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    What Killed My Fish And What Should I Do

    in New to the Hobby

    Something can be done- Keep smaller fishes that have been shipped this way in QT for at least a week. If you know something like this occurs, it is your job as the retailer to make sure that the fish are healthy enough to be sold.

     

     

    I just wondered if you would clarify this statement. When I read this, it sounds to me like you are specifically pointing out Sean and Aquaco of not quarentining their fish. He does quarentine.

     

    It would sound better if you changed it to specify all retailers.

     

    Sandy

    New Clowns

    in General Discussion

    · Edited by smarsh97

    By ORA standards (the way that I understand them) the one clown is a Grade A, if you notice the middle bar and front bar connect. The standard is that they only have to connect on one side and from what I understand on one bar has to connect (going to research this right now).

     

    I have a pair of Grade A's. I paid 100 each for them from a breeder in NC. Those are very nice fish you got. I love their markings. If I could ever get a picture of them (I stink at taking pictures) I would post them.

     

    Sandy

     

    P.S. I just called ORA because I couldn't find the information on the internet. According to their sales department it doesn't have anything to do with how many bars connect but with how much actual white is on the body. So the fish with the most white on their bodies become the A's and so forth.

    Flow for a 24 Aquapod?

    in Nano Tanks

    I upgraded to a MJ900. I had to use a piece of tubing small enough to fit on the Maxi jet and then slipped that into the tubing that came with the tank.

     

    I wish I could tell you what size but it's been so long I can't remember.

     

    Sandy

    I found a small 3" cucumber?

    in General Discussion

    I had a tiger tail that took the ride to the sump. He then got sucked into the return pump and shot all over the tank. I picked out all the pieces I could find and then ran carbon on the tank. Nothing was harmed.

     

    If it is a tiger tail, they are not toxic, at least that is what everyone says. I also had a tiger tail die in my 30 gal and nothing ever happened to the tank.

     

    Sandy

    I found a small 3" cucumber?

    in General Discussion

    Mostl likely not healthy, when they starve they shrink up.

     

    Sandy

     

     

    I found a small 3"? cucumber in my sump today the only cucumbers I've ever added to my tank was a huge 7 inch one and he eventually got attacked and put in the sump... so my question are these guys like earthworms and he just got split in the pump, is he a baby, or is this the same one just not as healthy? We are talking about 3" of missing tissue strange eye I'm just glad to see the little guy!

    Roozen's

    in Vendor Experience

    since when did they get cheap prices. I have never been there that they had cheap prices. Everything is rare and from Sri Lanka and costs an arm and a leg.

     

    Sandy

    Mandarin Goby

    in General Discussion

    or you could purchase pods or raise pods yourself. There are lots of places on the web that tell you how to raise your own pods. I have been contemplating this with my baby mandarin.

     

    Sandy

    Hitchhiker ID

    in General Discussion

    not sure about the first one but his claws are not like those of the really bad crabs, pointy and black.

     

    The second one is most definitely a porcelain crab. He is a good guy. I would throw him back in.

     

    Sandy

    Mandarin Goby

    in General Discussion

    Oh sorry, Marine Ornamental Fish and Invertebrate Breeders.

     

    There was a very long thread on another forum of a guy who had a breeding pair of Mandanrins in a 24 gal aquapod. He trained them both onto prepared foods and they spawned on a regular basis.

     

    I can't wait until the day that we see no more starving mandarins and scooters in some stores (not all cause I've seen some fat ones recently at a store).

     

    Sandy

    Mandarin Goby

    in General Discussion

    · Edited by smarsh97

    there are more than a very few who can teach their mandarins to eat prepared foods. On MOFIB almost all the mandarins are eating prepared foods.

     

    The way they do it is to put your mandarin in a breeding net and start by offering live brine, then mix in frozen brine, they mix in mysid and then leave out the live brine. Once you get them eating prepared foods good, then release them from the breeders net.

     

    I think soon you will see captive bred mandarins all ready eating prepared foods on the market.

     

    Sandy

    Roozen's

    in Vendor Experience

    I don't know how knowledgable he is. I guess if you believe that everything is rare and from Sri Lanka, then yeah maybe he was. I did like him and once you get to know him he wouldn't rip you off so bad.

     

    Sandy

    Adding Reef Pods

    in General Discussion

    I would turn off the pump for about 15 minutes. This will give them time to get into the macro and not get sucked out by the pump.

     

    Just dump the bag in, I would acclimate it to the temp of the tank first, then dump it in.

     

    Sandy

     

    I started up a refugium with chaeto and calerpa (sp?) this week. I also bought a bag of live copepods. Do I just add the enture bag to the fuge? Add some over time? Do I turn off the fuge pump for any period of time?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Eric.

    S-strain Rotifers, anyone growing these

    in General Discussion

    there is a lady on MOFIB's website selling starter cultures for 10 bucks. However, I was hoping there was someone close by as the watchmans are due to hatch starting late tonight through Tues. So he wouldn't have them in time if he ordered from her. There are a few places on the internet that you can order them from, but we were trying to get them local. The company who sent him the wrong strain is resending the S Strain but it won't get here until later in the week.

     

    I am sure he woul give/sell you a starter once he gets his going. I will let him know you are looking too. He's a cool dude.

     

    Sandy

    S-strain Rotifers, anyone growing these

    in General Discussion

    Hi,

     

    I am asking for a friend who order some S strain Rotifers and had them overnight them and when he got them they were larger than his L-strain.

     

    He needs them for a watchman goby hatch that should happen in the next few days.

     

    If anyone has any and would be willing to sell some, that would be awesome.

     

    TIA

     

    Sandy

    Nano Scam?

    in Nano Tanks

    I stand corrected, I didn't look at the names as I kept reading. It was 3 or 4 other people who stated that their nano tanks without sand and rock didn't hold nearly the volume of water they claimed to hold.

     

    Sandy

     

    "well i put 20 gallons of water in the whole thing with rock and sand so AT MOST its 25 gallon i would proably say around 22 gallons

     

    So really for lighting if it is 29 gallons you would say 2.4 watts per gallon

     

    but if u factor ACTUAL WATER IT HOLD IN THE MAIN TANK i would say your a little over 3.2 watts per gallon

     

    Make sense?? "

     

    Emphasis on the fact that if you read the post he does state that the rock and sand are in the tank. My 8 gallon biocube held 8 gallons before I added the sand and rock work, I tested it out of curiousity. After 8-9 lbs of sand and another pound or two of rock I think it is down to 5 or six gallons of actual water. I anticipated this as all I wanted to do was increase my 3 gallons filtering efficiency and compacity as well as double my current water volume. Taking in to consideration potential displacement I purchased the 8 gallon.

    Nano Scam?

    in Nano Tanks

    I read the whole post and the guy didn't have anything in the tank when he filled it up and it only held 20 or so gallons. That is not 29. I think there is probably displacement for the false wall and all that, but not 7 gallons worth of displacement.

     

    So if it only holds 20-22 when empty, it holds a lot less than that when it's filled with rock and livesand. I think most of us make the assumption that a 29 gal tank holds 29 gal without taking into consideration of displacement. I did when I got my first nano. It didn't take me long to figure that out.

     

    Sandy

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