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  1. gotfish

    Candy cane pistol shrimp eating

    I was feeding the tank earlier and noticed a goby with a good chunk of food sitting outside it's hole. After a little bit, the pistol shrimp came out and started eating food from it mouth. This is a sequence of the pistol coming out to snatch some food. It was pretty cool to see. Have never...
  2. gotfish

    I got some new toys

    I have the swc160. Great little skimmer especially if you have a limited footprint size.
  3. gotfish

    refugium plants help???

    As far as how you start using them. Put them in your area you plan on keeping them. Some people toss some sand in or use a deep sand bed. It's personal preference for the most part. I leave my light on 24/7 over my fuge. Some people run their light opposite of the light over your tank as...
  4. gotfish

    refugium plants help???

    They have and they do. Personally I don't cause chaeto works great. It's fast growing, easy to prune and is readily available. From what I've heard, mangroves are too slow growing to really work that well.
  5. gotfish

    refugium plants help???

    Chaeto will be sufficient.
  6. gotfish

    android vs. iPhone

    I don't have a droid, but I've never had a single problem with my iphone. I was talking with someone I know who has the droid and he said as far as internet goes, it's great, but for making calls, he hates it. You can't browse like you can with the iphone while talking which doesn't seem like...
  7. gotfish

    My 270g Progression Journal

    Hey Sarang, been a long time. Tank is looking good. Gonna have to make a trip over and see it in person again.
  8. gotfish

    Gotfish's 125g

    Well, it's been a while since I've even been on here and even longer since I posted anything. Tank is still doing well. Some pics to show the growth.
  9. gotfish

    Cycling new tank: proper NH3 level?

    You're right Don, 0 nitrates for a reef tank is ideal. I would assume by you telling him he isn't fully cycled until his trates are at 0 also means you're telling him he should put in coral at that time. Otherwise, the thousands of people on this board cycled their tanks wrong. I can...
  10. gotfish

    Cycling new tank: proper NH3 level?

    If you take a look online, you'll see 5ppm is advised by just about everyone who subscribes to this method. The guy who started this whole process is an organic chemist. Why he decided to target 5ppm is probably from trial and error, but that's what he says and I know of a lot of people now...
  11. gotfish

    Cycling new tank: proper NH3 level?

    If you're going to do the ammonia method, you want to get your ammonia up to around 5ppm by adding a little bit of ammonia daily. Test daily to make sure it stays there. When it gets to the point where the ammonia no longer shows up on your test within 8-12 hours of dosing you should have a...
  12. gotfish

    fowlr setup

    If your ammonia/trites are 0, adding a clean up crew will not move those anywhere. Crabs/snails do not add a significant amount of waste to your system. If this were a 1 gallon, it might be a different story, then again I doubt it.
  13. gotfish

    Sand Sifting Goby

    I have one of the barred goby as well. Also known as a dragon goby. He's a good sifter, constantly working over the sand, but the only issue I have with it is he doesn't dig very deep. He just takes in the surface sand basically. The orange diamond and gold head both dig a little deeper as...
  14. gotfish

    Extreme line skimmer update

    What about on an swc 200, is it fine to run the pump with the intake facing to 9 o'clock? If I try to cut the hose I probably couldn't get more then an inch out of it without it starting to kink. That's with the pump intake facing toward 6 o'clock.
  15. gotfish

    Extreme line skimmer update

    Luke, in order to cut the tubing, did you turn the pump to have the intake facing 9 o'clock? Meaning the tube is pointing straight up. If not, doesn't it put a sharp bend in the tube cutting off air?
  16. gotfish

    Very Stuck with Acro Problems

    What were your nitrates normally at when in your 55g tank? They are a bit high for sps. I'm thinking that when you switched over, you may have had a small cycle. The loss of having the bacteria on the glass makes a huge difference and would allow a buildup of ammonia and then nitrites until...
  17. gotfish

    sump baffles

    It does have baffles in it. That's what those things holding the eggcrate are. Will this hold a skimmer? Any macro's going in it? If you plan on pulling out the baffles in it right now, which is pretty much what you'll have to do if you plan on putting a skimmer in it unless it's pretty...
  18. gotfish

    Share your tank with us...

    Nice job Sarang, how long did it take you to write the novel to go along with it? :)
  19. gotfish

    MONTI cap Sloughing mucus.

    Mine did the same thing. I don't know what you mean exactly by quite a bit of mucus, but it did have mucus coming off from it. I think it was mostly from me gluing it to the rock and having it out of the water while doing it. So yes, when stressed, they release a mucus.
  20. gotfish

    Thermomiters

    You could leave your thermometers out on the table if you have a thermostat that shows you the temp in your house. Whichever reads closest to that is the one I'd go with. Generally, the glass thermometers seem to be the closest for whatever reason.
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