Here he is...

[The Wedge]

My first inhabitant/explorer a Y bar perc?

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PS. can I use distilled water to calibrate my refractometer I just received Via UPS

[teach]

Beautiful fish. congrats

[Tigerbarb]

Nice pix! I was thinking about getting a true percula clown when I was setting up my tank.

[The Wedge]

Got my refractometer from marine depot...what a cool little instrument. I calibrated it by my air conditioner so the surrounding temperature is closer to 68 F. I used RO/DI to calibrated. My SG is 1.026. I might remove some of my water tomorrow and add some RO/DI to the powerhead so it mixes well before hitting the main tank. 1.026 isn't bad is it. I truly do not get alot of evaporation in my aquapod even when I leave the feeding lid open.

[travie]

As long as it doesn't get above 1.026, it is fine.

[kaybee]

Distilled water may work when ''calibrating to zero', but you may also want to consider calibrating against a known salinity (such as a calibration fluid ([Only Registered Users Can See Links.])) in addition to/instead of that for even greater accuracy.

[The Wedge]

I found him on the bottom doin' this weird maneuver last night when I came in from the Gov't Mule concert. I was so ticked off at myself. I was saying to myself..."I killed the little bugger!"

I just woke up and went to the Nano and he is doing is usual bobbin' goofy swim. They sleep in bizarre ways. Scared the bejezus out of me.

Kaybee...I used RO/DI to calibrated to zero...I'll get some isotonic pure saline solution to have another gauge of accuracy.

I am so pleased he is not dead.

[coachfraley]

Full tank shot????????

[Northernguy]

Great looking fish!Animated coloring.
Salt water tanks rock!
I wish I knew more about salt water.I still have tons to learn before I get started.

[labnjab]

They do sleep wierd, lol. We have a pair of false percs that jam between 2 rocks, the female on the bottom, and the male on top, and they stay that way almost all night. Sometimes they will be side by side between 2 rocks.

[The Wedge]

Well he's back down in that area so there are some red flags coming up...my NH3 reading is quite different than yesterday I can't tell if it is tan or fluorescent yellow. I looked at the charts on the computer because I lost mine and I really can't accurately distinguish where I am at...it could be anywhere from about 0 to .50 ppm ....not good. My Nitrites are zero along with my NO3 is at 15 ppm. I am going to the LFS and getting some more seawater to do an emergency water change. I might spend 16 bucks on some more biospira just to make sure. So I am hoping that I am just paranoid...Update...when I put the NH3 color on a white backgrond on the other charts and look at the color on the computer...it simply just looks closer to 0 than everything else. Just puzzled
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[coachfraley]

A water change wouldn't hurt. I would take your SW in and get it tested, to get a better check on your levels.

[lovleeko]

Great picture. It's beautiful. COngrats!!:19:

[Halelorf]

My clown did a similar thing when I switched it from my old 15 gallon to my new tank. It hung around the bottom near a rock and did a sort of shimmy dance on the bottom glass kicking up some sand. Was from breaking up it's old territory in the previous tank. I would just keep some extra saltwater ready at all times and test the parameters and do waterchanges as needed rather then dump a bunch more biospira.

[The Wedge]

Do you think a SG of 1.026 could cause this behavior. The seawater comes at this SG...I don't have much evaporation so it stays at this level with minimal top-off.