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I lost my sea slugs {lettuce} also after buying with the assurance that it was reef safe, but they do definately need a specialized diet, as I found out after the fact. Hate losing things. Watched them ,2, starve slowly. Horrible, all because I bought something I could not find info out on...

My plate coral gets a small piece of directly fed shrimp or any seafood I have on hand, as long as it is raw and marine seafood, the chili modern is to be fed sparingly, sometimes once a week, sometimes it goes two weeks without. My sun coral gets fed cyclops and phytoplex or brine shrimp or...

When they molt, they hide very well until their new shell hardens. Are your calcium levels up to par? If they do not have enough to harden their shell, they will be vulnerable to other tank mates. When they are molting, they are very vulnerable also. It still may come out. They really hide in...

Robchuck, The circulation is very important. Where ever there is not good movement in our tank , there is red slime and hair algea. On the back especially. My corals and other life do not seem to mind the stuff however. All are flourishing. I peel the red off, and scrape the other. Have not...

Algeal buildup in my tank however, is from high phosphates from our well water. I need an ro system but that is in the future due to cost. The phytoplex has worsened it considerably.

I came across a site written by Steve Weiss about there being a product for removal of red slime algea and it did not interefere with the other life in the tank. I think I got it off of a search page from Aquadirect.com? I think I have spelled his name correctly, although it may have been Weist...

My brittle star got large enough to wrap its tentacles around a new baby Luther goby, twice, and I removed the goby, took it back to LFS. They were kind enough to put it into a seven gallon tank and awaited the brittle star to be brought in. They do not injure or eat corals, Just weakened and...

Thanks for the comments. Shrimp do have live shrimp, larval stage is what I have also witnessed and yes, the fish love them. Great live food for the tank. Have just never seen one carry the eggs for so long and become so stuffed with them. I do know at times something can occur that will...

Any one watch a peppermint shrimp blow up with eggs? The eggs perhaps are not going to develop? They are sticking out of her crevises, everywhere. Would love to help her but perhaps should just let nature take it's course? Any advice?

Good for you Madysmom! Brine will be the last choice for your mandarin but along with a good pod population, it may be ok. They eat tiny live pods continually, until lights are out so if there is any way you could supply more to your tank it would be good. I waited a year or more before I...

A friend of mine went to the extreme in that her tank became inundated with them. I mean every rock was a mass of them. She took her corals to our LFS, and put a butterfly fish in from the LFS. It ate what appeared to be hundreds in a very short time, but, it then came close to starving...

Those pictures have made me extremely happy! Have never known quite what I was looking at; only that they were pods. What is wrong with the Australian pod? What harm can they do?

Inhumane!!!!! I would picket the store!

What is Joe's juice? I've four or five of them and was going to pput aquarium glue over them.

Thank Hookedonreefs, I will address another forum, or simply call Beths attention to this question. Certainly it may be something to look out for in that my reef is many years old at this point. No immediate signs.

I have very little sand in my tank, mixed with fine coral. Want to add more just for the goby that is smaller than I anticipated and I know it needs to sift sand. Was going to get it from the bottom tank where I "liven" it up and then bring it to the top tank. What are the signs of dsb and ssb...

Shoreliner, Beth has also stated as such so for now will take yours and her word for it. The mandarin was eating and very active a few days before that. But, I can feel more relaxed about the worms. I have everything from red to bluish to pink bristleworms in my tank and I forgot to mention to...

Well, I do know they are beneficial for clean up of dead carcasses. however, the mandarin should have lived longer than 5 yrs. and the last I'd seen it it was active and eating. Why do bristle worms circle and appear to strangle button polyps, that I have seen also. No urgency in answering...

Say, Any of you ever watch in horrific belief as your fish, in this case a five year old mandarin, was being pulled in as I tried to get its carcass out of a very large rock, by a bristle worm the size of my index finger. It pulled it into a deep hole in the rock which was immovable due to its...

Thanks Bang Guy!! Well, it is useful, will keep it and use it sparingly.