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I have had a strawberry basslet (which is a pseudochromis) and blood shrimp for years without a problem. Neither should you.

Never. I have never heard of doing this a part of regular maintenence. What is the benefit?

feed only what the fish will eat in 2 two minutes IMO, that is even too long. If you have sufficient flow in your tank and you are adding enough food to last two minutes most of that food is going to be swept into the rocks and fester. Give enough food for 30 seconds to a minute. That is...

Where in Tampa are you going? Marine Warehouse?? Rarely. I buy water from them but that is about it. I look over the bargain bin from time to time as well. Finz, aka Creative Oceans, is who I was talking about. Decent enough people but their prices are through the roof. Sitting on Dale...

Location can play a large role in price. The best LFS in my area is pretty far from me but has great price. A decent LFS a mile from me is in the heart of high rent district. Same livestock is 2 and 3x the price. Then you have the different varities of corals (as mentioned) and the current...

Your lighting is sufficient. If you calcium and alk are low do a 20% water change and follow it up with weekly 10% water changes. That will correct it almost immediately. As for maintaining, I use Bionic's 2 part additive on my 90. It maintains a fairly consistent calcium and alk levels. .

Go to Sports Authority or a bait & tackle shop and buy a sabiki line. The hooks that come on it are very tiny. Get a little raw shrimp or tuna, wrap the line around your finger and start fishing. Took me a few times to get the hang of it but once I did the damsel was out in 15 minutes. Kind...

You tank may be overstocked, I don't necessarily agree, but doing water changes will remove that waste. You indicated you used to do 10% every week. IMO, that should be enough to compensate for a slightly overstocked tank but I am sure several on here will have a difference of opinion. You are...

Acans are not normally "dirt dirt cheap." If you gave it to you as an acan and indeed it is an acan good for you. Google acanthestrea or acanthestrea lord.

Nuisance algae is caused by excess nutrients in your system. You already know your nitrates are high. The next step is to figure out why. The main culprit of excess nutrients is overfeeding and top off & water change water that is not RO/DI or RO/DI that is using membranes past their shelf...

Where is your LR from?

IMO $750 sounds high. My friend just purchased a 125 with MH/VHO lighting, protein skimmer, LR, coral and fish for $1000. Aquarium livestock and dry goods typically have a resale value of 1/3 of their retail value price.

If you polled all the members of SWF.com who have had a tank up and running for more than 2 years you would probably see some pretty diverse maintenance schedules and reef keeping philosophies. But at the same time there woulud also be a lot of general consistencies as well. The real answer...

Good or bad? I was in a hurry cleaning my tank otherwise I would have isolated it and kept it. But since I was in a hurry he became fertilizer for my backyard.

This little bug was hanging out in my overflow. When I irritated it it would raise these white spikes. I tossed it but anyone know if it was bad or good?

These are the claws/spikes I was referring to.

FYI, here is another picture of a whelk. This one's shell is very close to the one in your picture. However, shell doesn't mean much.

Look at the underbelly of the snail. Are there two spike type appendages on the outer, upper 2/3? Another identifying property of a whelk. They use these spike/claws to hold onto and break open the shells of their prey. And the snorkel/tube can be retracted so if the snail is inside its shell...

Looks like a whelk. In the second to last picture there appears to be a snorkel/tube coming out from under neath the shell. They are predatory snails that prey on other snails, etc. I had one particular welch that sat in my zoos. Not sure if he was eating them or not but the zoos started to...

Obviously not a 265 or 180 but I have a 125 gallon tank for sale. It has been up and running for 4 years. It has several fish, coral and inverts. Not sure if I want to sell the lighting and equipment with the tank but that is negotiable if you are interested. W/D, protein skimmer, MH...