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Thanks for the description from your book. BTW - what book do you have for the corals and do you like it? I need to get a book on corals (this was the first one I had purchased) and there are so many available, I'd like to get a good one that I can use for years.

Hi Beth, I used to have a QT years ago. But I haven't added any new fish to that tank in probably 3 years (had a blue velvet damsel in there for over 6 years that was so mean it bullied everyone to death that I put in with the exception of Scat . The damsel died about 6 months ago, so I felt...

Thanks. I looked up elliptical star coral on the internet (which led me to a nice site listing Florida area corals) and I think the closest pic to my coral might be the Blushing Star Coral. http://www.floridamarine.org/gallery...ls.asp?id=3626 what do you think? I also looked up the clove...

last one....

pic with it out of the tank. The flowers have retracted somewhat, but you can see the overall structure...

"You say when they retract..the surface is hard?Do you mean rock hard..or is it kind of rubbery..but firm?" Rock hard..... like "cut your feet if you step on it in the ocean" hard. I'll take it out of the tank at lunch and see if I can get a better pic.

It'd be really helpful if the pics were decent, huh? I bought a rock covered with them. It has probably 100 little flowery guys that come out of individual openings on the rock. They are brown with white tips. Each little "flower" has probably 6-12 individual "arms" that come out and sway...

final one (after taking about 20 shots) {now I'm even MORE impressed with some of the awesome pics I've seen other people take and attach on this site -- this is harder than it looks!}

another pic with top of tank open

I purchased this coral from my LFS. They don't have a great variety, but this one looked better than the rest. It is doing well -- had quite a few bare spots when I got it, and over the course of about 3 weeks is filling in nicely. They didn't know what it was and I can't seem to find a...

Update on the Naso Tang. He's dead. I did thoroughly check him and no ich that I can see. :confused: Thanks for the feedback though, Stacy. Have a good weekend.

I just received a Naso Tang (and a few other fish) from SWF yesterday. I placed the Naso and a Pajama Cardinal in my 55 gal tank along with another peaceful fish that has been in the tank for over 6 years (after proper acclimation). There is ample live rock for the Naso to hide behind. The...

Thanks! I appreciate your time. I will do another 1/4 water change (or should I do more?) tonight and put the carbon filters back in. I will let you know how that goes. Since we are not sure if the hydrometer is accurate, should I keep the hyposalinity for longer than 23 days to be safe? Or...

Thank you, Terry, for getting back to me. Here are the specs for my tank as of this morning: Temp is 80F. pH is 8.2 Ammonia level is 0 I used Aquarium Evolution Seabuffer pH & Alkalinity Booster to get the pH up. I am using the plastic swing arm hydrometer by Coralife. That's all our petstore...

I am trying to find a good place to purchase new books and supplies for my saltwater tank. I am specifically looking for a hydrometer (or something better to use for reading Specific Gravity). And after reading all of the great info here at this site, I really want to find some more books to...

My fish had ick. I have brought the salinity down to 1.009. I did have to adjust my pH. All fish are doing ok except for 2. My Blue Velvet Damsel is turning white. It doesn't appear to be anything on him, it looks more like his color is fading. Is this normal? My clown fish is swimming...

Hi David, (After you get the ick out of your tank in a month) here is what I did to cycle my tank and it worked good for me. I was very cautious, so there may be faster ways, but this is what I did..... I bought hardy fish (the cheaper ones since some are probably going to die)... I picked 2...

Hi David, I have almost lowered the salinity to 1.009 and the fish are still living (I'll have it finished tonight). I dipped the worst ones in freshwater yesterday to relieve them of their ick temporarily. I had read a posting that described the fresh dip as a way to make the ick 'explode'...

I posted a message to the message board on ick yesterday morning. I was panicked. My fish were all covered in ick and I didn't know what to do. Since I didn't hear back from anyone, I'm not sure if I posted the message correctly. I lost my regal tang and one of my clownfish. I spent about 3...

I have read through all of the advice on the ick subject and I still have a few questions. I recently added several new fish to my 45 gallon tank. (I don't have an observation tank -- I know, stupid me). In about 3 weeks, my new powder blue tang had the ick showing up on him/her. I have a tank...