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I wish I had some. Great little snails with an awesome defense mechanism (like a lizard losing its tail). They are also one of the few saltwater snails that can reproduce successfully in a tank.

I think I see your problem: in the second and third picture in your first post, it seems you have a devlied egg half sitting right in the front in the tank on the sand. Deviled eggs added to a tank can slowly kill the fish. A common mistake, but easy to correct.

Yeah: if you do use em, they really need to TRULY be a wet/dry (i.e. water rushes over them, but doesn't submerge most of them), and not just sitting in water in a chamber of the sump. There is no hard and fast rule on how much LR you need, really. The amount of surface area needed for...

Course you can siphon off the top layer: just don't stick the siphon INTO the sand: float above the surface sucking up what will come up that way.

Battery operated pumps do not necessarily cause bubbles anymore than regular pumps do: depends on the kind. And in a power outage, if given the choice between bubbles in the water from a cheap battery powered pump and non-oxygenated water, bubbles are more than worth it. The first thing that...

If your RO is giving you 0 TDS already, DI might not help all that much. DI is necessary/unnecessary depending on your source water quality. And water is not the only possible source of nutrients: could be the food you are using, or could be something dying in the tank that you can't see...

Sorry for your loss. But it sounds like it was just old age unless there were any obvious signs of disease, and there is nothing you could have done about that. I was always counseled to get more attached to the tank as a whole living system than to any one animal in it. Aside from some fish...

Originally Posted by 1journeyman Apos, you're missing the point. I'm not a fan of Hagee. I didn't say you were. I said that "theology" is not an out from anything, and was pointless to bring up. Hagee treats Jews as a race, and a race which he speaks about having a particular sort of history...

The reality is we can either have a true competitive bidding process, in which case we have to accept that American companies will not always win, or affirmative action for American companies, in which case we may not always get the best deal. Either way can work, and both have upsides and...

The importance of grammar is clarity. No one can type every keystroke perfectly, or catch every error. But striving to use coherent grammar and intelligible spelling is about respecting other people who you are trying to communicate with: being considerate. I'm not a grammar nazi, and this...

Originally Posted by 1journeyman Pause... Let's keep things in context. I made it very clear I didn't know his comments. I was simply stating, from what I had seen, his comments were theological and not "racist". Theological comments can certainly be hateful; I'm not arguing that. I don't see...

Ideally everyone would ge one on one teaching. Unfortunately, that's a luxury most can't afford and our society can't generally provide. I'm in favor of a diversity of approaches and the liberty of folks to choose amongst them: when it comes to education, there probably isn't one "right"...

Originally Posted by MiaHeatLvr Who are you to judge me or anybody making comments here on levels of your perceived sincerity? I read your post. It sounded canned, and it's over a truly laughable issue. So I said so. I love how all the far left websites including MSNBC, and CNN try to make...

Originally Posted by ScubaDoo Obama wore it and then removed it. Did the folks at Fox wear one and then remove it? That would make your analogy accurate if they did. Actually, yes, I'm pretty sure everyone at Fox has at one point or another, worn a flag pin, and then (gasp!) didn't wear one...

Originally Posted by ScubaDoo I can assure you many who post on these threads are sincere and care for their country...on both sides of the spectrum. I'm sure that's true in general. Not here though. What proof do you have this individual is not sincere regarding his/her position? I even...

Originally Posted by MiaHeatLvr And more strongly condemn and distance himself from Louis Farrakahn and the words of his radical pastor. I would like the guy better, even though I am more of a conservative. I wish I could believe you were in the least bit sincere... I love how all the folks on...

Originally Posted by 1journeyman Hateful? Quite possibly. Bigoted? maybe. As I said, however, the jewish, islamic and gay remarks are issues of theology; not racism as Rylan tried to imply. Merely slapping a "religion" sticker on comments doesn't magically make them safe or beyond criticism...

You can keep them in the tank, if only you don't mind whether they are alive or dead. :)

No idea on the ID, but scallops do not do well in captivity. Almost certainly you will need to spot feed it fine micron phyto at least once a day. The real problem with these animals is they need an exact particle size to filter feed, and it's not always clear what that is per animal (it might...

Are they really swimming, or just waving around in place? If the latter, then you're probably seeing the tentacles of a spaghetti worm.