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Hello all. I have a two year old 70 gallon reef tank and I need to replace the filter and possibly the skimmer. (We had a power surge that damaged some equipment. Fortunately, the tank lights weren't on at the time.) The tank is not drilled and I'm not much of a DIY type person. I've been...

You never know with the clown fish, but they've co-existed peacfully in the tank for about a year. My little green torso still looks healthy and strong today. I spot fed him some live blood worms but he wasn't all that interested. Poor guy.

I've had my starfish for about a year and he's always been active and healthy. When I woke up this morning, his arms were gone. He's basically a torso, albeit a healthy looking torso. I have a 55 gallon reef tank with very good and stable water parameters, seven fish, basic clean up crew, and...

40 but after reading all the other ages, I feel about 82.

Every ten days or so, I give it a little something such as frozen mysis, or live blood worms, or a little piece of shrimp. Even when I don't feed it, the clowns take it bits of whatever I feed them.

I purchase a small sebae anemone about six months ago and after a difficult 2 month acclimation, he has finally found his home and he's been thriving. He went from bright white with short, nobby, purple-tipped tentacles to dark beige with long, flowing, purple-tipped tentacles and he looks...

I see no sign of the shell this morning but the anenome looks quite a bit perkier. Thanks guys.

Help. I just got back from dinner and looked in on the tank. My purple tipped sebae anemone looks very very still and it would appear that either a smallish hermit crab has crawled into its mouth (just the pointy tip is sticking out) or the anemone is trying to eat a hermit crab, shell and...

I use super cheap sandwich bags.

You'll get there.

Hmmmm. I'm beginning to think tanks are slightly evil. I have gotten really good at fibbing to my husband. Ever time he says something along the lines of "Wow, that's a pretty coral, how much does something like that run?" I inevitably divide the real answer by two (and in some cases...

The smell was really strong in the water that shipped with the mushrooms and it seems to have taken over the tank water. One other interesting bit - my clowns absolutely love these 'shrooms. They've been bonding with them all day, doing that odd little ritual where they bite the rock really...

Greetings, I received a new lavender mushroom by overnight delivery yesterday, took it through a two hour acclimation, and placed it in a nice clean area in my tank. It smells bad. Really bad. Like a-gallon-of-sour-milk-settled-deep-in-wet-carpeting bad. (Those of you with kids know what I...

I will give it a try. Many thanks!

I just got back from the LFS and am armed with algae + clip, live brine, live blood worms (ew), frozen "finicky eater" squares, and garlic sauce. Blood worms don't like garlic sauce...

Thanks!

I have a fairly peaceful tank. Clarkii clowns (2), royal gramma, coral beauty, orchid dottyback, and the butterfly. No one fights. No one even nips. There are also 3 emerald crabs, 4 peppermint shrimp, and a bunch of hermit crabs and snails. I tried dividing the tank by feeding on one...

I've had freshwater fishies for years but am new to the saltwater variety. I have a six month old 55 gallon reef tank (lots of live rock and sand and 7 fish) and I recently introduced a rather docile copperband butterfly. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to want to eat with the other fish. She...

Will do. Thanks and happy new year!

It looks like there's a small scratch on her side. She's acting fairly normally especially when her dinner of live brine was served...