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I don't know what to make of this thing. With better lighting this has been growing pretty good over the past 6 months. Not the watermellons, I'm looking for an ID on that red cabbage looking thing.

Free to a good home. He's picking on one of my green chromis & I've had it, so If you want him and can come pick him up, He's yours! Otherwise he's going to the LFS this weekend. Currently he's in my 36gal and just arround 2" long. Due to long work hours and the fact I won't ship him it'll be a...

Trying to figure out if I'm looking at atapsia or some other type of anemone before placing it in the tank...

I worked a rather long weekend and finally I come home to see my new zoa frags were a rather nice full service menu. The closest thing was a Nass. snail. No spiders, no nudi's, no irritants, etc... just the Nass. Can someone tell me..What gives here?

My 36gal. has been re-established now for almost a year and I just have that fear of taking a big loss again like I did once before. However as they say, when you fall off the horse... Anyway I'm looking for some ideas here on easy beginner corals. I'm thinking some shrooms and pulsating zenia...

How does one go about keeping a colony from filling with air? I came home to this colony floating around the tank. No air bubbles enter the tank yet it's constantly letting out air bubbles. I managed to get a lot of air out of it, took the wife out and 4 hours later came home to see the thing...

I just scored a new 75gal. tank and it came with everything the guy had. Stand, filters, etc... The tank was setup as a freshwater bass tank that over time I'll convert to saltwater. It's been in his storage for 2 years so I had to do obvious cleaning. Now the filters were used for the...

About 11 years ago my brother-in-law gave me this tank stocked, and that's where my hobby began. Things went fine as a FOWLR, but being uneducated in SW, I went out and bought, bought and bought. Literally thousands of dollars to end up with problem after problem after problem. Mainly all due to...

I bought new lights online and would just like to know some opinions on what I can keep as far as coral with them. It's an upgrade for me from the basic florescent bulbs you get with a typical pet-store hood. I'm thinking It'll need stronger bulbs, but I don't know $60 was hard to pass up. The...

I was at the LFS today and picked up this nice little conch along with my turbo snails. I didn't see much info about conch's here so I figured I'd ask as well. Jumping the gun on conch's.. no I've done reading and such and wanted one for a long time, they are just "technically" not allowed in...

I'm looking into better filtration for my tank and I'm reading wet/dry this, sump that, hangon this, Fuge that. I can gather the feel of the hang-on, but what is the difference between the wet/dry, a sump and a refugium? The reason I'm asking is because even after all this time I've not bothered...

Is this possible? Here's what I'm thinking. I have an old style hang on overflow filter that has a built in skimmer. I'm not sure if it even works properly, but if it does can I simply add macro/mangrove and use this as a temporary fuge? It should hold at least 1lb of macro with ample room to...

My test kit showed everything as normal within ranges, but 2 fish died and the Nass. snails stay towards the top and don't do much, sooo... I bought another new test kit yesterday did some basic tests, and they were quite surprising... The only problem though is the kit didn't come with the...

I have the old school lighting. Yes the basic florescent bulbs..lol I'd like to have some kind of coral in the future, however I know that the bulbs I have probably won't cut it. My question is as follows... Without spending hundreds on a new strip, what bulbs will do the trick? Currently I have...

I thought I was losing my mind w/ this, but after figuring out the cause behind the death of 2 damsels and reading a little here and there I do believe I know the prime suspect! I have a monster bristle worm! Last night I found one of my yellow fin damsels half dead and giving up. 2 days prior...

Figured I'd show the transformation stages of my tank in the past 3 years, All comments are expected and appreciated regardless of negativity. Just realize that at one point I basically gave up and lost all hope. Here we see pictures 3 years ago after 2 weeks w/o power from storms. Pictures are...

I've 5 damsels in my 36gal. now (1 died) but I'm wondering what kind of inverts. I can place? I'd like to see some shrimp, but being I know little about the damsels diet except for the basics, I figured I'd ask the experts here what else could be possible? I will and DO need a cleanup crew of...

How will a black light affect a tank as a whole? (Fish, corals, etc...) I've honestly never seen this asked and out of curiosity I just had to ask.

Hello everyone, It's been quite a while, but once again I'm back and trying to see what I can accomplish my second time around. As I said it's been a long time and unfortunately I was never able to get that 125gal. set-up and running due to moving into a smaller place. Yes I ended up selling my...

I've done this for years, but decided to post here because I realized I didn't know WTF I was doing aside from wasting a lot of money. Anyway I'm going to basically start over possibly using some of what I have allready. This time, I'm going to stop assuming and get it right by asking questions...