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i had at least 7 mantis shrimp hitchhike in on my lr... i found 5 of them in the box that my rock was shipped in... 2 made it into the tank about 8 months ago... i got one out within the first few weeks... i just got the last one a few mins ago... he has been digging under one of my rocks on...

this crab came a a hitchhiker with my rock and made it through the cycle... i like it and it doesnt seem to bother the corals... i have seen it pick at some shrooms once and my brown star polyps but i think it was grabbing something out of them because they didnt look harmed... it does, however...

i have a coralife 50gpd rodi... a couple questions... my tds are up to about 29 right now (was about 9 when it was new... when is it time to change out the filters??? what filters do i need to change right now??? on another note, i run hot water through it because it filters a lot faster...

long time no posts.... I haven't been on here for awhile and thought i would share what my tank looks like (since a lot of you deserve credit for my success).... a couple fts and then some partial shots... sorry the pics aren't the best but what do you think...

i have a branching hammer that has several dead heads on it... if i cut off some tissue from one of the alive heads and rubber band it to the dead one will it attach and spread??? i know when people frag these that do so by cutting through the skeleton so i doubt this will work but thought i...

i was trying to move a shroom that was getting a little too much shade and not opening completely... when i tried moving it with piece that it was attached too must have been stuck so i pulled it off... oops... but since it was free i though i might as well chop it in half so i did.. both halves...

its not growing... i feed DT's phytoplankton once a week and marine snow (that i ordered off here) twice a week... i dont feed as much as directed because it seems like it would be putting way too much into the tank at one time (190g system) so about 2oz of DT's and 9.5 capfuls of the snow every...

i just saw this thing for the first time... cant get a pic but it looks like an emerald but is bright red.... where is it???? thanks

i was bored and tried to get some decent pics... what do you think???

a couple months ago i noticed a little (about half the size of a dime) urchin on the front of my tank... since then i have noticed more and more of them and they are getting huge... the are all black in color and have grown A LOT... i have about 6 that are 1+" in diameter (the biggest around...

i got my blue hippo and yellow tangs yesterday... i wanted to get a tiny hippo but was worried the clowns would be mean to it since they have been in the tank about a month so i went with the small (which is still slightly smaller than the clowns)... when i first added them the hippo hid for the...

i posted crappy pics of these things awhile back and was told they were called turkey wings and that they were embedded in the rocks... one has climbed up the back of my tank and is attached to the bulkhead, weird because i thought they couldnt move and then it was there all of a sudden...

i bought a big hairy mushroom the awhile back at a lfs (about 150 miles away so not that local i guess)... i was in the back of the tank so you couldnt see the whole rock, when the guy pulled it out there was a toadstool growing on the same rock, and not wanting to pay an extra 50$ for it he...

i have had my branching hammer for a little over a week now and it have been doing fine... today one of the heads isnt opening... going to do my weekly WC now (about 15%) but i wouldnt think it is due to water quality since the other 2 heads are wide open... what could cause this???

what color of seaweed do i want for a yellow and hippo tang? i see this site has green, purple, and red...

i want to add a yellow tang and a blue hippo... i have read two competing things, one: since tangs can be aggressive with each other, add them together... two: add fish slowly (like one a month) what do i do???

this seems to be a fairly easy hard coral to frag... Im not really doing this because i want more but would like to get rid of the dead parts... from what i have read i think the red lines are safe places to cut and should hit any soft tissue but I am worried about the yellow ones... this...

i am to that point now that this hobby is a lot of fun... i starting building my tank about 5 months ago and have had it set up about 3... i have a couple clowns, a lawnmower, CUC, and some easier corals... everything is doing great and my computer chair is in front of the tank most of the time...

this may be a little late in the game to be asking but i notice that their fish are list as reef safe or not and coral safe and not... most are either yes or no in both cases but some are not... what is the difference???

on Saturday i went on a trip to look at lfs about 150 miles from home because the ones around me are WAY over priced and all of there stuff looks like it is dying... i was looking at xenia at one of the places and the guy didnt have prices listed for anything so I asked the guy working there who...