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My tank has started to be over run by this green slim algae that seems to be covering all the sand. Its gotten to the point where its so thick you can't even see the sand. For some reason though, my blue leg hermit crabs won't eat this stuff and I would appreciate if you could name somthing that...

I'm interested in purchasing a Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp but I'm worried that he may eat my Hermit Crabs. Will he and what do these shrimp eat.

How old is your tank and what kind of water do you use?

The brown algae is very normal in a new tank and as long as your clean up crew is doing there job you got nothing to worry about. Although I would recomend either using RO water or Distilled or Dieonized simply because your tap water will have lots of phospherates as well as other minerals which...

That happens all the time to mine, water drips down the front of the tank and goes into the crack between the glass and trim. So when it evapotaes you see the salt creep.

What kind of water did you put in your tank? (RO, tap, etc. )

Some ways that I've heard of that you could try to remove them are by - Using aquarium traps sold for that purpose, you'd put a piece of fish meat, or something similar in one of those and that should do the trick. -Other wise you could always remove the rock and put it in a buket of a much...

Waters temp. 81 F

The lights are two months old, but the ones before that were 1.5 years, I know I'm suppose to change them every 8 months So could the coral browning be an after effect of the over burt bulbs?

I've had my tank set up for about two years now and I've noticed that over the past year my colony of mushroom coral has went from green to brown. I believe its a member of the genus Rhodactis, common name: Tonga blue mushroom. The coral is currently in a 40 gallon breeder at mid depth with two...

My aquarium has been set up for about a 1 year now and recently I've been noticing these small cotton ball like items invading my sump. The largest are about 1 cm in diameter, as well as fuzzy with an off white color. They also have what appears to be a mouth like hole with stuff coming out of...