnivorous serpent star

    OK, so I was doing a water change this morning and I spotted my large red serpent star high tailing it across the front of my tank dragging something behind him. Here it was one of my feather dusters. He was making for his lair where I wouldn't be able to get to him easily so I had to make a...
  14. vlangel

    pandora32 215g

    Wow, your coral looks beautiful. Moving big tanks is not fun and very stressful. I've never had anything larger than a 90 gallon. I set it up in the living room near the front door. That door sticks in the summer due to humidity and the tank must have been ever so slightly shimmying on its...
  15. vlangel

    Hello from United Kingdom.

    Kind of a cabinet and tank all in one package. Will you still have a stand to hide a sump/equipment and such?
  16. vlangel

    Saltwater Newbie in New Mexico

    With a 30 gallon tank if your water change is 5 gallon or less, don't worry about the temperature of it. It would probably only lower the tanks temp a degree and that won't hurt. Iodine is the additive that helps with molting but its a tricky one and you don't want to overdose. Most marine...
  17. vlangel

    Saltwater Newbie in New Mexico

    I agree with TJL that buying the water might be the easiest and most economical for now.
  18. vlangel

    Saltwater Newbie in New Mexico

    You don't have to do a whole house RO. I have a portable RO unit that hooks up to a sink and I can save the water in clean garbage can with a tiny Rio to keep it circulated. The only concern there might be space but you could just make 5 gallons in an old salt bucket. You'd have to watch that...
  19. vlangel

    Saltwater Newbie in New Mexico

    Sometimes we don't know why something happens like your crab. I could speculate but I might steer you wrong so I'd rather not.
  20. vlangel

    Saltwater Newbie in New Mexico

    I am not a good one to ask about that. I live in a municipality where the water is pretty good right from the tap ( and I know that is definitely not the case every where )so I confess that is what I do. You can't go wrong with an RO unit but they are not cheap nor are the replacement...
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