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i agree... very good star to have in a reef. will eat left over food or whatever else falls to the bottom. just make sure to have a quite a bit of rock work for them to hide in

Originally Posted by Thomas712 . I would also suggest feeding it two or three times per week for the presant time, meaty foods, but not brine shrimp. Pay attention to the tenticals and see if they grab the food. Unhealthy tenticals might not be as sticky. Thomas why shouldn't you feed the bta...

Everyone... I just bought a pair of clowns from my LFS and when i got him home i realized one of the clowns left gills were all red. It looks like something took a bite out of the gills. I talked to the LFS and they said all sales were final blah blah blah. but they assured me it wasn't a...

wow! you have improved this site greatly! looks amazing

i cant seem to find it in this thread, but whats the web address for your webcams again?

I have a 6-bulb TEK t-5 set up on my 55 gallon and when i bought it just bought the bulbs from the site i got it from, but now its time to replace them and have a few questions. 1). what is the best combination of bulbs for a reef tank? i have 2 atinics which come on first, then the other 4 come...

I have had my 55 gallon set up for about 8 months now and all of a sudden i am starting to get red algae on some of my rocks. It can be rubbed off, but what is it and is it bad? also...would this have any effect on my xenia? it has been looking pretty bad the last few days.

this oil debate is mute... the people who are thinking bush or whoever is getting rich off this war are uninformed. You think because the price of gas has gone up $2 in the last 5 years there must be something going on. if you look at gas prices in the 70's and increase them by inflation for the...

also, you may want to consider running something like phos-lock to remove anything that might be generated from food. Or you can always use some sort of macro-algae to eat up the excess nutrients that the hair algae is using to grow. in my 55 i had algae EVERYWHERE... i first added crabs and...

Originally Posted by bpaul1201 from what i've seen i'd say that as long as all the fish are peaceful they will school together!! look up a person named goodwin9 and look at his webpage with the video and u'll see that they all swim together must of the time! agreed! his tank is big enough he...

i'm surprized the red legs dont touch it, but the emerald will and the turbo should as well. my experiance is crabs will eat the hair algae and snails eat more of the film algae.

Originally Posted by reefkprZ check your phosphates. phosphates at low levels slow coraline growth at high levels kills coraline. my phosphates are undetectible. I use RO/DI water and then run phos-lock. I hate algea!!!

i didnt increase my lighting as in intensity, but i did in length. I dont have anything anymore. I used to have a longspine like you (gustavo), but it died along w/ many other inverts when my tank crashed about a month ago. I loved that guy, but i have corals now, so i wont get another one...

Originally Posted by mikelly02 Oh wow, I'm way off, thanks for the help. Good thing I don't have anything in it yet, I suppose! The skimmer is a Sea Clone 100, which the guy at the LFS said would be just fine b/c by the time we had the aquarium set up there'd only be 100 gal of water in the tank...

Originally Posted by mikelly02 Okay, I don't mean to take over the post with my own question but I'm very new at this and have no idea what #2's, 3's or 4's are... I have a 125g (6 ft wide) and if we are talking about filtration(?) I have two cascade filters models 1000 (265 gph) and 700 (185...

i think a 55 is large enough, just make you get the long version (48in long). My best advice is find a fish you like and do reasearch on it. Many aggressive fish will eat snails and crabs so you just need to find that out before you buy them. research reasearch reasearch... thats the best advice...

Originally Posted by goodwin9 The majority of the smaller frags were $10. ea, a few of them were $15. The large frags were $230. delivered Where did you get your frags from? If you can't say on this board can you PM me?

i've actully increased my lighting. I have a 6 bulb t-5HO set-up. My 2 atinics come on at 8am and turn off at 7pm. my 3 daylight and 1 atinic come on at 9am and turn off at 6pm. My bulbs are just about 8 months old as well, but the light cycle i have stated above just started about 3 weeks ago...

i'm suprized no one has said this yet, but i get snapping or knocking noises constantly at night and what they are in my tank is my nass. snails crawling on the glass and where my powerhead is aimed at the glass it taps thier shell against the glass.

I have had my tank up and running for about 8 months now and for a while i was getting great coraline growth on my rocks and glass, but then i had a small crash due to some metal being put into my tank about a month ago, but that has been removed and all my levels are perfect (ammonia, nitrate...