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How big should the shrooms be before you to cut one in half to make two? My largest (the red) is about 3 inches across. My blue, blueberry, and green striped are all about 1 1/2" across. Am I just impatient wanting to cut them... :rolleyes: should I just chill out and let them reproduce on...

I have my 2-65 watt PC acintics on from 11am-3pm and back on from 7pm-11pm. My 2-65watt 10,000k PC's are on from 1pm-9pm. This is on my 55 gallon tank. What kind of corals would you all recommend? Remember, I'm a beginner. :confused: So far I have a few mushrooms, a frag of clove xenia, and...

if you get the canadian one, make sure that you don't get one that's French Canadian. It will only live if you speak French to it, but you have to speak under the water line or you it will get "Dry-ear Syndrome" (which I hear is very hard to treat). If you don't speak French, then it will...

Is there any calcium additive that I can just mix with water and add directly to my tank without having to have a doser or other slow dripping method? I recently got a tuxedo urchin that likes my corraline a bit too much and I hear calcium can help the corraline to grow faster (as well as be...

I've heard from a few people in different threads that don't do water changes. Either they never do them or they do them very rarely, yet all their fishies, etc. are doing great. Please tell us your secrets.... :D are you dosing with chemicals... do you just top off the water weekly (and...

When you get a new fish from your lfs how do you get it from the lfs baggie into the tank without a net? :confused: I know you're not supposed to add the lfs water to your tank. Please explain what you do for all of us who are still endangering our fishies by using a net on them. Thanks!

So far we have 1. produces poisonous chemicals 2. is bad tasting My guesses for the last 2 defenses that corals have are: • they can retract from predators and • they can mimic another species that is poisonous and/or bad tasting am I anywhere close?

Anyone have one of these they'd like to part with? Thanks!

bump :) please, any suggestions, anyone? I plan on starting this project tonight after work and any advice would be helpful (besides what I've already learned from a search on "cooling fans") Thanks!

Ok. I plan to get either 2 radio shack fans or 2 computer fans tonight and wire them to a 12v converter so I can just plug them into my powerstrip. Should I be looking for fans with a cfm over a certain amount? How about noise level, should I look for fans with a certain decibal rating...

We went away over the 4th and had a friend come feed the fishies. We usually keep the tank at 80º, and have found that we need to keep the air on in the house to keep the tank from over heating so we left our air conditioner on (so that it would turn on if the air temp got below 76º)...

Well, all my shrimp have molted at least once, as well as my emerald crabs. Everyone has been eating and everythings been doing good...until Pepe went missing. Pepe is/was the skunk cleaner shrimp. I figured he molted and was just hiding for a bit (although it could have been a peppermint...

I can't really see that he would get caught on my filter...I only have the one filter for the Penguin 330 Bio-Wheel filter and none of him was stuck to that. Anyway, I don't think the Penguin has too much suction to have him get caught on it and break apart because I've seen snails and hermits...

The styrofoam is a better idea than the rubbermaid, because the styrofoam will control the temperature much better. In rubbermaid, the temp of the FedX truck can get really hot and it will definitely cook everything on your live rock. Styrofoam doesn't weigh much, and you can get a styrofoam...

Friday I got my shipment of cleaner crew items from SWF. At that point, I only had 2 clown percs in the tank. I took the time to acclimate everyone correctly and everything seemed to go well. My lettuce nudi was cruising around the LR and glass for 2 days, then stayed in 1 spot on the glass...

How much LR are you talking about?

I just added 4 peppermint shrimp and 1 cleaner shrimp to my 55gal. this Friday. This morning I noticed that someone molted. Should I remove the molted exoskeleton from the tank or just let it disintigrate? Also, so far, I am not dosing my tank with anything...will the shrimp be able to form a...

We have this installed in the lid of our canopy on our 55 gal tank. The instructions say to attach the end cap wires to the canopy lid with those little white plastic clamps leaving enought slack so the canopy can open and close without putting tension on the bulbs. Maybe it's our canopy size...

My tanks been set up now for 3 weeks with LR and LS. Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate are all at 0. There are blue legged hermits and diatoms on the LS bed right now, but the bed isn't as deep as I'd like it to be. Can I add more live sand by cup fulls in certain places where it is low? Do I need...

I have them too and after checking these boards and other websites I've figured they are tiny serpent starfish. So far I have 2 whitish ones and one red/blue banded one.