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I have had a serpent starfish for almost 8-9months now. I read on the net that............ "This species ought to be fine, but keep in mind that many to most brittle/serpent stars actually perish because people expect them to just "find" food, something they can't do in an average reef tank. I...

I have had a serpent starfish for almost 8-9months now. I read on the net that............ "This species ought to be fine, but keep in mind that many to most brittle/serpent stars actually perish because people expect them to just "find" food, something they can't do in an average reef tank. I...

Sounds great Only prob I have is that none of my LFS have it for some reason. I would order it from this site, but they are out of stock. Would a lettuce nudi work? Any other sea slugs? Or is the dolla the only way to go? Thanks for help.

OK...the dola sea hare sounds good. Question: #1 would the coral bandeds (I have a mated pair, usually pretty mellow) bother it? #2 Once it eats all the hair algae, can it survive on algae like my other snails? #3 Is this one of those things that if it dies in my tank it is highly toxic?

Originally Posted by AquaKnight consider spending a day in Atlanta, and go the Georgia Aquarium. Probably the finest one there is. You will be blown away. Going to have to agree with that. I moved to Daytona Beach from Atlanta two years ago. Last time I went back I checked it out and WOW...

What kind of anemone is that?

I change my sock about twice a week and rotate between 3 or them. I usually hand wash then soak in very diluted bleach for a day and then let air-dry for a day. Anyways, it has been raining cats and dogs here in Florida and the sock just won't airdry...so I threw it in the dryer. It is now...

bump...noone with any tips on hair algae?

Ok, I now had 2 or 3 small pockets of hair algae turn into 7-8, what's the best way to get rid of this stuff? I have added 10 more blue-leg hermies and 4 scarlet leg and done a 15% per week for two weeks now.

Originally Posted by Flower I don't know much about monticap coral but you shouldn't have to hand feed the others. It really sounds like chemical warfare to me, that's why a water change helped a little. I think using activated carbon will help allot. Agreed I am one who is all about...

#1 I bought a 4-micron sock for the sump (was running sump with no sock for 3 weeks) #2 I toothbrushed what I could using the bucket technique (good call) #3 I rearranged the rock and powerheads for what should be way better top to bottom flow and got rid of my stacked up (dead flow) corner

any flow recommendations...my buddy says I need to get some from the bottom up flow...he says without a wave timer best to just put all the pumps on one side, just put the right maxijet horizontal in lower left corner angled up at 45 degrees...leave the left where it is and move korillia to the...

38 gallon reef 20 gallon sump, 14 months old, broken heater had tank at 86 for a week or two b4 i caught it...that was 3 months ago...very bad but rebounding quite well. Have a wee bit of hair algae from overfeeding the corals I think. BTW I know there are two bleached corals (frogspawn and...

Yes I changed @ 10 months...tank is actually 14 months old. Tank was like photo-contest good (for a beginner I think) and then we messed up. Had no idea that bulbs had to acclimate up slowly (4hrs per day 6, 8, then 10) anyway...the very same week we had a heater malfunction and our tank was...

im a noob...what is SG?