Vitaminz

HI! :drunk:

I have 2 clowns in my tank, and they get along just fine.

Arrow Crabs are tremendous scavengers and are highly sought after for their diet of Bristle Worms and Flat Worms.

Welcome Stacey, what size is your setup, also do you have any pics?

Yahhh for you getting into Salt Water! Welcome, and we need some pics of your current setup!

Welcome, you need to come back over to the salt side! *does a jedi wave* lol

Love the Nickname! lol Welcome Aboard!

Welcome to the Forum! Need pics of your setup....Wana see your salt side! lol

Welcome to the community, you have any pics of your setups?

Ok so time for an update...I considered scraping it, but to be honest, now that it is all setup, I really like the blue comming thru with the black mixed it. Gives it that unique look. And yes that is pvc threaded sprinkler nipples, and abs elbows, and got it dirt cheap, somebody owed me a favor.... So I got to work on modifying the trickle filter into a sump. Got 2 pieces of glass cut, and put them in myself....Yes I know it isn't purdy, but it works, and it is a sump.... Then I got to work on my overflow bulkhead... Took a piece of Lexan that I had kicking around and made myself some teeth on the end of it... Also picked up 60lbs of sand for $50, and used my current tank to seed it. So after a few days of adding in the water and playing around with the sump level and the gate vales, here is what it looks like. Yes still a little bit cloudy, but what can you do?

Ok, so Had great success with a 10, then a 30, now time to move up to a 50.... Picked up a tank and stand from Calgary, it was already drilled, so got to work masking off the back pane of glass. Ok, so here is the story, bought some metalic blue rust paint from home depot, followed the directions to the T, The paint would not stick to the glass, so to speak...No matter how slow I went or how little I put on, it started to to run....grrrr... So I decided to go for arylic black instead, some of the blue wouldn't come off, and I didn't want to wait to use a chemical stripper, so I just painted over the blue, some it it shows thru on the front, but oh well. So now that atleast hides the piping behind the tank. So got to work plumbing the thing out: Got a Small trickle filter that I am going to turn into a sump with refugium: Next step is to now modify the trickle filter to a sump.... and build in the overflow. Will update when I finish that project.

Saltwater Ghost Shrimp (Palaemontes Vulgaris) This most durable little marine shrimp, Palaemonetes vulgaris, is an incredible eater of encrusted algaes and detritus in the marine aquarium. In fact, this little shrimp (maximum size is one inch) will out-eat small ocean hermit crabs by 10 to 1. For you mini reefers out there this new live janitor shrimp is perfect. The shrimp will not harm live coral, tube worms, or any other invertebrate larger than itself. Aquarists have been looking for affordable saltwater feeder shrimp for years, here it is. Unlike the freshwater ghost shrimp that will only live in saltwater for maybe 10 minutes, this saltwater feeder will live forever in your tank or until captured by some hungry fish. We have customers that say they can go on a week's vacation or so and be assured that the fish are being fed properly without those messy and unreliable dry feeders. Just put 100 saltwater feeders in the tank and leave. The fish get them as they can and by the time you get back from vacation the fish are happy and the tank is not rotten from an auto feeder getting stuck open. What an ideal creature.

Anybody in Edmonton, activly stocking salt water ghost shrimp?

Was there any Barry White playing? Sounds like something touched him in that special way.... Just because there is no other snails around, doesn't mean he can't knock of a few knuckle children....lol

Nice Tank!, Love the shape!

Come over to the SALT SIDE... it is much better over here!! lol

The Peppermint Shrimp is a carnivore, scavenging the bottom of the aquarium, and sifting sand for food. In captivity it will accept a varied diet of prepared fresh and frozen foods suitable for carnivores, vitamin enriched flakes, freeze dried krill, or live adult brine shrimp or nauplii. Best fed at least once per day. This shrimp is known for eating aiptasia anemones! It eat them like candy! Place 3 or 4 to a tank to really clean up infestations. Once all the anemones are gone though, you must provide food for them. Don't allow the aiptastia to grow larger than an inch or so, because the shrimp won't go after really large ones

Ok to get ride of Aipstasia, you can go one of 2 routes that I know that work. One is pepermint shrimp, they love to eat that stuff....Two is Chemical, lots of them out there, just have to do your research. Your Bristle worms can be removed by obtain a piece of PVC pipe and drill a number of holes in it that are approximately 1/4 inch in diameter (larger holes may be necessary depending on the size of the bristleworms you are attempting to remove). Once the lights have gone out for the night place a piece of fresh shrimp or scallop in the pipe, cap both ends and then set the pipe on the bottom of your aquarium. In the morning remove the pipe, uncap one end and dispose of the worms that it contains. You will have to use this technique over a period of weeks to make an impact on a large bristleworm population. As for your cycle, it depends on if the live rock stays alive or dies off from your water parameters... Hope this helps. Jeff

Could he have starved? Often they are like Mandarins and starve for lack of pods to eat.

I usual put the fish, or fishes in a ice cream bucket, depending on the size of the fish, emtpy the bag with the fish and wanter into it. Then I grab my airline tube and valve (to slow down, or speed up the flow) to achieve a drip, from my tank wanter down to the ice cream bucket. That is the way I do it, other people might have some other ideas. Jeff

Tank Update 9-16-2010 So I thought it was about time I broke in my new SLR camera and take some high res photo's. Added a few new corals from a generous reefer, you know who you are! lol

I'll keep that in mind! I usually see saltwater fish in bigger tanks at the stores, except for seahorses, so I thought I would need a big one. I love coral, it's one of the main things I love about saltwater! Though, what is a nano? A nano reef is a type of marine aquarium that is typically less than 30 gallons. Nano reefs have become quite popular in recent years among fish keeping hobbyists, primarily because of their smaller size, maintainability, and the possibility of lower costs. The burgeoning interest in this niche of marine aquarium science has fostered several notable contributions ranging from specific consumer products such as specialized aquarium filters, compact high intensity lighting systems and smaller circulation pumps. Such equipment allows the aquarist to maintain an environment wherein many marine organisms are capable of thriving. http://www.nano-reef.com/fish/ is a list of fish that you can place in a nano reef, they also have alot of information on keeping a nano reef. Hope this helps sway you over to the Salt Side *evil laugh* Jeff

Welcome to the site! That 10g would make a great nano tank, and in my personal opion, a great way to start off in salt water. Kind of gets your feet wet, and if you make a mistake, you don't have alot invested. But be warned, salt water is very addicting...Especially with the corals...lol Jeff

Nice pic, but what is with the mannequin in the background with handcuffs???? LMAO Never mind, some things are better left unexplained.....