Recent content by spuri87

Not yet, juvenile Females are not as pretty as the male adults which are the colorful fish we see online.. I heard the lifespan of these wrasses after they turn what they call in stores as 'Supermales' is only a couple of years, not sure how true is that, but given that most wrasses live for 5-7...

My clowns chose to sleep on the surface instead of the nem I added.. at first I thought if they had swim bladder disease or something, but nope.. clowns being clowns!! Luckily one of the 4 clowns found the nem and sleeps in there.. I see at least 2 other clowns trying to convince this clown to...

I have a juvenile in my tank.. About 1 inch, very active and always out there in the open with the bigger wrasses.. can’t wait for it to grow and show its ‘true colors’

got in line after talking to @Darkxerox when I met him today.. he shared some great insights and recommended that adding these to my tank may also help with the high nutrients situation.. Anybody who has 1, please let me know if this become available

I would like a frag of this one. This post was automatically created by BARcode

I dont even have earthquake insurance.. Feels like we are sitting on a ticking bomb.. Maybe time to spend that 3k for another may-be-useful-in-future insurance! As soon as I got the alert, I did run to check on my tank! so many things that can go wrong in this hobby

Do you think feeding brine shrimp from hatchery caused these 2 deaths? I read some posts on R2R that Anthias dying with its mouth open usually indicates acute respiratory distress, often caused by low oxygen levels, high ammonia/nitrite, or parasitic infections in the gills. Not saying one of...

@Alejandro_1403 @Patio are you guys using Float Valve by any chance? I had the same issue with Aquatic Life RO Buddie few months back where TDS would just creep up within few days/weeks of usage.. I found out that they don't advice using Float valves, stating that the DI resin can't 'handle' it...

Thank you for the guidance on how to measure with diluted water.. I will try that next.. appreciate you sharing your experiences.. I do have Red Sea reefmat 1200 sitting in my garage.. I am just awful with plumbing so not collecting the courage to install it in my tank yet since it apparently...

Interesting, thanks for sharing.. my apologies, I am a sucker for logic behind everything and these links help feed my mind :)

Appreciate your reflection on the situation @MichaelB .. I hvnt dosed anything or tried anything extreme (yet) after the 1st fish was added in the tank :) In fact, I havn't tried anything except add Rowaphos and do a water change :D Again, the only thing that didn't work was before the 1st...

this was my conversation with my LFS guy on 2nd October AFTER he added Lanthanum Chloride but that didnt bring it down.. I added 1st fish on 11th October.. 155 translates to 0.475 ppm phosphates and follow up conversation a week later (2 days before I added fish) after I added more Lanthanum...

I just assumed that a lot of water changes over the course of next few months will bring the number back in range, so current number is just 'X' for me which I know is super high but probably something I dont need to care.. Is my assumption incorrect? Do I need to know 'X'? Michael did offer me...

Not expecting 1 water change to magically reduce everything, but I like to track something so that I can go back and check what I did and if I could have done anything better, so documenting the numbers in this thread: 03/31 (1:30 PM) : About 20 hours after 1st 20% Water change (~40 gal) + 125g...

After being MIA for over 45 days, look who finally showed up! I added Pistol Shrimp and watchman goby together, and the pair got lost! I could not spot the pistol shrimp the day after I added it to the tank, I assumed it became an expensive meal for my wrasses.. A week ago, goby started moving...