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I'm attaching a picture of a trio of crabs that arrived with my live rock, and am hoping to get some info to identify them. The largest is about 1.5 inches and very compressed dorso-ventrally; very good for sliding into cracks in the rock, as I found out. They each have one pair of long...

I'm looking for a chiller that will provide about a 10-degree pull down in a 10g nano, so I can work with cold water species. I've heard about a chiller made by IceProbe, but am not sure if the tanks will need to be pre-drilled. Ideally I'd like something that wouldn't need a ready-made hole...

I have a 2-bulb hood for a nano set up. Well I took the hood apart to clean it, and when I reassembled it, I realized that I'd forgotten which end the ballast was supposed to be at. Does it matter if the fan on the hood is next to the ballast end of the bulb, or the rounded tip of the bulb...

I have a pencil urchin in my 75g. This morning I noticed that it had its feet around a small asterias star, and had it close to its mouth. When I walked by the tank a few hours later, the urchin had a bit of the star's arm close to its mouth. Was my urchin actually eating the star?? I...

Does anyone have a suggestion about a housing for 2 32W, 20" bulbs? I've been looking around at a couple of on-line places as well as my lfs, and I see housings for 1 bulb of this size, but not 2. This would be for a 10g nano tank with soft corals, fish and inverts. :help:

Silly question, but here it is anyway: Do I want coralline algae growing in my tank? Why or why not? I feel like I should know the answer, seeing as I take care of a 75g, but I don't. :help:

I've brown cloudy water in my 75g and don't know what to do about it. I think it's due to diatoms, and I'm doing 15g water changes every 3 days or so, to no avail. The problem has been going on for about a month. & the only thing I remember adding before the explosion is a piece of live rock...

I am getting more and more frustrated with my Prizm skimmer. It seemed to be working fine for the past 18 months and now it has issues with not keeping suction. I've taken it down and cleaned it out, I keep up with the collection cup, but that doesn't seem to help. I'll start it up, and it'll...

I have an Ebo (Eheim)-Jager 75 W heater, model LZ 75, but I have no idea if it is indeed a submersible heater or not. It's green, about 10" from tip to tip, and has a line on it saying "minimum water level." ...Which makes me think that it might be a submersible, but then again, it has the...

Does anyone here use Proline salt mix? I think it's an Aquatic Eco product. I ask because I've been using it for a couple weeks and my pH is high (8.9) but my hardness is low (2-3). Which is a change from before I started using this mix, pH = 8.3 & hardness = 7.

I have a 55 gallon on a stand and I'd like to replace the rubbermaid container that is now working as the sump. But the footprint of the stand is really narrow. A 10-g can barely fit into the sump space, width-wise. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can put down there? Or should I...

I have a tank that is in the midst of being moved/dismantled. One of the inhabitants still present is a pencil urchin (or what looks like a pencil urchin: blunt spines, reddish color, 3.5' diameter). I also have another tank already set up (probably about 2 yrs old). Can I just move the...

I have a couple of tanks and I am having trouble deciphering which one is glass (if either) and which one is acrylic (again, if either). Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can do this? Or if it would be easier to point me towards a previous thread that I've overlooked, that would be...