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I was wonder if bristle worms will build tubes out of sand to hide in? I think I have seen a britsle worm in my tank (looks almost like an underwater meal worm, except smaller) and it resides around a tube which is made of sand. So I was just curious if there was a correlation and how is...

I have had my 6 gallon nano reef setup for about 6 weeks now and today I noticed coraline algae growing all over. I have had it growing on my filter output for about two weeks now, but not there are tons of small coraline spots growing all over the my equipment and I even found some on the...

I am going to start off with my tank description because it is more of the limiting factor than the inhabitants. I have a six gallon nano reef tank, with a 1.75 in live sand bed and about 10 pounds of live rock in it. Plus corals, snails,hermits, and a peppermint shrimp. I currently have a...

The only fish in my reef tank is a tomato clown and about a two weeks ago he had white patch on his top lip. It looks almost like it is a lose scale or something hang of. It went away for about five days and now its back. Could this be some kind of bacterial infection? and if so any...

I have been reading about a lot of people directly feeding their corals with phytoplankton and I was corious what types of corals should this be done for and how necessary is it?

I recently setup a mini reef and to to the small size I put only about a two inch layer of live sand down. Now that my tank is completing cycling the typically brown algae is beginning to grow, on the sand, as well as the rest of the tank. But I was wondering, will the sand return to its...

I was wondering if any body had any opinions about pink skunk clowns, and Saddleback clowns. I would like to add one of these to my small reef tank. It will be the only fish inhabitant. Please give me your input?

I have finally begun the purchasing of items for my new nano-reef tank. After about four months or so of researching I have decided to make the plung, however, I was originally planning on using a four inch dead sand bed, but in such a small tank that is a lot of space. So my question is...

I have been researching for a few months now and not many people have any good suggestion on nano filteration. I know must of the filteration comes from water changes, but I would like to have a little something extra. The main suggestion was a Skilter 400 because of its size and the skimming...

I am assembling and retrofit lighting setup for a five gallon nano-reef tank. My lighting setup is compossed of three 13 watt lights. One of which will be a blue actinic, the other two are the ones I am unsure of. I was planning on using two 6400K lights for the higher Kalvin rating, but I...

Form my last post small reef. I have done some research. I am going to go on ahead and take a plonge it NANO-reefing. And I would appreciate all the insight and critisism of all the readers. I am going to do a 5-7 gallon tank. I would like to do a dead sand bed with plenum-- seeded with...

I am getting ready to head out to college and I have to leave my current tank at home. I would like to do a small (small being the key word) reef tank while I am away. I will only do corals and clean up crew, for fish would be a big contributor to throwing my levels off. I still have a...

I just bought my first frogspawn the other day. For two days I have been watching it. Four of the five branches on it are opening up more, and the fifth one is staying shriveled up. Is there something worng or is this one still adjusting to the change?

I have currently become interested in the lion fish family. The particular lion I want is either a pygmy or a dwarf lion. And I would like some personal opinios from the board. I have a regular twenty gallon tank taht I am trying to do a mini reef in. Currently I have an emerald crab...