[emccullough1]

My Royal Gramma likes to get sand in his mouth and spit it all over the place. Is that normal or is he wanting some thing?

[cappy290]

Thats kinda funny my Royal Gramma always stays in the rock work and comes out when i feed the fish. My bullet Goby is always sifting through the sand with his mouth, sucks sometimes bc he always gets sand all over my rock and corals. Well hopefully there is nothing wrong maybe just a bad taste in his mouth lol..

[emccullough1]

My Royal Gramma stayed hiden for the first week and a half and still stayes close to a hiding spot. But he is out in view most of the time now. I just love his or her colorers

[cappy290]

Ya i love the color on these fish something really nice to look at. I see you have the Nano Fission skimmer how does this work for u? I bought one and could not get it to work right at all Darn thing kept putting out so many micro bubbles that it killed my xenia I did take it back and i got store credit for it matter of fact I just picked up a polyp for 19.99 so that was cool plus they ordered me a pepermint shrimp which should be in today some time.

[emccullough1]

I finely got my'n working some what . I got rid of the elbows ,turned the pump so the pick up is pointed up and set it as high as I could. It works half A#& that way but I have to clean the filter pad every day or it will start to over flow out the top. And the bubbles are there but not bad enough to cause a problem now that I got it in the sump. The bubble trap gets rid of them. I'm thinking of making a skimmer and using the pump on it and some air stones ( wooden ) If it works I'll post it in the DYI section.

[cappy290]

I just lost my patience with the skimmer i gave up on in one week. I have been doing water changes every week now to keep down the nitrates I need more water so i will problably go to the store and get some ro/di tonight since i am picking up that pepermint shrimp anyway. I am hoping to get these nitrates down to zero with these water changes. I just did a 5 or 7 gal water change sunday u think its to soon to do another one? I sure dont want to kill anything or shock any of the live stock.

[emccullough1]

Before I added the Sump/Refugium I was changing water twice a week. What a pain and not cheep ether. But with it and the mangroves I'm at every other week now. and that is for trace elements. before I could not keep my nitrats below 20 Now I read around 5 to 10 at two weeks and I'm feeding heavy.