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You put a container around the coral so that during feeding you can concentrate the food around the polyps for them to feed. othewise, the food gets all blown in with tank water, and is a lower concentration, and this harder for the corals to feed. The problem with a tank of non-photosyntheitc...

I use natural seawater...have done for about 2 years now. I get it from the LFS, and it is collected a few miles offshore by a company called Catalina, and apparently filtered once (although I wouldn't bet that they actually do this!) I would NOT use water from the shore, mainly due to the...

No worries. I would also suggest for the next week or two, adding garlic supplement to the fishes food as this helps strengthen a fish's immune system, thus helping to fight of ich and any bacterial infections. You can pick up a tube at your LFS, an then all you do is add a little to the food...

Honestly...I think all this chasing him around is probably doing more harm than good. I am a little unclear about how long he has been in your tank, but generally I think it takes a fish a few days to a week to settle down after being moved, and often about 2-3 weeks for then to start...

Lots of Coral. One Cleaner Shrimp. (I will probably add nother one of these) An unidentified number of crabs and snails. One Foxface.

Well, your phosphates are really high, and so algae growth will be a bit of an issue for you. I have the same problem with phosphates because of a cc sand bed. Perhpas the turbos cannot keep up, or perhpas there is enough algae in easier to get to places, so they do not need to go through your...

First, very pretty zoas...those are nice. It is kind of hard to tell from that picture, but it looks like some of the zoas are getting a little "fuzz" on them. This may be the start of some algae growth, which is quite probable given your phosphate levels. I am not sure what kind of flow they...

As I said, you could try frozen food, or as mentioned, live brine if it is available in your area. The problem is, while some people get very lucky with the frozen, the vast majority of these fish wil not eat frozen foods...but instead will only eat live copepods. It is worth a try, you never...

A scooter Blenny has basically the same dietary needs as a mandarin. Basically, all day long they eat live copepods. An immature 55 gallon tank with 90 or so lbs of live rock will not sustain it. You could buy some live copepods on the Internet to try and supplement your current population...

They look like hydroids, but you may want to do a search to be sure.

I have never seen a tank with a tide effect, basically water flowing on one direction for 6 hours, then the other, done twice a day. My only thought would be that in such a closed environment, the hydro dynamics would have the water coming back of the far wall in a counter-current...which would...

Fronm the picture, maybe flatworms?

Yup..those are what I was talking about. Nice work Salty.

Also, a more remote chance, the thing int he picture could be some form of small gorgonian / sea fan thing that is growing. Again, that would also be good. I think until you know what it is, I would leave it alone. Stewart

I don't think that picture is hydroids...they look more like a bunch of single tubes with feathers coming out that can retract when stimulated...kind of like little aptasias, except lots of them bunched together with individual ahrd tubes. Unfortunately I have the little baXXXXs,a nd I despise...

Hmmm...I do not have a clam, and I hate to put animals at risk, but I agree with Agouti. I have read on another site's message board that specializes in clams, that indeed certain clams will be fine under PC light. I actually specifically asked this question to the resident experts and they...

Mouse, The red stuff looks like cyno-bacteria to me. The little brown specs on the sand might be diatom-ish, but it is hard to tell from the pictures. Some tank specs would help. Are your nitrates high? Your phosphates? (I would bet on those being high) Also how much circlulation do you...

There are differnt types of pods that come in different sizes. The ones I believe you have from your description are copepods. The larger ones that you describe as being at the LFS sound like amphipods. It may just be as simple as your tank not having amphipods, but having copepods. That...

Acrylic, That quote states that coloration varies due to changes in the type of zooaxanthallae, and presumably, due to the different energy levels (or actually variations thereof) of the zooaxanthallae in different conditions, and thus presumably the resultant effect that the variable energy...

Viper, I am open to correction here, but it is my understanding the zooxanthallae are basically a type of dinoflaggellates. They exist in the water column as a seperate and distinct animal (although animal may not be the exact term here) capable of producing their required energy (basically a...