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I did the same thing that boomer did, except I went to home depot and got the acrylic sheets they sell. I used the scoring blade to cut them to the size of my ehiem liberty, then I glued them together with aquarium silicone. Looks a little better, but if you're just going to use it every once...

Hey, I have the same thing! It was a hitch hiker on my first piece of live rock. I only see it once a week, but it has a brown shell with kind of a tube or something (looks like an elephant trunk) that it feeds off of rock with? I don't know what it is either, haven't been able to find...

That is a good idea uncle, I'll have to try that. Could c02 be increased by a protien skimmer going crazy and spiting hunreds of micro bubbles out? Because that's been happening all the sudden too. Obviously some sort of parameter that can't be tested that is out of wack. Oh, and swf.com...

Hey LOTR, where can you find this miricle mud? I've heard good things about it before (probably from you), but can't seem to find it. Also, do you know of any good places to get macro algae? Not one of the lfs in my town sell it, so I'm going to have to get it online.

He charged you $16 for a blue damsel?! It's definitly time to change to a different lfs! <img src="graemlins//eek.gif" border="0" alt="[eek]" /> Even the most expensive store in G.R. only charges $5. People can just be like that sometimes I guess huh? It's really frustrating, sorry to hear...

Do you guys have good luck with refugiums? I'm really thinking that when I build my sump I'll include one. I have everything to do it except the overflow box. Still can't decide whether I should just drop the money and buy one (they just seem so overpriced for a relitively simple idea) or if...

Just curious, what kind of filtration do you all use? Just a skimmer, a refugium, a canister, a wet dry, live rock, sand? I have a bak pak skimmer, and an ehiem power filter that's more for circulation than anything, but I still have the carbon and bio media in it. Considering taking it out...

That was over the course of the night, it didn't just jump to 8.2 right away. But do you think that would have been enough to kill the shrimp? What safer ways are there to raise ph? I couldn't get anything else to work.

Nope, I acclimated them even more carefully than the instructions said. I really took my time. Not only that but I'm very sure the cleaner shrimp didn't die from the acclimation, it was acting very normally for two days. And was that to drastic of a ph change? I really though it was too. I...

Sorry, the 8.0 was a mistake, it is 8.2. And my salinity is 1.023. And yes I know my ph is low, I've been trying to raise it for a very long time, baking soda is the first thing that has acctually worked to raise it (could have saved a lot on miricle products, that's for sure).

Well, I just pulled him out, and it's definitly not just an exoskeloton. I'm almost positive he's dead. One question, should I give him some more time just to see if he's molting again? Could he do that again already? He's just not decomposed at all (and with the life I have in my sand and...

The tank has only been set up for three months. The alkalinity has been at perfect at 3.5 ever since I've had it set up. My water temp stays a consisten 78. Someone in another post suggested adding 3 teaspoons to a 55 gallon, so I added 2 teaspoons last night. It brought it from 7.8 last...

Not only that, but the remaining shrimp seem fine, and the cleaner shrimp was perfectly fine before I went to bed last night. He was moving normally, and didn't seem to have anything wrong with him. He did molt in the bag on the way to my house, could that have anything to do with it?

I've noticed that when my snails go through a lot of algae, they leave a rather significant track of tiny pellets behind them that appears to be poop.

My shrimp are dying and I don't know why!! I've lost two peppermint shrimp, and one cleaner shrimp now! I have a 29 gallon reef tank with about 30 lbs of live rock, 50lbs of live sand, 2/55 watt power compact, bakpak protien skimmer, an ehiem canister filter, a power sweep power head...

I used a product called red slime remover. It worked great, 3 days and it was all gone. I tried many other ways to get rid of it before medicating. There is no way! It just kept coming back. And it will kill your coraline algae and corals if you don't watch it.

Just to update you, the shrimp is indeed molting. I can see him trying to get out of his old exoskeloton now (it looks like he's having a hard time). So for anyone else, when it looks like you have a dead shrimp give it a while before you take him out of the tank. This should prove very...

Has anyone actually seen a shrimp molt before? I have one that I either think is molting or dead, but I can't tell. It's not just the shell, I can see body parts inside, but it won't move, and it doesn't look quite right. I just want to know, if it's dead I want to get it out of my tank...

Hey, I just did this, so I thought I'd tell you what I did. I got enough bags of just plain argonite to get the desired depth, and then I got a bag of the carbi-sea with the bacteria in it. I took ten gallons of my tank water and put it in a quaritine tank, then put my fish in there, and put...

Predator-I have at least 8 years left in college! So no tank like that any time soon. I'm getting a doctrite in philosophy to become a professor (so when all is said and done, I'll probably never make as much as I spent to go to school). I'm definitly going to put a beautiful tank like yours...