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I have several small flat white invertebrates propagating in my refugium. I have not added anything new in over 6 months so I am not sure where they came from. I cannot take a picture due to the extremely small size of these animals. They have what looks like a forked tail and crawl on the...

I have two poyps on a rock I purchased at LFS that will not open. The other 12 polyps are a different variety and are open. Is there a way to remove these two onto another rock? Are they dead? How do I feed them? How come I don't see any copepods in my refugium?

I have had to take yet another infested LR out of my tank and kill it and then start curing it. I did one about a month ago. The darn things just keep popping up. The ones I squirt with Joe's Juice go away but when the little ones appear more densely than 20, I take the rock out and start...

Thank you for posting. I had two small ones before that starved but I thought it was because it was a new tank. From your post I will try to feed the sinking pellets and see.

I purchased a gold head sleeper goby and put it in my Quarantine Tank. I have another 2 fish in there, a chromis (permanent resident) and a six line wrasse. I know sleeper gobies sift the sand but there is no sand in my QT. I have not seen the fish eat either flakes or shrimp (mysis or...

This animal was shooting wisps of something into the water. It moves slow like a snail. The wisps are in the top circle. The animal is in the bottom circle.

The old guy at Pet Boutique is a jerk. There is one younger guy that is OK. I just found another place at Coit and Beltline, "Just for Pets". At least these guys are friendly.

It turned out that the neon was not malformed but merely stressed to the max. That is probably why it turned up with ich. No that all my fish are coming out of hypo, the neon's fins are fine.

Well, after I figured out the coral was alive I put it in a floating breeder tank and it died due to lack of flow. The one macro turned out to have leaves like a holly bush, very tough and the other never grew so I took them both out.

Woohoo! Finally got my prefilter box in the mail and spent today plumbing for it. I had to take the coupling apart for the return to get the feed pipe in and then I forgot about it until I turned the switch on and water sprayed the underside of my aquarium. I had to laugh because it was...

Ironhead, If you split the feed so one feeds the sump and the other feeds the refugium then the U-tube will balance them, provided of course that it is full of water. You can see the U-tube behind the red handle of the valve.

While waiting for my prefilter box, I decided to plumb the return. After doing that I thought I could go ahead and plumb the feed to the sump. After I got done I realized that OOPS, I had plumbed the feed out of 1/2" pipe. Way too small for the feed. I will wait for the prefilter and plumb...

I am fairly excited about this project. I have been thinking about it ever since I started looking at refugiums. My idea was to take two small 5.5 gallon aquariums (end-to-end) and put a U-tube between them. I have a 30 gallon long display tank and built my own stand so there is only 9" width...

I found a dead snail in my back filter on my QT. I am running it without filter pads for circulation only and had some small rock fragments in it. Man, did that stink. I knew I was missing a snail but had no idea to look there. I was getting fragments to glue mushrooms onto them. I am glad...

I have one large and one small cleaner shrimp. My fish are small and only go to the small shrimp.