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OK, I am not suggesting to kill all things that are not pretty or some such, but when you have bad guys and can not get them out...kill them. Puchase a dowel. 2-3' depending on the width and breadth of your tank. Choose a dowel with the dimention that best fits in your hand, $3 or so. Tap a...

Truthfully, When I was breeding poison dart frogs, I secretly kept all my color/pattern variation mutants alive...a practice that was frowned upon by my fellow breeders. They culled all of their less than perfect. I preferred the different ones. As with dogs and cats, the mutts are the best...

Ok, not an olive shell. The olives have a tight tip that sharply tapers. Yours has a more gradual taper. It is not a cone, which is good. Hmmm. Try reviewing the following site. I am guessing a Miter at this point. http://nighthawk.tricity.wsu.edu/mus...astropods.html Mitridae Olividae or...

You may have a small mantis shrimp. Sounds like their calling card. Ray

An olive shell. Very common in the Carib. Ray

I am guessing this LR came from Florida. When I was a collector in Florida, I would get these guys all the time. Not really agressive or particularily evil. Just a funny little crab. I would collect these and cami-crabs. Neither were villians. Now I was working with FO and Florida Only tanks...

I have not kept these little happy guys just yet, but I have been giving it a fair amount of consideration. How to combat the need to feed. Perhaps since starfish grow back their arms, a reef-keeper could keep a fair amount of starfish like a linkas in their 'fuge. Sever a small piece of arm...

I have had an octopus and it was great for the short period that the little bugger was in the tank. The blue ring is protected and requires a great deal of red tape to be cut. If not an institution or science center I doubt very much that it would be allowed. Try a regular octopus, preferablly...

Seems the paired mantis must be real close or the tank is 1000gl so they can avoid each other. Makes you wonder how it all comes together? Ray

Originally posted by Bang Guy washing soda ? Ray

Yes this Mantis is the commonly referred to Peacock or Harliquin. Very beautiful and tons of character. The reason this one has not killed its tankmates is that the raptorial appendages are in regrowth. It is not clear if the claws were removed on purpose, I surely hope not as that would be...

http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/pics...a_backside.htm They are really cool...yeah I know, don't throw rocks. Ray

Bang and others, I am curious as to the actual details of limpets and keyholes, Archaeogastropoda, eating corals. Their whole niche in life is the slow life of creeping along grazing vegi mater and any detris caught within the same. I have found no evidence that limpets eat corals. You would...

You must have a mantis shrimp, sorry to say. I love them, but it is like loving tigers...you would not keep one with the kids. Hope all goes well with the trap. Make sure there are small holes over the surface of the trap so air will not get collected within and make it float. Have a pull...

with carroway seeds! Fantastic tank. Full of life and color, well done. Ray

Bang, That makes a great deal of sense. Good call. Ray

Is this the case? I find that hard to believe. Isopods are one of the greatest success stories in the oceans, all of the oceans, seas, etc.. These guys fill every niche you can imagine. Most good guy roles, eating dead organic matter. Only a few specializing in living tissue. I am left with...

http://nighthawk.tricity.wsu.edu/mus...uccinidae.html There are quite a few features that match these guys, a good chance it is a Buccinidae. Ray

Aeolids and Dendronotoidea feed mainly on members of the coral family (Cnidaria) which includes sea anemones, corals, soft corals and gorgonians (Alcyonarians), jellyfish, mollusc eggs, goose barnacles and Portuguese man-of-war. These amazing animals can pass the stinging cells (nematocysts)...

Well I have been on a researching mood today...the bad news is this, The body features and placement of the same marks this as a Aeolid or a Dendronotoidea rather than a harmless Doridoidea. <Aeolids and Dendronotoidea feed mainly on members of the coral family (Cnidaria) which includes sea...