Hi,The orchids I photograph are all wild orchids native to Montana.Right now, it is like this out of my window,[img]The wild...
Hi Albedo,You want a mixture where the particle size averages roughly between 0.100 and 0.250 mm. The majority of the particles, ideally,...
Hi,Ha! I consider sand that is 1 mm in diameter generally to be too coarse for sand beds...
Hi Albedo,Animals in the sand may move up and down in the sand vertically. Most don't move a lot laterally.In small spaces water sticks...
Hi Salim,It is one of many reasons why sand beds work the way they do. :deal:
Hi Albedo,Really, the time of day doesn't matter too much; most of these animals really don't move much on a diurnal scale. Probably the best...
Hi Colt,I don't like any of the artificial sea water mixes overly much. On the other hand, I live 1200 km from the nearest real ocean, so I...
Juan,Gracias!
Hi,I would take the sample using a corer made of PVC pipe, roughly 2 cm in diameter and 10 cm long. So the samples would come from the upper...
HiIncubus, thanks! I was wondering what what was happening here.Albedo,I would go first to a sandy or muddy area as far from any...
Hi Carlos,What you described would work very well. About the only thing you have to be careful of is to make sure that the area where you are...
Hi,The small whelks that are called "bee" or "bumble bee" snails (species in the genus Engina (also known, incorrectly, as =Pusiostoma or...
Hi,These animals are quite territorial. In a normal-sized tank, say less than 500 L, 2 females will generally fight until one of them is...
Hi,It appears the first shrimp was immature, an essesntially sexless juvenile. It probably grew into maturity in the tank as a female....
Hi Eduardo,Switching salt mixes of any sort often seems to result in bleaching. No artificial salt mix is very close to natural sea water in...
My opinion of the sand bed in a bucket is that it is an idea whose time should never have come.It is simply garbage proposed by people who...
Hi,I think L. Riper is correct.The Jaubert system is an unnecessary modification of deep sand bed. I generally see no pros to it, and a...
Hi,Live rock is a very poor substitute for recharging live sand. Animals that live in sand generally do not live in sand, or vice versa....
Hi,Proper management of a sand bed begins with the proper installation. This means, primarily, sediment with the appropriate particle size...
Hola Incubus,Well, you have some straight-forward questions. However, the answers are somewhat complex and involved. :drbig:If you have...
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