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From experience, one pitfall of setting up your tank in another room (nano or otherwise) is that you are going to be spending a lot of time in that room away from your wife. Ours is in an abliet great place in the foyer/entryway of the house, but I fin myself camped out there studying the tank...

From experience, one pitfall of setting up your tank in another room (nano or otherwise) is that you are going to be spending a lot of time in that room away from your wife. Ours is in an abliet great place in the foyer/entryway of the house, but I fin myself camped out there studying the tank...

Pic 2 is a Foraminiferen. There are several varieties of these: 1) red bumpy growths (the one in your tank) which will often extend fine white filiaments which is uses to feed with. 2) small white stalky form, 3) flat round disk shape. All are small (1/8 to 1/4 inch) and harmless. Enjoy!

Sounds like a Mantiss Shrimp - very nasty.

The exact same thing is happening to me. I have 2 mushrooms, one has been in the tank for 2 weeks, the other for just one. Its the newer one that has been closed for about 2 1/2 days - closed right after I fed it some phytoplankton. I fed them both and the 'older' one has been opening ok so...

I've had one cleaner for about 4 months and just added a second about a week ago. Both shrimps are active, and the first is even more than usual now that he has a partner. They are great additions to a reef. I too have had my fingers nibbled at when I am in the tank - kinda cool. They go...

My name is Bill. I am 34 and a visual effects supervisor in Hollywood. I have worked in the FX industry for about 8 years working on mostly feature films with a few commercials thrown in for good measure. I've had a 100 gal reef tank for about 4 months now and am completely hooked. I enjoy...

I just got a Marine Life Aquatics CR-250. Its only been running for a day and a half so its too soon to fully evaluate, but the setup and install was fairly painless and it had a nice small footprint for my 100gal.

True. Either way, however (raising vs. lowering), an effect on pH could effect the breakdown of the starfish tissue.

Starfish are very sensitive to pH changes. Your pump churning air may have increased the CO2 into your tank which would lower the pH considerably. Starfish, especially brittle stars will start to disintegrate. I have a red serpent that lost one of his legs shortly after introducing him to my...

I have just purchased the 24GPD Maxima RO/DI system from Kent Marine. I am currently in the process of trying to get my 100gal setup as automated as possible. Later this year I will be out of town for several weeks at a time over a period of six months or so and am trying to make the process...

The rocks weren't bought online. Just got them from my LFS. I bought them there because I needed a fairly small size to fit in my refugium. There's two of them in there, both about the size of a head of lettuce. Since they were for the refugium, I wasn't looking for beauty, just a surface...

All I can think of is that he was a hitchiker on some of the liverock I put in the sump. I saw a jelly fish exhibit at the Long Beach aquarium here in California and saw that they do go through several phases. One of the phases looks a bit like an anemone and is attached to the substrate...

This morning I was looking at my refugium and saw this small white mound of non-moving indistinct "white stuff". I went into investigate with a cleaning probe and lo-and-behold, it was a deceased jellyfish, about 2 inches long including the tentacles. I promptly removed it of course, but it...

After several months of waiting, I finally got a bubble tipped anemone. I put it in the tank and first thing it does is crawl off to the one spot in my tank where I cant get to it; i.e. cant feed it. Its been there for a couple of days, opened up and looking fine, but I'm worried that I wont...

There is a great little book called "Sand Bed Secrets" by Ron Shminek. He discusses DSB's in general and addresses the fear of hydrogen sulfide poisoning. He states that the likelyhood of this ever reaching dangerous levels is very remote and even more so if your inhabitants (worms, snails...

Are you sure your hermits are dead. When I got my cleanup crew with about 40 reds and 10 blues, I saw several of what I thought were "corpses" the next morning, but sure enough after doing a bit more watching and counting it turns out that they were just molts. In that order, I also had a red...

Today a blue linkia that I've had for about a month died. He had been hanging limply for a few days but finally gave out and was partially disintegrating this morning. I'm pretty sure he starved to death. I tried repeatedly to get him food and even placed him directly on top of some diced...

Visual Effects Supervisor for computer graphics special effects in such movies as "Cats & Dogs", and "Babe: Pig in the City"

Valencia, about 30 mi N of Los Angeles. About a month into it and lovin it!