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I don't know how it will be in your area, but when we set up our tank we used tap water. The amounts of algae we had to fight for months was sickening. I went to a great lfs and he explained the benefits of R.O. water to me and didn't even try to sell me his equipment but instead showed me a...

I didn't read the entire thread, but I will say that I did add a background to ours. It is one of the kind you attach to the back. Now i don't even get to see it as the rock and corraline growth has completely hidden it.

Someone blew a dandelion into your tank? I hope it is the larval stage of featherdusters and not hydroids as that could be bad for your horses.

I agree with the hydroids. watch out for them as they sting fish!

just kidding!

Oh man........... you're screwed now you are going to have thousands of them!!!!!!!!

Mine hide every time they molt. I hope yours is ok.

I really enjoy the ones I have. I have a white pincushion and 2 pencil as well as 2 hitchiker urchins. I highly recommend them. If you are worried about things being knocked over the pencils, which are housed in my smaller tanks never seem to knock things over.

Originally Posted by retired I bought one from saltwaterfish.com and it never opened. They gave me credit for it. i have one now and it opens especially for food. from the reading i've done they need a strong current. I shutoff my power heads today and put some food around it and it's totally...

A lot of people use refugiums. It took me a while, but I bought a small hang on back refugium, got some chateo from a local reefer, and let it go. I now have a decent population in my tank as well as my fuge. I have a target mandarin, and after the research I did I found I really needed a...

I agree with hermits, and our pistol shrimp does a great job of getting any meaty leftovers for himself.

Cool thread and great pictures. I hope to see this updated often as I have always been curious about the basket starfish. I wish you great luck with yours.

Originally Posted by sepulatian Does they look like this? They are great cleaners of glass, rock, and sand. They are, indeed, called super nassarius snails and are Tonga. That is exactly what it is, and I do highly recommend them! Btw I really enjoy watching them when I feed the tank, it is...

Renogaw, remember me telling you in p.m. that I wanted one for our 10 gallon tank. Well, today I was quite lucky and came across a N. Wennarae, which is what I told you I would probably end up with. Someone sent one to our LFS in place of a pistol shrimp and I walked out of there with a new...

I clean ours everytime I do a water change which is every 2 weeks or sometimes I get lazy and it happens after 3 weeks.

Haha funny topic, I have a trap in our tank right now to get rid of one that has been nipping polyps and harassing the other fish forever. He is beautiful and is one of our fish that has actually been named, but the cost of corals vs. the cost of a damsel is just not worth it to us anymore.

I have regular nassarius snails and then I went to my lfs and they sold me some they called super nassarius snails. I have tried to do a little research on them and I think they are a Tongan species. They are much larger then the regular nassarius snails and have a bright white foot with a...

Hard to say, but if you have hermits let them feast if it is dead. It won't take long for them to pick it clean.

I have 3 that I have bought and 2 that came as hitchikers. I have noticed I don't need to do anything for them. They scavenge the algaes and really seem to love eating the Coraline algae. I have 2 pencil urchins, 2 pincushions, and one that I think is a rock boring urchin, don't know the...

That makes me wish I lived near the coast, I would love to have a native and natural tank. Good luck with yours.