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Originally posted by dburr Gotta keep the algae and cyno off it. Trim back the dead parts and stick it where there is little light. Algae and cyno don't grow were the light is not. And yes, keep up the flow. Thank you, I'll do it. Didn't think of that! Doh.

After 6-8 months of doing great, this sponge started to decline and I haven't been able to reverse decline even though I've given it more flow (but still not heavy). Any ideas?

Originally posted by funkyman Thanks, funkyman. Glad I entertained at least one soul -- I think my girlfriend really started to wonder about me when I told her why I was so tired today... It seems that everything has surivived and most stayed stuck. The variety of colors is quite amazing...

Originally posted by ohioballer got about 150lbs. of live rock 40 lbs of sand, 4 false percs, arc eye hawk and a coral beauty so i dont feel my bioload is that high all in a 75 if i didnt metion it before I have a similar setup and couldn't figure out why my nitrates were so high. Took off...

i bought some reefbones at one point -- dry dead coral rock. it worked fine but for some reason the lfs's don't sell it and if you buy it online you've gotta pay shipping -- which defeats some of the point of getting the cheap rock in the first place! if you google "reef bones" it'll come up at...

My problem with the scallops is that while I'm prepared to feed it with a turkey baster, they tend to find very discreet spots in the rock that are either hard to reach with the baster or impossible to find. I tried two and both eventually died, after playing hide and seek for a few months. I'm...

Originally posted by sweetreef close up of one of my clams and my b.t.a found his spot behind the clam.. THis is funny -- my b.t.a. went to the exact same place next to the exact same clam. He's really crowding it, but the clam so far (maybe 3-4 months) doesn't seem to mind. Should I (or you)...

It is not normal to order 23 button frags on ---- when one is, fundamentally, broke, merely because the pictures look pretty. It is not normal to come home before a night on the town and find said 23 button frags on your doorstep. It is not normal to come home at 11 pm after said night on the...

Originally posted by GregM779 lopeyc, I have seen this happen many times. All of the yellow leathers 3 of my LFSs got this week are doing the same thing. I believe that it is something that they get and I do not know how to cure it. You should frag any healthy part of it you can as the...

that's crazy nice. i recently bought a yellow leather that looked just like that ... for a week. now he's completely crumpled and tan brown. Any suggestions on how to revive him?

Just wanted to post an endorsement for peppermints when it comes to dealing with aiptasia. I had a nasty outbreak in my 90g and applications of joe's juice killed individuals but they kept coming back in waves. Ordered 5 peppermints and within a week of their arrival every single aiptasia (and...

Thanks, I'll get him out. But now I'm getting paranoid about other crabs, other tanks... Ah, why can't we all just get along! :nervous:

So I have this 12g microreef which has one fish (red-headed goby, less than 1" long) and one crab (sally, about 2" across). I thought sallys were supposed to be safe tankmates, but a knowledgeable guy at a good lfs told me that ANY crab is opportunistic and can get a fish if he is big enough...

Well, I wasn't suggesting the vaporized -- more likely they were knocked into a crevice. At least that's what would have happened in my tank! It's a fuzzy picture, so I can't exactly say. But I do know this: There are no crustaceans or molluscs I've ever heard of that have teeth and walk around...

That doesn't look like anything that would eat a shroom. Are those teeth or just soft tissue? Looks like the mantle of a scallop or clam.

So I have a leather near the bottom of a 24" tank that has lost a lot of his color but still seems to be doing OK for the past six months. Is there anyway to bring back that color? Ideas I had were to move him up higher in the tank where he'd both get more light, more water movement and less...

If they are really shrimp spawn, there is nothing you can do -- there simply isn't any way, I don't think, that crustaceans with all their weird larval stages can come to maturity in a reef tank. They'll be eaten by morning, probably. My cleaner shrimp lay eggs, they hatch every few nights and...

grooming the sponge... sounds a little dirty, no?

At this distance you can't see my outbreak of aiptasia...

Thanks all. It was actually me who bumped that cool info thread. I checked my halide timer and made the embarrassing discovery that somewho it had gone from 8 hours to 12 hours. Not sure if I did that or my son was playing with it or what, but I think that is too much! I put it to 8. Should I...