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  1. gomrjoe

    What do you feed your corals?

    a lot of good suggestions here. I personally use marine snow, cyclopseeze for my LPS. I use frozen silver sides for my anemone.
  2. gomrjoe

    Jumping fish question

    I had a Firefish do the same thing about 1 year ago.
  3. gomrjoe

    topping off water

    I live in Miami and the tap water quality here is pretty good. You should be able to get a report from the water board or regulating body that handles the water in your area to see where it is. The biggest problem I have to deal with is phosphates, for that I use a phosban reactor. For top off...
  4. gomrjoe

    Replacement 2x65 Watt Ballast question

    That is what I was thinking. I could just salvage the cords from the casing of my bad ballast and move them over to be used with the raw replacement ballast. Although the raw ballast does come with the basic wires, I am not sure that the are long enough, but I would prefer to use the wires I...
  5. gomrjoe

    Replacement 2x65 Watt Ballast question

    Has anyone had to, or tried replacing a Sunpaq 2x65 Watt ballast with one of the raw ballast replacements that you see online? I have a 2x65 Current USA ballast and one of the lights is dead, the other works fine. I really only need the replacement ballast itself, I don't want to by the whole...
  6. gomrjoe

    Clown bites me

    Clowns are funny, percs in particular. I can literally hand feed my mated pair, particularly the female. She will come up and swim into my hand and eat the food right from my palm, I totally would not need a net to scoop her up. Every time I work in my tank she is constantly swimming right up to...
  7. gomrjoe

    Button Polyp Control

    Thanks for the PM's everyone but I already scraped them off the night before and took them to my LFS, that way I didn't have to worry about shipping. I think I got them all, the forceps thing worked very well. If I see other pop up I will post again.
  8. gomrjoe

    What do I need to supplement?

    Absolultely agree with Reefscape, Reef Crystals or similar quality brand of salt works wonders. Bi-weekly water change will cover most trace elements usually up until the next change, depending on your bioload, evaporation and skimmer as Zebodog mentioned. I have a 100 gallon and only have a...
  9. gomrjoe

    Button Polyp Control

    Thanks, I'll try that out. My LFS says he will take them off my hands in exchange for free water and some small (Free) pieces of LR now and then for fragging purposes. That works for me and at least I am not intending on killing any of them needlessly. If someone buys them from him more power to...
  10. gomrjoe

    Big Nitrate Problems need help....

    So would I. You could use a Nitrate sponge medium, but then you would have to have a reactor or something like that. I have seen others do it and that worked for them. How often are you doing water changes, and equally important how much are you feeding and what is your bioload? If you do...
  11. gomrjoe

    Button Polyp Control

    As I said, I have never personally shipped live stock so I don't know, but if anything could these guys and Xenia might.
  12. gomrjoe

    Button Polyp Control

    have you seen any of them re-grow from any remaining tissue when you have done this?
  13. gomrjoe

    Button Polyp Control

    If anyone wanted to simply pay for shipping I would give them away! I have never shipped live stock though personally, I know Fed Ex does it. I have probably about 30 to 40 polyps give or take, mabe a little less. These are the off purple with a pink center. Under Actinic lighting they look...
  14. gomrjoe

    Button Polyp Control

    Long time since I posted. I have a 100 gallon tank mix of softies and stonies. In the last 4 months a rogue button polyp colony had gotten out of control. I recently took out the rocks that it had infested and traded them in at my LFS and he gave me equivalent weight in live rock, so I am happy...
  15. gomrjoe

    ID help

    I agree with the others definitely a pair of pests. You can try injecting them with vinegar if you have a siringe. Or take the rock out and scrape off every last bit of the offenders. Just be careful if you decide to inject them, make sure you pinch the siringe squarely into the mouth of the...
  16. gomrjoe

    Unknown Tunnel Maker

    Have you noticed that your hermit crab population is slowly shrinking? That could be another sign... pistols and mantis love to feast on hermit crabs. I had a pistol in my tank for over a year, I fed him for a while, then got tired of cleaning up his mess (colapsed rocks), and he was feasting on...
  17. gomrjoe

    bubble on frogspawn

    I have the same thing on my frogspawn, it is definitely starting to split. That is what they look like as they start to split. As for your avatar and your husband... I wouldn't be jealous, but I am a reefer, probably doesn't count. My wife makes comments now and then that she didn't realize...
  18. gomrjoe

    Could a pistol shrimp kill a boxer shrimp??

    I agree with Niko, both are good candidates. Mantis shrimp will actually come out with the lights on, it is rare but they will sometimes. Pistols, very rare that they will show themselves. You can get a flashlight and put some red tissue paper over it and wait for your lights to turn off...
  19. gomrjoe

    Acclimating Fish.

    Additional acclimation tip would be to turn off your lights for 30 minutes to 1 hour, this helps them too.
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