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  1. Electrokate

    another upgrade from a 55 to 100

    Susie told me she put the sun polyps in an easy to access place on the substrate and for feeding put a 2 liter pop bottle with the bottom cut off over it, then squirted some frozen food juice in to get the polyps open, then squirted in some live baby brine shrimp or similar small foods that...
  2. Electrokate

    Will peppermint shrimp eat zoo's?

    I think maybe one or two of my peppermints got eaten by fish as well, but then they will eat eachother. When they moult I guess they are too tempting. MMM peppermint sushi! I know I like raw shrimp... Like it with the rice and a bit of sweet chilli sauce though. And the head deep fried. That's...
  3. Electrokate

    another upgrade from a 55 to 100

    Looks great, that's the stand I SHOULD have gotten, didn't realize how short mine is. Am trying to sell it on Craig's list for 30 bucks. Really wish I could keep it as it would be an awesome cabinet for my record collection, just perfect. Yes, I still have those black plastic thingy's people...
  4. Electrokate

    Will peppermint shrimp eat zoo's?

    Update on my 2 peppermints: one got eaten by a mushroom, other died but first they decimated the yellow polyps. Bought some more peps to breed, they are in a 20 in the fishroom. Hard to get the babies, will have to move them to a 10 with sponge filter. Now training all my shrimp to eat sinking...
  5. Electrokate

    another upgrade from a 55 to 100

    Yeah, I think we are all addicts... I admit I have a problem with aquariums though and am turning it over to a higher power-my credit limit! Ha ha ha. I am glad you like it Tony, keep me posted on how the plumbing goes, maybe I will do my 50 the same way. I got 3 people willing to help me...
  6. Electrokate

    free mean small FW fish in Oly-killies

    Hi, I guess I did drop the ball on this... you still want these fish? They are still here. If you don't want them let me know and I will take them to Aquarium Warehouse or Pioneer if Misti wants them. Kate
  7. Electrokate

    reef vital dna?

    I love all these miracle products. Especially when their salesmen show up at a meeting or store, how fun to play with them! I know a really good way to make all the molecules in water line up but it involves the freezer (: What really really freaks me out is when they sell potassium...
  8. Electrokate

    Can hair algae be toxic?

    I have done 3 water changes in the last 2 weeks. 1/3 of the tank in all cases with gravel vac applied. That's pretty much my solution to everything (: Set up a 50 and will move the best of the rock and the fish over into that, then drain the tank and thoroughly clean out the substrate. Might...
  9. Electrokate

    Can hair algae be toxic?

    Well...I have also killed tons of FW fish. Some of which are sort of like, well, extinct or at least endangered. I do my best to breed what I can for these projects and sometimes things go wrong, usually involving stocking to densely and getting ill so I don't clean as often as I should. Most of...
  10. Electrokate

    Electrokates 93.5 gallon budget tank

    Over the last couple weeks things haven't gone well. First off after my last water change I forgot to plug the powerheads back in so detritus got nice and thick. Then a hair algae and diatoms bloomed, feeding on the detritus. It killed half the brain coral and all the Montipora digitata, and a...
  11. Electrokate

    Can hair algae be toxic?

    Yeah, I have been stubborn and tried to make this tank work for a year. Nothing with it goes right and I do mean nothing. You'd be amazed. If the hair algae is not the poison I wish I knew what it is, everything is dying. When I blow off the rocks things get worse. Must be some kind of waste...
  12. Electrokate

    Can hair algae be toxic?

    It's actually that aragonite stuff sold as "aragalive". Not as big as crushed coral but you are right, it traps stuff like crazy. It's crap and I sold tons of it working at the fish store, so I guess this is my karma. SO much stuff I sold at the fish store is garbage... This present problem...
  13. Electrokate

    Can hair algae be toxic?

    Hi, I seem to be hijacking another thread so starting this one instead. I have a tank with bad hair algae. It's not bryopsis. It started in the skeleton of a brain coral I was trying to grow, which was improving til the algae attacked. After a year of growth it had almost fully recovered and in...
  14. Electrokate

    how to get rid of alage

    I agree, the tanks with no skimmer are doing great but the tank with skimmer is terrible. (took the other skimmers down as they would periodically overflow and dump water all over the floor) It has also had chaeto for a year and the snails will not eat this hair stuff, if I put them on it they...
  15. Electrokate

    how to get rid of alage

    That's my problem too. I try and pull it off the brain coral skeleton as it encroaches on the live stuff but it just slips out of my fingers. Tempted to get a couple finger cots or cut the tips off latex gloves and see if that gives my fingers more traction. Last ditch option: move the whole...
  16. Electrokate

    do any lfs's buy fw fish for anything?

    You should call around. Some stores have room for them, others do not. Large fish can be especially difficult to sell since the majority of customers in FW stores seem to think 20 gallons is a "huge" tank (: The clown loach you should look for a FW home directly, the mortality rate for loaches...
  17. Electrokate

    The cheato ONLY method of reefkeeping

    I make DIY CO2 yeast reactors for freshwater, was wondering when someone would design one for calcium reactors, thanks! (: I didn't want to be the one to experiment myself, I got enough problems already. I too have a couple debris free very stable tanks with no skimmer, zero phosphate nitrate...
  18. Electrokate

    how to get rid of alage

    Am tagging along. I have an algae problem as well, I believe caused by detritus settling on rock due to low flow (unplugged during a water change and forgot to plug back in). Add nitrate and/or phosphate and the algae will show up. How to get rid of it quickly, easily and permanently... that's...
  19. Electrokate

    Yellow Clown Goby

    I actually wondered if it was a caged animal syndrome type of deal. They will clear an area of polyps on their resident sps and lay their eggs here but this one had no mate. Perhaps it was hoping to attract a mate by clearing all the sps in the area. But that doesn't explain them eating other...
  20. Electrokate

    seahorse forum

    Hi, I am still interested in dwarf seahorses and H erectus... would love to be on the waiting list of anyone who is willing to sell their captive raised offspring. Thanks, Kate
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