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I have 2 large feather dusters that were always open when I first got them, but now I have only seen them open when the lights are out and even then it's a rare event. I know that they are still alive and they haven't ever dumped their crowns. All of my fish and corals are doing fine, and...

The Rio pump on my CPR bak-pak finally kicked and I have heard that it may be replaced with a Maxi-Jet 1200 if I buy some venturi conversion kit. Does anyone know where I can get one of these kits and if the skimmer will still work as well? Thanks :p

Just got to vent a little. I came home last week to find Lefty, my CBS eating my blood shrimp <img src="graemlins//eek.gif" border="0" alt="[eek]" /> Normally I wouldn't have mixed the 2, but my hippo came down with a mild case of ich when I moved him from my old tank to my new one (must...

I bought some single mushrooms to save $$ and they never attached where I wanted before floating off somewhere else. I rounded them up, put them in a specimen jar with some rubble and placed it all in a knee-high stocking. Do I need to directly squirt some food into the jar so that they don't...

Do you turn your skimmer off when you feed with selcon/zoe/soaked foods? and for how long do you leave it off? thanks! go UCONN women!! gotta cheer for my ladies who are playing right now! :cool:

I just have to give a big thumbs up to my favorite LFS guy, Justin. He sold me two single mushroom polyps, a hairy and a blue, for $6 each (I'm too cheap to buy the whole colony and I figure if they are happy, they will multiply) and threw in a few infant cerith snails with the 3 adults that I...

Which do you prefer as vitamin additive? I would like to help my tangs avoid HLLE. They already get lots of seaweed selects.

Some of them are nice and wide open, but some of them have closed up at the top. Could they be getting too much current, not enough light, too much light (hard to believe with my single 40W NO)? I am upgrading to 440W VHO as soon as I finish varnishing my canopy this weekend.

Do you turn off your powerheads/filters so that the food doesn't get blown away from them? <img src="graemlins//confused.gif" border="0" alt="[confused]" />

I'm assuming the LFS in CT question was aimed at me. I usually go to Fin & Feather in Groton, it's right on my way home from work. They have been upgrading their reef systems and have some very nice fish and corals, also LR & LS, but they are on the expensive side. They are very knowlageable...

If you aren't sick of hearing about them by now. I know that Cerith snails will breed in our tanks, but what about others? I have Astrea, Cerith, Nerite and Trochus (I think, hehe). Also, I haven't seen much on the BB about the Nerite snails, anyone know much about them? All I know is that I...

We are setting up my 440W VHO lights, 2 actinics and 2 50/50, and I would like suggestions on if I should alternate them or have 1 set in the front of the tank and 1 set in the back? Thanks! <img src="graemlins//confused.gif" border="0" alt="[confused]" />

My husband is making my new canopy <img src="graemlins//angel.gif" border="0" alt="[angel]" /> but we can't figure out the best way to mount the endcaps. We have the hellolights 4 lamp harness kit. Do we need to get some L-brackets to mount these and how did you thread the wires through...

The crab has black front claws and has fuzzy-looking back legs. Size is maybe 1 inch tip to tip. I haven't been able to see his carapace yet - he hides in the rock and just extends his claws to grab food at feeding time. Any clues? I don't have a digital camera so I can't post a pic.

A small, dark crab <img src="graemlins//eek.gif" border="0" alt="[eek]" /> Still haven't seen enough to give a good description but I will keep trying. he's only ~1" across, including legs and appears to be a dark color. I had only seen a glimpse of his claws and found a molt up until this...

I'm moving everyone from an old FO tank to a new FOWLR and almost every single one of my crabs and shrimp has molted within days of making the move. Does anyone know why this happens? BTW, all water parameters are great and the critters love their new home <img src="graemlins//silly.gif"...

I just received my 4 lamp VHO harness (hello lights) and electronic ballast :cool: and I wanted to know where everybody mounts their ballast. They say to mount it above the level of the tank, but after doing a search here, it sounds like many of you have them mounted either on or in your...

I have had a FO tank for many years and never seen ich on any of my fish. Now, I have set up a new FOWLR/dsb and am in the process of slowly moving my fish from the old tank to the new one (1 fish every 2 weeks). I moved my hippo tang (I have had him for over a year) last weekend and this...

I'm about to upgrade to VHO, 4 bulbs, URI. I know that color can be a personal choice, but I haven't seen many tanks to know what I would like. Any suggestions on the combination of bulbs that I should get? 2 actinic and 2 10,000K? I don't plan on jumping into corals yet (although my LR has...

I know this sounds strange, but has anyone ever seen their coral banded shrimp acting like a cleaner? My husband and I both saw my csb "cleaning" my valentini puffer yesterday! There was no sign of aggression on either part - I have had both of them for a long time. Were we seeing things?