Not all pistol shrimps are bad. I have one that lives with my watchman..sri lankan tiger pistol..fierce as it looks..but darn docile..does'nt even harm anything..not even boxing crabs or 1cm thor amboinensis.
Check out ML ppl...lots of brazilian grammas..orchid dottybacks...neon gobies...and Yellow-headed jawfish!
So happy i finally got my own yellow-headed jawfish...after years of waiting.
Whatever the price of the fish, it is best not to let temptation get the best of you unless you really have the proper setup and done the proper reading up...
Good luck to you in your seahorses anyway.
Thanks man!
Anyway..think I will need to understand the chemistry on how adding sodium bicarbonate to my water will actually lower the levels of calcium. Will bicarbonate preferentially precipitate out with calcium instead of sodium? My chemistry rusty already....
r*b*rn
-lots of octopus branch corals
-orange fan sponges
-banded pipefish
-Another pipefish (forgot name..but long n snake-like)
-lots of fromia (or formia?)(cant remember) sea stars...
-some healthy looking purple queen anthias (seen swimming actively and pecking at stuff in the water)
-nudibranchs (forever available )
-tonnes of banggai cardinals
-tonnes of blood shrimp
-boxing shrimp (both the normal one and the yellow thorax species)
-brain corals
-sun corals
-sea fans
-gonioporas
-turtle weed
Check out their display tank on the first floor at the entrance...IMPRESSIVE! Although upon looking at the lights I was..erm..stunned...2 T5s for such a deep tank.
Now..this has been puzzling.....bought my salifert Mg test kit and salifert Mg powder today....
Measured my Mg levels...it is at 1410ppm.
I bought the Mg powder for nothing.....
Measured Ca levels...around 500ppm....
Now..here comes the puzzling part....
The day before I measured my kH it was at 8.7.
Yesterday I measured my kH and it was at 7.7.
Today I measured it again and it has dropped to 6.7.
Why is my kH dropping by 1 each day?!
The lowest I have seen my kH is at 6...that was when I first bought my kH test kit after my tank was 6 months old?
What should I do?!
Could adding freshwater as top-up decrease my kH in any way?
Help.....I have run out of brain power.....
People who normally dun have luck of gobies
1) People who own aggressive fishes
2) People who fill their tank to the rim..or only 1-5cm from the top of the tank.