Recent content by jda123

Lysmatta Wurdemanni are from the Flordia Keys, are the best at eating aiptasia and almost never eat coral unless they are starving - we would eat coral too in this situation. The others are hit and miss on both. Don't take a chance and buy peppermints unless you know where they come from...

When people have purchased things from me, I have given to Coral Reef Alliance, Scripps Oceanographic (funds pHd programs for their students for good folks to carry on tomorrow), Save the Reef and also had people give money to Mural to buy things for his school tank.

Can you take some photos in daylight? Best thing to do is usually go back to basics and make sure that your refractometer is calibrated dead-on-balls accurate, temp is correct and all of that.

I want a tank that I can light with a single Metal Halide. 36x36 is going to be it.

We will see if I find a tank. Probably have no interest in ordering something at full retail, so I might be the guy with 1000 lbs of GBR, MI, Fiji and other good real live rock in bins for a decade.

I don't have any charity suggestions, but see if an organization like Bone Marrow registration, or the like, will come and register people at the event... and encourage the members to get on the registry. This is kinda reverse charity that might pay off years down the road in a big-time way.

Probably nobody knows what a 300 2G is. What are the dimensions that you are looking for and/or will fit?

I know that this is a long shot, but thought that I would ask before I went and looked elsewhere. Over 100 gallons is what I am looking for and a 36x36x27/30 would be great. Time to let my larger tanks go and get some smaller ones.

Just out of curiosity, with the short lifespan, will you start more juveniles ahead of time to have them ready to replace the adults? If you just keep the home co2 below 500 ppm, then pH should not be an issue with any tank. It will help the humans, dogs, cats and everything. However, the...

Most people spend more battling dinos and filamentous algae than they would have spent if they had purchase live rock in the first place. You can catch a shrimp or crab in a bottle trap in a day or two, but dinos or hair algae can take a year or more. GFO, Al Oxide and other orthophosphate...

The Eheim has been awesome for a few decades. Super reliable and the batteries last for a long time. They are not expensive either.

The clowns usually have to acclimate slowly so that their slime coat can build up. Even clowns and other damsels (same fish with different costumes) can get captured and eaten if they just dive in without making changes to their bodies first. This is likely why it took a while. You can...

Peer reviews and other comments on the sea bird article seem to indicate that what allows the birds to thrive is what makes the reef more healthy, not the bird's themselves - the article is too generic, did not cite the birds or any analysis of the poop which, etc. The fish available for food...

In nearly all cases, algae will outcompete any coral for what it needs. Your coral will want/need to get nitrogen from ammonia, so you have to keep feeding your fish or else your corals can suffer. Macro algae can use no3 - micro algae generally cannot and the host has to use energy to convert...

You should at least mention that PAR is a human-eye derived measurement and there are wavelengths both below 400nm and above 700nm that are beneficial for photosynthetic things. This is all very complicated, but even one sentence about how true UVA can help corals fluoresce or that IR from...