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See Picture of tank below.. (25 gal) This critter has a wing span close to 3 inches.. the longest fingers are 2" long.. It just kind of grew from the frag I bought almost a year ago! From this frag grew several things, I suspected they were aptasia and got the peppermint shrimp. It ate all the...

I've been told that this may be Aptasia? When this was smaller I bought a peppermint shrimp, but it never touched it?? Is this a strand of Aptasia? ThX

beaslbob - The macros are doing good (even growing a bit) I do have a 5 gallon that I could move some macro into if needed.. jedininja - Tank breakdown - 25 gallon.. Running a Power Compact smartlamp - 65 W and recently added (2) Allglass brand aquarium - 11 W mini flouresctents to light up...

I do have macro algae in the tank and added more 4-5 days ago. still seems to be getting worse.. Is it OK to kill the lights for a week?

I have a 25 gal tank thats been up for 6-8 weeks now.. All levels are normal (PH, alkalinity, Nitrite, Nitrate) Fish, Crabs, snails are all doing fine.. 10 days ago my water turned green over the weekend. Lights are on a timer for 8 hours a day; my water is more green than ever - you can't...

I do a 20% water change each month, replacing water with RO water. Mixing the Sea water myself. Running a Prizm Protein skimmer. Currently using an aqua pure water purifying filter in the Prizm. Thoughts?

When I first got the 65W lights I left them too long and grew a ton of algae on the sides of the tank. That was easy enough to remove and my water stayed clear. This time the algae appears to be in the water and is making it very cloudy.

I set up a timer for my 25 gal. tank. I have it scheduled to run for 12 hours then shut off. This morning my water looks VERY green! no algae on the tank walls, but the water looks green and cloudy... Recently I changed to a rotating powerhead. I am running a Power Compact 65W smartlamp.. I've...

I have a little 5 gallon which I am growing some Macro algae. Recently I added some gammarus amphipods, copepods and mysid shrimp.. I don't see them very often or hardly at all.. Is it possible that my hermit crab or peppermint shrimp might be eating my pods? (no fish in the tank)

I've found a hood online: 23" Aluminum Power Compact Light with 2 - 55 watt bulbs. It comes with 1x10000K white and 1xBlue Actinic bulbs. (You can pick from 50/50 (blue/10k white), 50/50 (red/10k white) or 50/50 (red/blue) if you'd rather have any of those bulbs. see attached pic.. Watt is less...

Currently Nitrite, Nitrate, PH, Alkalinity are all registering at ideal or safe levels. Amonia has dropped to less than .50 on the test kit I have. (down from 8.0+ at peak) Salinity is at 1.022 I started with a deep sandbed as well as using some live sand. I would like to add some coral so I...

I am 4+ weeks into cycling a 25 gallon tank and getting ready to get some better lighting.. (Trying to keep it inexpensive) I am considering getting a fixture from Home Depot and buying 2 full spectum bulbs.. is this sufficient? I was told that I absolutely needed to have actintic lighting...