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Peppermints can be little trouble makers...mine ate my aneome and rob my corals, despite the fact I feed them on a regular basis.

This looks very cool...the Shedd does a nice job with all its exibits. The Amazon Rising is pretty cool and the seahorses are not to be missed. BTW, I read an article in which it talked about how they get their salt water...the same way we do, mixing commercial salt with fresh water, what a...

I cannot believe this post is still alive...it was such a nice, innocent post in the beginning and look what you have done to her...this is like seeing a relative go into physical or mental decline, hard to watch but you glad they are still around.

Ask bang guy if you catch him on here...he is the regional pod/sand genius. For me, I have a dsb, refuge, and try to keep my salinity above 1.024

An overflow consists of a U tube which runs a continual syphon out of your tank into a box which has tubes going to a remote sump. The sump then has a pump in it that moves the water into another tube back to your tank. There is an overflow box that hangs inside of you tank to keep the U tube...

Did you use a tank that once housed fw? Copper can kill inverts like snails. Do you do frequent water changes? They can be sensitive to changes in salinity and such.

Thanks Thomas... I am using a clip on 13 watt pc light that I run 24/7...You may be right, it just scared me to see how all the others in the tank are behaving right now. It has been a day an a half and they still closed up. The fish seem fine, however, so perhaps it is something else. Any...

I noticed earlier today that I had blackened areas on the lower reaches of my dsb on my refugium. I am woried it was the dreaded bacteria that releases toxins into the water that some people claim can happen with a dsb. It smells terrible and now hair algae is growing all over the refuge. I...

You had me all excited--but what it does is move the post back to the top...it just is a way of saying that is what you did.

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My peppermints ate my curlique in its first few days...tried to nurse it back, but it died last week :( I do not plan on trying again.

Rye, it is this sort of thing that has kept you King of the Reef Nerds. Rock on, my Lord.

I just noticed that I was getting the black algae, I believe that is what it is anyway, and I am rather concerned. My refuge is a few weeks old and was doing fine until I put my heater in there. Since then I have had an explosion of hair algae in there and now this. I have since removed it...

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I use a glass canopy, but it does limit your flexibility with placement of pumps and such...I would advise against buying glass at the hardware store...the money i saved I payed for when the glass shattered under its own weight in my bare hands. I spent a few hours in the emergency room and...

Hey Bang Guy, I was wondering if there is a optimal sg level for pods to thrive in? I added a mandarin and want to make sure I am doing all I can to keep him healthy. Thanks.

I currently have six books I pick nuggets out of, but my favorite is Natural Reef Aquariums by John Tullock. It is a few years old, maybe five, but it really helped me. When looking at books, try to get recent works...things change in this hobby pretty quickly. As for coral books...I own...

Zounds!!! I started the Saddam post, but I never imagined it would lead to all this...I try to keep informed, read the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The New Republic...but the best piece on the Iraq issue was what I heard on NPR's This American Life. It gave all sides of the story and...

I just caught a blue leg hermit munching on my newly purchased fighting conch:mad: These guys are wearing on me...they eat each other, kill scarlets, and do all this even after I bought the 50 shells from here to give them options. Why are these guys so popular when other hermits are just as...

I found it...what is left of it, and it is now living in a glass under a lamp. I guess I can just hope for the best...for future referrence--is there any truth to the notion that an anenome dying will kill a tank?