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woops my bad on saying anemone! mushroom corals have the same thing. They're all part of the phylum 'cnideria'. Cnido- meaning stinging nettle or stinging cell.

I believe what you are seeing is the discharging of nematocysts. I've only seen it happen once in lab so I'm no expert at identifying it. Judging by the fact that you said they are retracting the discharge, it is most likely nematocysts. Google some pictures to confirm. Nematocysts are stinging...

Hey i already posted this is the New Hobbyist section...but it really belongs here and i dont know how to move a thread, so im just going to rewrite it! I have a 50g which contains at this moment: Liverock, sand, snails, hermits, and one firefish. I recently added a new anthias (after...

B&Ws and orange ocellaris are the SAME species! you should have no more difficulty with a B&W and an orange, then you would have with just 2 oranges. I had this exact same question a while back and being a genetics major i went all nutso doing research about it, hehehe. since they are the same...

Also on that note, I was told be LFS that formalin (diluted formaldehyde) was effective treatment for ich. Any thoughts on that? Any thoughts on adding that to the main tank with snails/hermits? Tried to catch the firefish today. gave up after a while. its a 50g tank, so tacking apart the rock...

Can i just do hyposalinity in the DT? its got liverock, a couple snails, a couple hermits, and the firefish will the inverts die from the hypo?

okay ill try to get the firefish out... not sure if i can though! he moves so fast i cant even see him!! lol

I have a fairly new tank that i just started in January. I have one firefish, which was added about a month and a half ago, and i added my new anthias to the maintank (after several weeks of quarantine and no sign of disease) about a week ago. Yesterday the anthias showed signs of ich, so I...

Thanks for your imput guys! I didnt realize they are actually the same species. To answer the genetics question: If it a simple complete segregation allele, then the b&w gene is recessive: Z=orange z=b&w Z is dominant over z ZZ=orange, Zz=orange, zz=b&w If you have an orange times a b&w it could...

Just curious...has anyone tried to have a black and white clownfish and a false perc in the same tank? I'm wondering because the LFS has those two in a fairly small tank..probably 25g or something like that.

Ok here's my wild attempt at photography! Hope this helps! and thanks so much for replies so far! you guys are the best!

Hmm I don't think that's what it is. From what I see, it looks as though those have long rather 'disorganized' (ya know what i mean?) tentacles. The ones i have have shorter tentacles that form a perfect flat ring outward from the mouth. I'll keep browsing through pictures to try to ID it until...

appy=aptaisia? if thats the case, google is bringing up loads of different pictures so im not sure what i should actually be looking for. do you have a good picture of what that is so i can compare?

appy? never heard of it. so nope

darn! i was hoping nobody would say that! hah. i will try to get a photo up when i get home from work

So I've just started my first saltwater tank. It's 40 gallons and is set up to be fish and live rock only. It's been running about 2 months now. Yesterday, I randomly found 4 individual polyps on one of my rocks and have NO clue where they came from! I'm just wondering if someone can give me...

Your B&W clowns look fantastic! what an adorable pair of fish! hope they work out well for ya!

Ya the clownfish was one of the ones i kept getting conflicting info about. I think i will just get one of them so that i can get something else! I had never been very interested in the flame hawkfish, but when i was just checking them out everyone seems to love them! they sure do seem to have...

Hello! I've been a long time stalker of these message boards but this is my first time posting. I'm new to saltwater tanks and I'd like to hear some feedback about my fish list! The tank is 37gallons. The fish that I REALLY want are: Firefish False clowns Pajama cardinals I've read a bunch of...