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why wont it cost u a penny if its cause your gonna collect it from the beach (not a good idea) but if you can get it free from some other way thats good

oh you got lucky on the snails then those are whelks in that pic and they are bad lil dudes they eat other snails the amphipods eat excess food and waste as well as provide a live food source for some fish and inverts you probably didnt kill them all (hopefully) they reproduce pretty well in...

southdown is a playsand that you can buy at places like home depot for real cheap and its the same as the higher priced stuff found at your lfs like caribsea its aragonite based and silica free

welll thats a bummer those are good guys also do those lil snails look like this http://www.billsext.com/Whelk.jpg

probably amphipods not mysis or mantis

its the best way to go

im posting this because sandman12 says it is legal and i think its illegel to collect stuff from the ocean like fish and conchs and hermits but not stuff like rocks etc this is definitely illegeal any thoughts also this is in florida

paying 180 dollars for a 180 lbs of caribsea sand no southdown in florida and worst than that my lfs getting a new owner and this guy likes to carry hard to keep fish like moorish idols potters angels orange bluelined tamarin wrasse cleaner wrasse tons of mandarins:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

blackcap basslet for sale hes around 3" to 3 1/2" beautiful color he eats very well never ever been sick for pickup only tampa area paid 45 asking 30 email me qwiksilver360@aol.com

if your talking about those yellow sponges those things are tough i had one on a piece of rock stay out of water for 24 hours and didnt die it lived for around 1and1/2 years before my flame angel ate it im not sure what the coral your talking about but if its one of those hard corals like a cup...

take the rock out and place it in a solution of around 1.040sg for around 30-60 secondsand watch all the critters come flying out pick out the ones you want toss the rest pick off the stuff you want beforehand like crabs and snails

do a hypersaline solution to flush out that shrimp so you can figure out what kind it is mantis or pistol you'll probably find some other goodies like more cirolanid ispods or fireworms dont do a freshwater dip like mentioned above you'll kill all your good bacteria

it will help if you list tank parameters like ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,ph salinity,etc lighting how long tank has been up for

the only thing i can think of that looks like a spider is an arrow crab just a guess

looks like a paddle wrasse

sounds like it when i had an outbreak with cyano it would stay stringy and in a small area with the lights out then when the first set of lights came on (10,000k) it would start to get more flat (not as stringy) then when the actinics came on it would start to spread out then when the lights...

anykind of live rock with a good amount of coraline would be good to seed your base their really isnt one that is best its more a personal preference the more live you buy the better but over time it will all become live

Originally posted by BlueDolphi Qwik.... What do you store all that water in? Thanks by the way. the lfs here has five gallon jugs with caps that they rent or you can buy them for a good price

thats just wrong

nope they either break up or dissolve ive never removed them