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One thing that has screwed me up on occasion is this: If the skimmer goes out of adjustment and you keep dosing vodka, the crap builds up in the tank super fast. It's happened when I've gone on vacation and had a neighbor keep dosing vodka. The tank gets a crappy look, cyano develops, but not...

I went back and read this thread from the beginning. Well, not the "lost year" but all the rest. 1) I can't believe it's been four years! 2) I can't believe all the crap I did to get it going! I always have that reaction when I look back on a project, but geez! 3) Trying to figure out where...

One cool note from the BioCube: Last night the orange prawn goby paired up wiuth the candy cane pistol shrimp, at least for a little while. I guess the goby is over his broken heart. I think the process is somewhat dependent on the shrimp digging a big enough burrow, usually the candy pistol...

I totally do want to try it Bax, bring it on! Like in Pulp Fiction, my reef is a hell of a long way from alright! I remember when stuff was doing great in there, I could put stuff in there and it would grow or at least do okay. Not these days. I want to get back to that place.

I talked with Jeff Curry and he identified at least part of my problem as dinoflagellates, the golden-brown gook. I am going to darken the tank for a few days and see if that helps. Last night I cleaned out a bunch of the gunk while siphoning out 10G of water. I got a box from BRS with, among...

I wish I had that info, but the tank and the sump = 250G plus a surprising amount in the plumbing, call it 200G with the rocks.

Yay! Good luck!

Wow I would totally like to give that a shot -- not that I dont get lots of skimmate when it's running good. Would my iwaki md100 be an ok pump? Once I throttled it back I was able to gradually let the flow out and I am getting good skimming, but it is an ancient design and I would like to give...

Skimmer's bioball mixing tower was very clogged--water was backing up out of the air intake! Cleaned the skimmer and bioballs, now trying to get the @#$%ing thing under control, it's skimmed out 10G of pale green water so far...I had to throttle back the pump, only the second time I've had to do...

Couple of thoughts and updates: The biocube shrimp/goby display continues to entertain. I have to echo what Mike said several pages back about pistol shrimp. The candy cane pistol is a very pretty creature, but the tiger pistol is the best one to get. Dig, dig, dig, all day long. Quite the...

Saw a kind of cool thing today. The pom Pom crab managed to divide his single anemone so he now has an anemone in each claw. When he arrived he only had one. Cool critter!

What a nice group of angels you have, it's a dream collection! I'm happy for your majestic angel. I love my majestic. They are pretty tough, mine survived a power cut that killed most of my fancy fish in the October snowstorm.

More craziness in the Biocube shrimp display. I ordered two new shrimp gobies and one "assorted" pistol shrimp. The shrimp that arrived actually shed I the bag, a bad sign I think. It was completely colorless, I don't know what it's going to look like. It went into the tank and I haven't seen...

They are really nice fish, they get right in with the crowd, do not hide. They swim together, they split up, then together, very good display critters. Still haven't eaten dry food but they do like the mysis!

The orange spotted prawn goby, beat up and died: The Candy Pistol (Alpheus Randalli) in his burrow.

The elusive pom-pom crab: More of the Burgess' The Candy Pistol:

So almost before I could stop it, the existing goby (orange striped) beat the new goby (orange spotted) half to death. I removed it to a floating container but it died later. $14 shot to hell, good thing I didn't buy a dracula goby. The bigger candy pistol started building a burrow right against...

Yeah.. there's a weird thing going on; almost Shakespearian...I'm probably not as smart as I think. More later.

Candy Pistols came in larger than expected, bigger then the tiger pistol in fact. Bumblebee shrimp were smaller, one was embarrassingly small for $10, almost invisible. I thought the would "bee" like the ones I got last time, sort of jelly bean sized. Orange spot goby is fine, evrybody arrived...

Shrimp and friend My new pistols are coming today. One of the gobies is coming, orange spotted, but the other one, black highfin, is out of stock and will come another day.