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Wow...that was fast!! CrazyC hit me with an email not 5 minutes after my post. Liverock is his...livestock is going to my LFS...looks like I'll be setting up a 55 gallon freshwater community tank on Monday. Thanks to everyone...and I highly recommend the classified boards if you have something...

Thanks...yeah I agree most definately with the research time. I don't think that's stressed enough. Also, constantly trying to combat the pretty impulse buy (that's a pretty mandarin!) can honestly be a psychological stress. It can be so frustrating to see so many beautiful specimens that you...

Howdy, I've been a member of the board here for over four years now, and during that time I've been a strong advocate of the "working man's reef tank". That is, the idea that you can maintain a nice reef tank on a very strict time and money budget. While I don't want to discourage anyone from...

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Hi. I've had my 55 gallon reef for four years now and am interested in switching to a freshwater set up. There are three ways I'm willing to part with it: 1) the whole shebang...$700 includes: 55 gallon tank two door stand 4 48" flourescent bulbs (2 48" faux oak strips and 1 shop light) heater...

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I have a 55 gallon reef tank that I want to convert into either a fo or a freshwater community tank. Not alot of livestock (1 cb shrinp, 1 serpent star, 3 damsels, and a bunch of crabs (scarlet and blue)), but I do have about 80 pounds of excellent liverock. Lots of coraline algea some little...

I have the same problem (actually I just posted a new thread...sorry!!!) I bought some yellow polyps that did fine for a 5 or 6 hours and then closed up. That was 4 days ago and I haven't seen them since. 5 or 6 months ago the same thing happened with some button polyps I had bought. I was told...

I bought a piece of lr at my lfs the other day that had 4 or 5 mushrooms and a small patch of yellow polyps. During the first 5 or 6 hours, the polyps were open and seemed to be doing fine, but I haven't seen them since! The "mat" is still there, but they won't open. The mushrooms are fine and...

My tank has what I thought was a green hair algea problem. But now I'm wondering if that is what this is. The pics of green hair algea I've seen aren't what's taking over my tank. The stuff in my tank is short and brillo pad like. Very green, and attaches to the lr in patches. I keep hearing...

I was just going to post this myself. I can't keep snails to save my life!! I keep buying them to cut down on my hair algea, but the algea always outlasts them!! My sand is clean, but shouldn't they eat some of the stuff on my rocks? I do have some blue leg hermits...I didn't know that they...

Okay...I've kept a yellow tailed damsel alive for 3 years now. My anemome and clownfish are thriving, my corals are doing fine....but I can't keep green chromises for nothin'! I bought three of them about a year ago and within a month all three had died. Last month I bought another three and I...

Thanks...Pavona it is! The pictures match up really well. Thanks for the care info...I'll get some of the plankton, how often do you feed it? Very excited...after three years this is my tanks first non-mushroom/polyp coral. (I'm cheap and like to keep things simple.) later...grouch

It has a skeleton, and is hard all the way through. It doesn't seem to be attached to live rock, it's made of the "leaves". Each of these leaves consist of a hard white skeleton and an encrusting "skin". The "skin" is feels very rough, like a nail board or sandpaper. I saw a picture of a Pavona...

I picked this up at a LFS the other day for $20, but they weren't sure what it is. It's hard and kinda rough to the touch (like an emory board). The bottom pic is a close up of the encrusted pattern. It's very pretty and I'm glad I got it, but it would help if I knew what it was so I can take...

Thanks for the tips. He's doing great! Nice tan color. He anchored himself on a chunk of live rock in the front corner of my tank. My clarkii is in heaven! I have a pretty small setup--55gallons with 160 watts of light. I've always been blessed with great water conditions (knock on wood)...

So I was in one of the "chain" stores the other day...it rhymes with "metco"...and I see this great looking sebae. Then I notice that the price tag underneath it says that it is a condy and it's marked at $5.99. So I ask the person, "Is this (pointing at the sebea) the condy that is $5.99?" And...

thanks for the reassurance. I checked it today and it looks like about half the skeleton is gone now (but the lights just came on a couple hours ago). I have it towards the very top of my tank...surely it's not getting too much light?! Should I consider moving it? It was only about a $10 frag...