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What other food should I feed my fish. The brine shrimp meal is enriched with spirulina.

I only plan to have mushrooms, polyps and leathers in my tank. Right now, other than the coral, I only have 2 ocellaris clowns and a cleaner shrimp. I alternate adding calcium mixed with top off water and alkalinity buffer every 2-3 days. Everyday, I add a reef solution (containing several...

Two weeks ago I added a sun polyp and a bright green mushromm to my tank. Both appear to be doing well. Far better than the finger leather I added in early December. It is living but it isn't nearly the size it was in the lfs show tank. I found a pink button polyp and an aqua cultured...

About a week and a half ago, I added a finger leather to my tank. This is my second coral. For some reason it doesn't remain extended very much. Usually early in the morning it is extended (although not like it was in the showtank of the lfs) but only stays that way for about 10-15 minutes...

Thanks for the responses. I'll probably get the ricordea and the open brain. :)

Hi, I currently only have 1 leather polyp, 2 clowns, 1 cleaner shrimp and a number of hermits and snails. I would like to add another coral next week. Possibly ricordea or colt coral. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good hardy species? Could I get away with adding 2 at once?

They have been together since late July. As far as size, there isn't a huge difference in size but you can see the difference. Thanks.

Yes, my clowns are a mated pair. Thanks for the response.

When the seizures occur the male clown is usually around. I was wondering if it was a defense mechanism. The male doesn't have the seizures at all. Currently, my tank has the following: LR & LS 1 cleaner shrimp 2 clowns 1 leather poly I noticed this behavior a week after adding the polyp...

I have an ocellarus clown that appears to be having quick seizures lately. This is the larger of the pair, so I think it's the female. This behavior only lasts for a couple of seconds but it's creepy. What do you all think is wrong? :confused:

That looks exactly what is on my glass. Thanks.

Yes, I added cortez cerith snails to my tank last Friday. So far, nothing is touching them. Do margarita snails lay eggs too? I added them along with the cerith's. BTW, those cerith snails really do a good job cleaning my glass and sandbed. I'm impressed. They put my astreas to shame!

When I came home from work today, I noticed these thin, white chainlooking lines on my glass in three spots. I thought it was something stuck to the glass but after a while, the ends of these "chains" began to wave freely in the water, although still attached to the main "chain". I saw this...

Okay, today 2 other snails reappeared. :) One peaked out of its shell for a while but never moved from that spot. When a pesty little hermit crab came near, he went in his shell and hasn't come out since. I still think that the stationary snail under the LR is dead. I bought 7 margarita...

I cycled my tank with pre-cured live rock only and got NH3 readings off the chart. During my nitrite spike, the tank got as high as 5 ppm and lasted for about 4 days at that level. So, believe me, there is definitely enough die off to cycle the tank. BTW, the pre-cured live rock appeared to...