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does anybody keep the longnose BF, Forcipiger flavissimus in their reef? what are your experienceS? i have read that it can be done with pretty much no problem for corals. they are also supposed to be alot more hardy than CBBF's for example, with higher immune systems and not being caught with...

congrats, you are the first person i have ever heard of keeping them successfully. whats your secret? husbandry habits? what do you feed? i should have said 100% of the cases i have seen posted about, read about in books, and including my experience as well. this is a forum of hobbyists , not...

i didnt really know still i started researching. i still dont know if i know. and i definitely dont know how to kill it!

maybe 2-3 months.

wow crimzy i missed this thread until today. awesome project you got going.

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there have been recorded incidents of bad batches of salt. every now and again you hear about something like this, that wipes out a whole reef tank. they say when you get a new bucket (assuming you buy salt by the bucket to save $) to make a very small amount of water and test it for...

feather dusters, coco worms. you can also add sun corals or some non-photsynthetic gorgonians, but you will need to feed them.

not sure what you are dosing, but it sounds like you are putting in something keep ammonia down because of your sand bed switch? what are your levels at now , after the substrate switch? i wouldnt add anything you cant test for. i saw that it is on a frag of rock, but why did you not put that...

well what it comes down to is that PC lighting really is insufficient for acros. no matter how high up in the tank they are. not saying the coral cant survive, but i am saying it wont be at full health and coloration, if it does.

what stability stuff? flow looks fine. but why is it in the sandbed and not on a rock?

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do a search on : Green algae / Chlorophyta: Acetabularia sp. - Mermaid's wine glass. Photo courtesy Yasuhiro Tomioka

wow 10 bucks / polyp of tubs blues?? 10 bucks / eagle eye polyp?? and not even a picture. are you trying to run a business or just plain rip people off? IMO what makes this hobby great is that we as hobbyists have the power to drive down prices of things that make it so expensive. so when...

any suggestions on how to rid my tank of this stuff? i believe it to be Asparagopsis sp my tank btw supports everything from zoos to acros, i have a phosban reactor, but since the PO4 has been at zero i have been running carbon in it. i have what seems to be 2 different forms of it but i dont...

that is not red Hair Algae, if such a thing exists , it is red turf algae which is very invasive and very hard to remove

agreeing that it is not red sea. i have dove the red sea and the two xenia they have there does not look like that. Mr.X portrays the common correct red sea very well. that is however, a very nice specimen. it has a deeper red to it that is not so common IMO. unless that is just the photo...

well that does look alive, but light starved.

flame scallops are one of the notorious things in this hobby. sold everywhere because beginners think they are so cool and cheap, but they always die , 100% of the time, within weeks. dont waste your money. if you have a nitrate problem, try to discover the root cause of it instead of...

here is the mother colony, you can see some regular EE's mixed in on the edges.