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I may need to move my aquarium in a month or so. I know I need to hold my same water, rocks, and sand. Also should I keep the sand in a bucket with water from the tank? I also have an anemone in the tank.. what is the safest way to transport it? Bag the rock it's on? How hard is this to do...

Yeah, I had a tiger pistol before. I still can't believe it ended up on the carpet.. =/. For now it has been replaced by a coral banded, I had wanted one for ages anyway, now with the tiger gone I had no excuse. Besides my watchman is more active without a pistol shrimp.. yet he seems to have...

The anemone is a RBTA. So with it staying pretty much in one spot I should be ok with a coral banded? Perhaps my flame angel was harassing it, they've always gone back and forth over holes. Normally the pistol will snap at him a few times and that's it for a few days. The last two days I...

Ok.. I had heard yellow watchmen goby may jump out of the tank. But I was doing some maintenance tonight and found my pistol shrimp completely dried out behind the stand! Has anyone else seen this happen before? Secondly.. I'm looking for something to replace it, and since this was my second...

Since adding the new lights it seems to be bleaching a little just around the edge of the top layer. Not like the edges are growing, but at the edges of the flat part you can see on top. Is it just adjusting to the stronger light or perhaps something more sinister? I think it did get stung by my...

well it decided to come back out today lol. now its sitting on my brain coral. Looks like though that it hasn't hurt it any. Seems like the carbon is doin its job

I have a small peppermint shrimp in my 29 gallon with a watchman/tiger pair. The tiger/watchman were in there for 3 months prior to adding the peppermint shrimp. I Haven't had any problems in 2 weeks, and see the peppermint shrimp near the pistol on occasion. I should mention though I have a ton...

My percula pair of clowns hosted my RBTA within a week *shrug*. Since it moved to the back of the tank one of my clowns is still in it.. the other is hosting the red calerpa that was directly behind the nem durign the day.. then back to the nem at night :P.. They are odd little creatures and...

I dunno about the lighting. I recently upgraded to a 4 bulb T5HO setup on my tank.. and my RBTA actually went into hiding because of it. I have 4 39 watt bulbs though, as I went with the 36" wide so I would have 0 lighting deadspots. I would think 4 T5HO is fine, but I have read most people...

from the research i recall when looking into getting an anemone.. I would not even bother with a bleaching anemone unless you have had a lot of experience with them before. It is very hard to get them to recover. On a side note.. I love my RBTA.. until it started hiding yesterday after staying...

Turns out I had a pic afterall, from before my camera was taken! Since this I have moved it up in the tank a bit more, but it looks pretty much the same. Whatdya think?

My two, Oscar and ophelia, playing in their RBTA :) (ophelia is the misbar with the circle instead of a middle stripe)

My RBTA does not like my knew lights. I know now why clowns love these things, they both do whatever they feel like just to spite their owners! LOL. I got a new nova SLR t5HO setup to replace my Glo dual t5. About a day after installing it my rbta moved to the back underneath the rock it was on...

Well, looks like its on its way to being in good shape. After the new lights, it is no extending its polyps at night fully. Looks like it wasn't getting enough photo energy from the lights before to even give it the energy to do that =/ Good thing I was feeding the nem twice a week! Looks like I...

will do, thanks. The tank it came from (Or at least the sell tank it was in) Had a 250 watt MH sunpod fixture over it. So.. yeah it was an extreme light setup lol. I hope that's all it is!

Thanks supratt, I'll keep a closer check on alk and calc now then. So far my tank hasn't needed any dosing with the weekly 3-5 gallon water changes. Also, at night it hasn't been doing any extending that I could see. With the new lights it does seem to be opening up its tentacles, but still very...

The tank overall has a Medium water flow (Koralia #2 and the coralife skimmer output). The lighting, well.. I just upgraded today actually and now have 4 T5HO over the tank, and it will be up to six as soon as I can find a way to fit the Nova, and my glo fixture over the tank lol. the 4 over it...

So I pulled the trigger on the Nova extreme T5 and decided on the 36" due to planning to upgrade from the 29 to a 55gallon eventually anyway. Currently I only have a dual bulb Glo T5HO. How should I go about making this change so it doesn't shock my fish or corals? I plan to have all 6 bulbs...

I got my first SPS about a week ago, and it doesn't seem to be doing very well. It isn't bleaching and it still has an orange color (digitata), but I have seen no real polyp extention. It seems sometimes like it may be a little fuzzy, but nothing note-worthy. Currently is only under a dual Glo...

I did the full teardown monthly maintenance on my tank over the weekend, and noticed in my skimmer a ton of white things that looked very similar to the white sponges that randomly grow in our tanks. Except they were soft, slimey, and opened and closed the tips. They were growing inside my...