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Snails definitely. When he says turbos there are lots of different kinds. For general eating get a couple astrea snails. Sometimes called turbos. For larger stringy substantial algae, ie hair algae, get mexican turbo snails. I woudln't buy more than 2 of them for your tank. They can eat...

He's dead. I can't keep those damn shrimp alive personally. I've gone through alot of them. I keep harder corals alive than a peppermint shrimp.....

Can you get another pic or make this one brighter? Loud clicking sounds are either mantis shrimp or pistol shrimp. Sounds like you may have a pistol shrimp as the evidence of digging suggests. The first is a known shrimp/snail/hermit/fish killer and needs to be removed. The second is a also...

Your salinity level is fine. I wouldn't adjust it drastically. If you want to occasionally take out a cup of water and add a new cup of lower salinity water that would be the best way of lowering it. It will also tend to come down on its own over a long time. I know mine have. Its better to...

ding ding ding, WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR HIM JOHNNY :) 50 MILLION DOLLARS :) Sorry. Im a jerk. Its diatoms/cyano. I would try wiping it off the glass and as far as the rock goes get some critters in that tank to start cleaning. When in doubt always do a water change :) Keep your nitrates and...

I'm aware of the recent message board issues. I guess last week the server died or something. Here's my issue. Months ago i noticed that in my user cp i couldn't "show threads from" the past 2 days, 5 days, etc. etc. It would always give me a search of no items found, even if i did the last...

Nice.... Good luck rigging that :) You'll get minimal shadow from the brace. Good thing its clear. So long as you don't get water on the top of the brace you should have minimal problems with salt creep as well, but im not sure. The thing the brace is truly going to effect is the penetration...

Sure. I have a kenya tree coral that would go nice in that tank. It's a very low light soft coral. I also have some caulastrea, candy cane, that i could give, and of course the ever present xenia weed....Oh yeah purple shrooms too...

In sprungs book looks like a Phyllidia or warty sea slug. Unfortunately unless you get an exorbitant amount of sponges going in your tank he's going to die. Book says some of them are highly toxic but there's no way of telling that unless you have dead fish :) Very cool though. See if you...

Is it a seasoned piece, ie big? or small? I've seen corals gain color as they grow bigger. Its most likely the monti isn't getting enough light to maintain its brilliance. From what i understand they shift to brown when they don't get enough light because it's easier to produce.....

Very nice. Do you plan on keeping any of the "forbidden" corals in there? I namely mean goniopora, alveopora, and elegance.... From what i hear they are lagoonal species. I'll bet money you have success with them in there once its going.... Edit: and what would a lagoon be without a...

Very nice. Do you plan on keeping any of the "forbidden" corals in there? I namely mean goniopora, alveopora, and elegance.... From what i hear they are lagoonal species. I'll bet money you have success with them in there once its going.... Edit: and what would a lagoon be without a...

harlequin 20L's are 30" 75's are 48" Here's a good way to gauge how big a fish will get. Fold a piece of 8x11 normal printer paper in half and hold it up to your tank. Now imagine something that massive moving around in said tank one day :) Now imagine something bigger than that which most...

Although i'd have to say its more cynaria esk.....

Or Meat Coral. Which is odd but hey i didn't name it.....

Good point. If you can swing it go 2 400's or 2 250's and dual 96 pcs' would work. You're going to have shadows with one halide. If you don't mind that.....

Yes. While i loved the movie it wasn't very accurate. I could care less but it sparked a large increase in saltfish sales to people who only bought the tank for their kids. Obviously you can't successfully keep a salt tank for those reasons. So nemoesque just refers to the bad stuff that...

Dude come take shots of my tanks when you come to Raleigh :) I'm dying to get status shots of my tanks. I haven't had some since MAY. The snail hiker is a stomatella snail. Great little nocturnal snail. Look for them when the lights are out. I wish i had hade more, i like their shell...

Have you seen the movie?

Keeping a fish successfully cannot be measured in a few weeks or months but years. Typical fish lives 3+ years and the ones we are talking about i would say 6+ and even 10+. Would you buy a dog or cat in the hopes of only being able to keep it alive for a year or two? That powder blue will...