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Thanks, I'll check my phosphates.

I need a cocommendation on a good fix for out of control slimey brown agae and hoped someone would have a recommendation. I have close to 20 snails in my 55 gallon reef tank and they can't seem to control it. I have corals, lr and other inverts like shrimp and anemones so I need something that...

A couple of months back I found this cute little critter piggy-backed in a patch of maiden's hair on a rock that I had purchased: http://members.aol.com/alphaomicron/images/crab1.jpg Does anyone know what kind of crab he is? I'm not entirely sure, but I think he's a mythrax crab. I have two...

That's interesting, you actually cut it off with a knife? One of the new buds had trouble staying put because it was so lite. The current would make it float away. I moved it to a new spot where it seems to have stayed put overnight. Thanks!

I found a little one this morning that had budded off. Pretty wild. I have them reproducing in two different ways. Thanks!

Nah, I would just leave it. Supposedly its a good source of calcium for the other inhabitants of the tank. My shrimp molt about once every three weeks and I usually just leave the sheddings in the tank. Your lucky, I've never seen my shrimp or crabs molt. They usually do it after hours when the...

I have a one tomato and one clarkii clown and two anemones. One is a sebae and the other a bubble tip. The clarkii took to the bubble tip in three hours, but it took my tomato clown a month and a hald to take to an anemone. I think he learned from watching the clarkii and finally took to the sebae.

Thanks for the advice. I'm going to try and keep things as are. The inhabitants of the tank seem pretty happy and stable.

Hello Everyone, This weekend I noticed that my mushroom corals are duplicating. I went away for the weekend and when I came home yesterday I found one of the mushrooms on a live rock below the rest of mushroom corals. Upon closer examination I noticed one of them looked that it was growing two...

Thanks Rich, And all this time I though that thing on top was his eye. lol!!! -Seaweed

Sorry, here's the correct Url: http://members.aol.com/alphaomicron/.../urchineye.jpg

Hi Everyone, The other day I noticed these light brown/tan granuals coming out of what I thought was my spiney urchin's eye. Anyone have any idea what this is? Is he/she spawning? Here's a picture of my urchin, it's a little blurry. Thanks! <A...

Well that's the thing, I haven't found any empty shells. I have placed a few new shells I picked up for them in a craft store. One of the hermits abandoned his old shell and moved into the new one.

I keep finding legs still attached to partial pieces of body from my scarlet reef hermits around both of my tanks. I thought that they might be fighting, any ideas with what's going on? One tank is a reef tank and it has blue-legged hermits and emeralds. The other tank just has live sand and...

Petland Discounts in the northeast and in Florida has a special running on a 55 gallon tank with a stand. The combo for both is $90 bucks--that's where I got mine back in late june and they are still running the special. That's the cheapest I've seen it anywhere, including *****. I don't know...

That's exactly what they have, that is, pastel green masses of eggs. One is carrying a lot more than the other. Is it worth while trying to try and hatch the eggs? Say for my other tank.

I think my scarlet cleaner shrimps are carrying eggs. I have two of them and underneath their tails, on the bottom, they look like they have hundreds of little eggs. Does anyone know the breeding habits of these creatures? Do both shrimp carry the eggs? Should I put them in a containment area? I...

Okay will do. How do you soak fish food in garlic?

Help I think my powder blue tang has developed Ick. Today I noticed white spots that looks like someone sprinkled some salt on him. I have a 55 gallon tank with live rock, a couple anemones, some other fish, some shrimp and crabs. What should I do for treatment?I also have a 30 gallon hex which...

Thanks everyone. I've been watching the tank carefully at night to make sure I have no unwanted visitors. What makes my situation wierd is that my last remaining starfish (a brittle) is completely fine. Though, he's pretty good at hiding out. The two that died were both serpants, one red, the...