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You shouldnt use lace rock in a salt water tank in the first place. Too big a risk that some bad metals are in it and can leech into the water. But it doesnt always happen, just to me its too big a risk to my critters and money. But to answer your question, yes, provided that there are not bad...

question along these lines, does xenia elongota pump like the other xenias or not?

Reef Fishes by Scott Michaels is a great buy too but vol one only covers a few families right now, Lions, anthias and morays mainly. Anxiously awaiting the next two.

porceline heheh typing one handed

those are poceline crabs. great little guys to have. They arent harmful to anything, they need no special care. They dont really contribute anything to the tank but are neat to watch.

I dont have a Ca test kit, but PH in both is 8.2 and stays steady. Last week I had Ca checked in the 55(12dKH) and it was 390. I havent had the other checked in awhile.

I broke down finally at the advice of a freind of mine and bought an alkinity test kit. What should it be in a reef tank? Here is what I came up with. 12dKH in my 55 reef and 17dKH in my aggressive reef(well FOWLR and a couple corals) The kit says 12dKH is good but I prefer to hear it from more...

A Fu Man chu would be great unfortunately they are the hardest lion to keep alive because many of them just wont adapt to eating in captivity. Try a zebra or fuzzy dwarf lion if you go that route. But since we are on the subject I though of a few others that could work very well. Look into leaf...

A hispidus, I have a pic of one in front of me that matches perfectly with yours. Hope you have a big tank since it gets to around 19 inches. Thats sweet that it eats aptasia, did you know it would do this before hand? I know puffers are very not reefsafe guess this might be why, but in this...

Not only seal but make sure there isnt a hole or something it can reach through to open the latch. maybe a heavy weight on the top. I have seen some octopus here on the Atlantic that would way outgrow a 140 so find out what kind it is. You wont be able to have fish either, they will become...

whats the primary shell color and the color of the claws. Where did you get your rock from? We have blue crabs here on the Atlantic which match your description thus far without going into details. If this is what you have then you might want to put it into its own tank and raise it and then...

It was pulsing good last night. Today I sat for several hours(instead of studying for a bio test) and watched it. The long bigger fronds were not pulsing much at all if any. The smaller fronds closer to the stalks would pulse more often although still without any regularity. It looks healthy as...

I havent heard of an effort to do this. From what I hear they breed relatively easily enough. In the wild these guys are pretty common though so I wouldnt think there would be a project to do this. Worth looking into though. My issue is besides grass shrimp I cant keep shrimp alive very long...

A dwarf lion, umm dottybacks(I just did a post on them), one of the smaller eels. Damsels. yeah you are kind of limited. Bigger tanks would allow for the more known aggressives such as the king of aggressive fish the Volitans Lion or other miscreants like undulated triggers or picasso triggers...

its questionable. By the way I have alot of rock in my 65 and I never see my snowflake except when its time to feed it and even then it just sticks its head out , takes the food and disappears until the next day. I have heard many horror stories about dottybacks after I posted on another board...

Thats just wrong. Cyanide will eventually kill a fish. It also can cause severe health problems in the divers that use it. Most fish caught today are net caught however there are still unscrupulous collectors in the Philipines and other less civilized ares who still use it. Most fish caught by...

Here is some info I was able to dig up on short notice out of Scott Michaels Reef fishes "While a coral reef ecosystem, as a whole, may be more stable than many other aquatic or terrestrial biomes, parameters such as light level, temeprature, salinity, water movement, water quality and substrate...

In Asia they eat those types of fish alot. The japanese even buy angels from the east coast of the US for that reason. I beleive some either on this board or another board i go to mentioned that when they were going diving in the Pacific their guide went [hr] fishing and got a blue tang and...

Somoen said to avoid major changes. You guys realize that reefs are not set in temp and that in some areas, (lagoons, reef walls for example) they can change wildly especially when the tide changes and starts pouring in. As for fish, lower temps are actually better because their metabolism goes...

Probably not if you keep it well fed. Snowflakes as a species are not fish eaters by nature but there is always that oddball that likes fish. I would be more concerned with the aggressive dottyback attacking the marin betta and the royal. The dottybacks dont like each other and the betta will...