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if you are feeding goldfish, you should know that they are the equivalent to a big mac with cheese and fries, compared to more natural food listed above which would be like a salad and some fruit. goldfish will really mess up your system too. they cause a lot of waste from what they are fed to...

all crustaceans molt, except for barnicals. they lose their shell and then puff them selves up with water and secret a new shell so thwy have room to grow in it. young crabs that are growing rapidly can molt as often as every other week. most adult crabs do it about every 6 weeks. it depends...

If your water quality is less than great a feather duster will lose its crown. I is a weird process. the tips will curl and then the crown will drop off like someone came along with a pair of scissors. remove the dead crown or let some hermits snack on it. you wont see any activity from the...

sand isnt essential to the fish's survival. we keep the tanks at work free of substrate. as long as there are plenty of hiding spaces and enough time with the lights off to sleep at night all will be fine. also, with the blenny, if he has something to perch on he will be happier.

I dont know of any invertebrates that eat them, but i have been resaerching this lately as I have a plague of them in a 90 gallon. someone told me that six line wrass will eat them, others have said mandarins will. the only thing that seems to work is sucking them up and increasing the...

i saw one that was 4 years old and as big as my hand. 5 or 6 inches down the back. it was at the end of its life. it got big enough to eat a small purple tang :(

ok here is the weird thing. i bought an anemone in the first week after my tank cycled. i know looking back this was a stupid chioce because they require so much light. well on my 20 gal I only have 2 15 watt 20,000k and one actinic. when i first got the anemone it was white (a sign of death...

I have several of the same fish as you do. The clown and cardnal and the neon. i had a gramma but it jumped out of the tank into an empty bucket :( he was fascinating to watch but since hes gone I replaced him with a Red Lipped Blenny. he has so much personality. hes constantly swimming...

I fed all of my invertebrates last night. i use a variety of thigs including micro vert and chroma plex by kent marine, usually these products cloud the water and in the morning it is all clear again. but this morning I turned on the lights and its still cloudy? what could cause this? I am...

You have an anthias in a 25 gallon!! that is way to small. they need the biggest tanks even though they are tiny fish. they need more room than tangs! you should seriously rethink having him in such a small tank.

I have a terrible problem with flatworms at work in our 90 gal reef. any suggestions? i heard that mandarins eat them but id like to get you opinion. :o )

5'2" size 8 womens

At my work I had to wean a lionfish. what i did was to start feeding him ghost chrimp that had soaked up a little food coloring (orange to look like freeze dried krill) he snapped them up just fine. then i killed the shrimp (by freezing) and put that on the end of a feeding stick. when he...

I recently discovered two strange mollusks on my life rock. both are alive and aparently doing well. I cant tell if they are muscles or clams or what. I feed my corals and inverts well so they are getting plenty to eat... anyone heard of this before?

I started out the same way. i have perc. and then added a red lip blenny and bangi cardnal and finally a small neon goby. everyone gets along fine. i also had a gramma the jumped out of the tank, but was a wonderful addition. i but him in after the clown and all was well. i miss him.

White or white with pink or red are usually safe. be careful of them multiplying. if they have a few short legs then they have just cloned themselves. they are pretty common.

My cleaner shrimp never hides and routinely flutters up to the top of the tank (at feeding time) to grab and clean my fingertips. hes good at cleaning under my nails. all the other cleaners that I have seen arent shy at all. give yours time and im sure hell come out.

I have getten some information on how to make and cure your own live rock from cement and aragonite or crushed coral. Have any of you tried this? What problems has it caused? I would like to create my own for the 75 gallon tank I am going to start. If anyone is interested, I found the bulk...