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I noticed yesterday that my emerald crab is missing about half of the prehensile portion of his larger claw. He didn't seem to be particularly bothered by this, he was just going about his business and scraping algae with his good claw. I guess I'm more worried about it than he is! How could...

I'm surprised no one's started this thread yet. What's everyone's opinion of her reinstated 45-day jail sentence? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It's about time that little snot was held accountable for her actions.

I have 2 juvenile false percs and one of them has been seen "kissing" a couple of my mushrooms on the mouth. There's about 3 different colors of shrooms on this one rock, but she only bothers the green ones. They're just plain 'shrooms, nothing fuzzy, frilly, or fancy. She will hover an inch...

About a month ago I bought a blue-spotted sea hare to help with my various algae infestations. Within 48 hours it was dead. I took it back to LFS (gotta love their livestock guarantee!) with a water sample. After they determined my water to be fine, they told me there would be one in the next...

I was given this blue shroom a week ago. It didn't look very happy when I got it, and since it wasn't attached to anything, it's spent the past week in a bridal veil cage, which I'm sure thrilled it to no end, but did manage to attach to some small rubble. When I took it out, I thought it may...

This clear gelatinous object with red flecks in it made an appearance this morning in my tank! It sways with the current, but other than that it's stationary. My goby swam near it and hit it a couple times with his tail, and the blob neither recoiled nor swallowed my goby whole (thankfully!)...

My boyfriend and I wandered over to the Phoenix Zoo one afternoon after a Spring Training baseball game. They have a new hands-on exhibit called Sting Ray Bay that's only here during the cooler months. Ok, so it's not my tank and not my best photography effort (maybe because of the beers I had...

I have a baby clownfish that has gone back into the filter area twice in the past week (and I've only had him for a week and a half). Once I found him in the carbon filter compartment (he was pretty traumatized over that ordeal), but today I found him in the grated tray over the bioballs...

This morning I found my twinspot (4WD) goby floating at the top of the tank. Of course, I figured he was dead until I noticed his gills and fins were moving. He was breathing normally and not trying to get air from the surface. I turned on the actinics so I could watch him a little better...

The boyfriend spent the day watching college basketball (damn you, March Madness!), so I entertained myself by taking pics of my tank. It was either that or doing laundry! Comments and constructive criticism on the photography or critters is welcomed.

Over the past couple of days I've noticed a couple of my polyps turning brown. Any ideas? Also I brought home a new mushroom rock last night. All were open in the store, but now that I have it here, there's one that is keeping one side shut. Is it just slow to acclimate or could there be a...

Picked up this lovely critter yesterday at LFS. It was labeled as just a red blasto. I googled pics of blastos today because I hadn't seen one exactly like this one before and I wanted to know what it's common name is. I only found one pic of this type and they had called it a Watermelon...

I have a Four Wheel Drive (Twinspot) Goby that burrowed under one rock for a few weeks, then burrowed under another and divided his time between his two homes--spending a night or two in one place, spending the next night or two in the other, etc. Yesterday he decided on another piece of real...

My bf and I are planning a trip to Napa Valley this summer (probably in July) and would like to go to Monterey Bay Aquarium, too. Is the Aquarium a one-day thing, or is there enough to see and do there to take up two days? Also, any recommendations for planning this trip, or things to...

I picked up a ric today at lfs that appears to be in the middle of/at the end of the splitting process. What is the average amount of time one of these takes to split? Also, this frag was sitting in a cup with others and some rubble. It has grabbed onto a couple of pieces, but I would like to...

I noticed small rust-colored type splotches on my mushrooms when I got them, and I just figured they were part of the mushroom's coloring. Now I'm noticing that these little things are moving around. I haven't noticed them on anything else in the tank, but I have noticed that when there's...

I'm in the market for a new camera. My Samsung is headed for the garbage--it eats batteries (the non-rechargeable, hard to find, have to special order kind). Soooooo, I'm just wondering...what cameras are you people using to get the fabulous pics I've seen on this forum? Preferably ones under...

When I bought this shroom rock I was told it was a green hairy mushroom (it did look kinda greenish near the center under the lights in lfs). When I got it home most of them looked more of a reddish color with rust colored splotches, some of them have a dark blue tint in some areas, and a...

I brought home a Twinspot or Four Wheel Drive Goby yesterday, and I've been reading conflicting information/opinions about these little guys. Mostly what I'm hearing is that they're difficult and that they're likely to starve in a small tank. Others say theirs have been happy and healthy in a...

A small white snail hitchhiked on some LR I recently brought into my tank. Because my camera is really crappy, I was unable to get a clear pic of it, but I did find a pic online that looks very similar to said snail. I have not seen it from underneath, so I don't know what color it's body is...