snookie986

I took him out to smell when he wasn't reacting that was the only time ever that he'd been out of water. he was definitely dead. i think the anemone did strike back. ammonia was between 0.0 and 0.25 ppm. i think the phosphates spiked, because i noticed a lot of red algae pop up. nitrates and nitrites are undetectable. I'm getting a phos reactor in the next week so hopefully that'll help.

I'm afraid it's too late. It's definitely dead. no response to touch, smells like crap and there are holes in the mantle :(

He's at the bottom of a 65g tall tank. I have ahd him now for three months. I have a 250w mh 1400k bulb and a power compact set up with two 96 watt bulbs.

I noticed that my clam is acting weird. his mantle is pulled all the way inside his shell. there aren't any problems with any of the other inhabitants. although my condylactis anemone did disappear about a week and a half ago. I just did a 50% water change yesterday. the clam's mantle is still a bright blue. any ideas? thanks

Thanks! I plan on getting a larger tank in a year or so for the tangs. As for the pictures, I love photography and I seriously spend at least an hour in front of the tank for a session. I probably take at least 100 photos at a time. I just pick out the best ones. I'm using a pretty basic camera, it's a Fuji s700 7.2 mega pixels, I just play with all the manual settings to get the right shot. I also spent an hour trying to catch my scooter blenny do some kind of mating display, I finally got it on video. Any one know how/where to post videos? I'll definitely bring it to the next meeting though.

I've been using a three-prong timer I got at fred meyers now for about 4 months on my 250 w MH sytem. works fine for me

HAHA!! yeah I know what it is, and i like killing them!! I just think they are beautiful creatures though. that's not on my creature list. If I didn't know what that was I deserve a kick in the face. thanks though for the concern. I'll be posting more pictures.

Hello all, I just joined PNWMAS today. I have been a reefer now for a little over a year and I can't ever get enough of it. There is nothing like looking in to a world that you have created and finding little creatures and corals pop up out of nowhere. I currently have a 65 gal reef tank it's 36 x 18 x 24 inches. I'm running a single 250w MH light and two 96w compacts in a custom hood that I built. I have four powerheads creating the current. for filtration I have a seaclone skimmer and a Rena cannister filter. There is probably 50 lbs of live sand and 100 lbs of live rock. Fish: 2 percula clowns 1 blue tang 1 atlantic yellow tang 3 blue reef chromis 1 purple psuedochromis 1 scooter blenny 1 firefish 1 flame angel 1 pink and blue spotted goby 1 sand sifting/diamond/orange spotted goby (scratch) 1 bangaii kardinal 1 snowflake eel (in a separate tank) Inverts: 1 crocea clam 1 skunk cleaner shrimp 1 condy anenome 1 sand sifting sea star misc hermit crabs misc snails 1 pink urchin assrtd mushroom corals 1 kenya tree green star polyps brown and bright green zoo's hammerhead coral scab polyps and a few other mystery corals too That's my tank. I'm working on a photobucket site right now. http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/gg302/snookie986/ Next thing to go in the tank is a few red mangroves. I set up a planter type thing to hang the trees into the tank to aid in water purification. I'm excited, the trees will be about 9 inches tall and will just peek out of the hood. my future plans entail getting a 110 to 125 gallon tank when I move. this is my second tank so i know what it takes to move one, not fun. If i'm not up to my neck in saltwater everyday then something is truly wrong.