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Oh wait I forgot to ask how long is your tank from side to side? Mine is 30 inches across, so the main reason I have 2 is so I can get an even amount of light from one side to the other. So if your tank is the traditional style I would recommend 2 for the best spread of light but if your tank is...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x Ok, I am only getting 3 or 4 corals to start, and probably will stay that way for a while, could I just use one light for now? Yeah you will do fine with just 1... when/if you want more light sensitive corals, just add as second light and you should be...

So I got this orange digitata that has been in my tank for a few months and seems to be doing really well, but the other day I noticed that the back of it (where I've had it lean against some rock for stability) is completely bleached out. I'm guessing this is because the light cannot reach...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x Ok, I have decided once my tank is cycled, I want to get a stalk of hammer coral, a 5 pack of green ricordea, and 2 clownfish. Would this be to much for my tank, or would it be all ok? I'm still up in the air about the lighting, I'm really leaning towards...

Quote: Originally Posted by xandrew245x The ecoxotic lights are definatly in my price range, only problem is, there is a lot of different ones, which one should i get, or does it not matter all that much? You will want the combo light... the white & blue one. The white diodes will sustain the...

I was interested in those LEDs in the beginning as well but was advised by people on this site that they are not very good actually. For your 29 gallon tank I highly recommend you take a look at Ecoexotic's Panorama LED moduels. I have 2 on my 40 gallon tank and all my corals are doing great...

I've seen this star in several different stores in my area... some stores say they are linkias and others say they are formorias. Either way they are reef safe. Good luck though, I purchased one as my first star when my tank was 5 months old and it died in 4 days :*( But I tried again when my...

Good luck man! Keeping my fingers crossed for ya!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Limpid LOL, I was leaving your name out to save you. Now they know who you are. Oh no! The shame! The scandal! Now where ever I go children will point at me and say there goes that mushroom guy.

Well said! Although just to clear things up... when I bought the mushroom in question, I didn't think that additional research was necessary since I thought I knew all there was about mushrooms... it just turned out that this particular mushroom has completely different needs than other...

Good lord man please take them back!!! Adding the fish to the tank before the cycle was complete is bad enough, but (unless I'm reading this wrong) 8 fish going into the tank at the same time will create a HUGE ammonia spike that will surely kill them all. At most you should be adding 1 or two...

Fordman1282 it sounds like you're jumping into this hobby blindly and as you said, without patience. This hobby is literally all about patience and without it, you will have a very hard time and probably lose a lot of money in the process. As others have said, its probably best if you took the...

Hey all! Hope the new year is starting out good for ya! So over the holiday weekend I stop into a random LFS and saw a really beautiful neon orange Yuma mushroom with a pricetag of only $25. Normally these guys at other stores are priced around $85-$150 so I happily bought the little guy...

Eh sorry for the late reply, haven't been online for much of the holiday weekend. Anywho I made this post at work and by the time I got home the starfish was already dead so I suppose it starved since Ive never actually seen it eat anything I tried to target feed it with. As for the other...

Hey all, So yesterday I noticed one of my starfish was acting strange. In the morning I noticed as it was climbing up a wall it had one of its arms totally flopped over its back and it looked kind of knotted or twisted. When I came home from work that evening, I noticed that it was looking like...

One of my first corals was a small colony of GPS. I put it on top of a rock I thought it looked good on and after about 3 weeks it naturally attached itself to the rock and began spreading.

I'm a huge fan of arrow crabs. They look like creatures from outer space, always in sight, and are very animated. They love wandering the tank picking at rocks and the sand. Whenever company comes over the arrow crab is usually the first thing people notice.

I recently got a Royal Gramma for my 40 gallon (which also has a Firefish in it) and so far I'm not having any issues. I'd say go for it, Royal Grammas are beautiful fish IMO.

Oh and BTW I think being puffed up is a good thing... its being shriveled up and not opening is what I'd worry about.

I'm not sure about your coral specifically since I don't own one, but some of my corals do this as well from time to time. I think its just a normal part of their digestive process. Either that or maybe its trying to go to war with another coral if you put it really close to one?