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    Power Compact Lighting

    Holey Cow!!! I was cooking mussels this evening for dinner. I took a few piece of raw mussel and my anemone literally inhaled it! My chocolate Chip Star ate the other piece!!!! Pretty neat to watch. Thanks for the advice!:joy:
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    Feathr Duster question

    I have a lovely feather duster in my tank and it appears to have "branches" geowing off the tube. I see this small 3 pronged "branch" and a couple small "nodes". Is this a good thing?:confused:
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    Power Compact Lighting

    What, exactly, does one feed an anemone?
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    Lookin for LFS in ME, MA, or NH

    AquaDreams in Feeding Hills Mass is really great. The guys who run it really know their stuff.
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    my whole tank wiped out

    We had a similar experience. Everything was going great and we got up one morning to a cloudy tank and everyone gasping. We took everyone out of the tank and put them in a 5 gal. pail (it was all we had) and did 100% water change and put in some live rock. Took a water sample to the aquarium...
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    flame scallop need help

    I had a gorgeous flame scallop. I put it in my tank in the afternoon and by the next morning, empty shell. I think my crab ate it...
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    Power Compact Lighting

    We have 1 anenome and live rock right now. Cleaner clams...some invertebrates. We bought 2 new bulbs for the existing cover..both 40 watt, 1 luner, 1 full spectrum. Eventually, we'd like to have more coral and more anemones but we also want a nice selection of fish. Will this lighting get us...
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    Power Compact Lighting

    I scoped out a new aquarium store today and the owner tells me that I need different lighting if I want to have coral and anenomes. Being new at this, I obviously need to do the research. I have a 75 gal tank and and this guy suggested the Power Compact 48" with 2 blue lights and 2 clear...
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    Serpent Starfish

    My serpent star died after 2 days of looking strange. I brought water samples to 3 well know salt water stores and they told me that everything they tested was fine. (I'm color blind and can't read the dang test strips). I'ts tough to rely on someone else to interprit the readings but I just...
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    any one here live in MAssachusetts

    I live in Ct and I've ordered from here several times and had great luck. Someone mentioned a less expensive resource? Care to share?
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    Serpent Starfish

    We've tested the water and all of our levels are in the "acceptable" range. The Serpent Star is about 3 weeks old. Everything else in the tanks is doing great. He seems to be losing "sections" of his tenticles. I have a few damsels, a baby Hippo Tang, a tomato clown in the tanks as well as a...
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    Any seahorse experts out there?

    Can I put seahorses in an established tank that has Damsels, Hippo and Naso Tang and invertebrates? Anyone have a good source for seahorses?
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    Serpent Starfish

    I have a serpent starfish that I introduced to my tank about 3 weeks ago. He's (she???) has been doing great but this morning, I noticed that this starfish has lost everone of it's tips off it's arms. Is this a stress issue? or a reproduction issue?:help:
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