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I recently pusrchashed a red & yellow sun polyp rock. The store was very vague about the feeding. Can anyone offer some advice to help me make sure they thrive in my tank? Should I spot feed them? If so, how often and what? I was told that they open mostly at night, so I assume they would prefer...

whats the best way to get rid of green bubble algae on a sun polyp rock? i know how to get it off of l/r, but i'm not sure of the cure for a rock with polyps. i was thinking about removing the polyp rock in a container of tank water, but the the bubbles are very small, and how could i "rinse"...

Yes Thomas, it was swimming in my filter. I'm trying to decide what i should do with it-dump it or keep it isolated and see what happens? The little creature appears to some type of shrimp, but is so small i can't tell for certain( no maginifing glass and its approx. 3/8" long).

I purchased a hairy 'shroom rock yesterday and found what appears to be a baby shrimp of some kind. I'm not sure if it was a hitchhiker or from my two cleaner shrimp. Its very tiny-to small to photogragh-clear in color with what looks like maybe a thin red stripe down its back, and its tail has...

is it hard.. and encrusting like... corlaine does come in green ...hmm it doesn't seem to be coraline....more like an algae of some type. It started about 2 weeks ago and then seemed like it was going away. Then almost overnight it was covering almost all my LR. It isn't affecting my red lava...

My tank has been running for about 3 months, and in the last couple of weeks my LR has started turng green. The green(Algae?) isn't slimy and doesnt scrub off with a tooth brush. I do 10% water changes weekly with tap water, use a Skilter Pro 250 filter/skimmer and have the standard light...

I just took a close look skirrby, and they are spiral shaped. So what are you thinking they are?

I was looking around inside my tank today and noticed some hard white specs on the glass. When i looked around longer i saw alot of these spots on my rocks as well. Does anybody have ideas about what they might be? The best description i can give is... small white spots, of varying sizes and...

Thanks for the info, i feel much better about the situation.

I purchased an Atlantic anemone this weekend and have noticed an odd behavior the last couple of mornings? When I get up in the morning, before the tank lights come on, the anemone appears to be shrunken or deflated...about the diameter of a quarter. Once the lights come on it returns to its...

I have 2 skunk cleaners that having been molting about every other week, and a peppermint shrimp that molts once a month. I was told to leave the shells in the tank....free calcium for the fish:D

thnx squid, thats makes very good sense. i wish the guy at the store would have explained it like that

In this case I don't think it was about money. He said it would take longer to reach maturity in my 37g tank than in his 150g. He also said that although it would survive in my tank, it would not be very happy, due to small living quarters. I was just wondering why, if so, it would take longer...

I forgot to mention that any LR that has a sulfur smell in it is not cured, or not fully cured. The "sniff test" is a good way to do a quick check of the rock at a LFS, if their rock might be questionable. Many of the sources I researched suggested curing any rock you purchase before putting it...

Will the size of your tank effect the growth rate of its inhabitants? The LFS that i go to hints that it will. I'm just wondering because i have baught smaller fish hoping to see them grow and mature, but not expecting it to take years, as my LFS has hinted it may take. I have a 37gal tank that...

Do Not let your children go to the LFS with you to buy more food...may be more costly than expected...

I can't offer much help other than my LFS said a sand sifting star wouldn't do well in crushed coral. Said it was to coarse for 'em, GL.

I've had one in my tank for about 1.5 months and i rarely see her. She sneaks out at feeding time, and then quickly hides behind the rocks until the next feeding. I added an Atlantic anemone today, and she seems very curious about it...but hides as soon as any thing else in the tank comes...

I recently got some LR that wasn't fully cured. What i did was cleaned it in the sink with fresh SW, mixed at a salinity of 1.030. The higher salinity is supposed to drive out hitchhikers. Then i put it in a 5gal buttock of SW with a heater set at 80, did 50%water changes daily, and checked the...

I just purchased an Atlantic anemone today. As soon as i put it in the tank my skunk cleaner shrimp was all over the anemone. Is death for the shrimp just a matter of time? It looked like the anemone stung the shrimp once, but it managed to get away, but hasn't learned to keep its distance yet...