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i was accidently shipped two mystery wrasses and now i have a prediciment. can two surevive together in a 55 or will they fight? more importantlyim not famialiar with mystery wrasse husbandry, does anyone know the signs of mystery wrasses forming a pair?

i spilled some Dr G's nitrate remover granules into the sump with the pump on. I now have the granules in my DT, i got out as many as i could but i know theres some in there. hoe screwed am i?

i was glueing soem frags on a shell covered in coraline and when i put it back in the tank i noticed it was a much more florescent pink and has yet to return to its normal color. did i kill the coraline?

my LFS is moving and gave me some super mini frags that had propagated throughout one of thier tanks. i'm aware of the feeding requirements but was wonderign if anyone had suggestions on how to feed a super tiny frag? target it.. or pull it out and put it in a phyto mix?

can someone please explain PAR to me, and why its suddenly being quoted as the new standard for lighting in a significatn amount of lighting threads. From my understanding of PAR froma quick google search it looks like it specifically in reference to the sepctrum and how that spectrum will...

im lucky enough to live in an area surrounded by water and soem pristine beaches. i had a thought the other day about wild copepod colletion: is there any reason it couldnt be done? take water from a known clean area, possibly at low tide and around seagrass beds or tidal pools and place that...

so i was thinking that we should complile a list of fish that can be ick resistant somewhere. i think it would be cool to have a list of all the fish that either dont get ick or are just more resistant to it then others. ok go.

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sooo... i acclimated a new fish, and during that period i typically leave the lights off for two days, when i kicked them back on, one of the heads of my newest(like 3 months old) torch had disinigrated. my levels are perfect and i have another torch that is about 9 months old on the other side...

w00t, just picked up a black cap juvi male changing for $20, im totally stoked. its liek christmas!!!!

ive had a local scorpion fish for several months now. hes been fed mostly frozen silverside with the occasional live feeder when in stock at my LFS. recently hes been spittign out the silversides and i dont know why. his behaviour hasnt changed and he still has an appitite becuase hes taking the...

about a year ago i picked up a pink spagetti eeel, i put it in the tank and never say it again... until last week! i was moving soem LR aroun and he poked his head out and then went right back in the substrate. its just a great experience to have something like, be able to support it and then...

im looking to pick up soem new coral and would liek suggestion for lps or softies. difficulty: my poma angel will nip and anything fleshy, ie. candy cane coral, i even had to get rid of my gren carpet becuase of it.

i ran accross some some green cabbage coral at the LFS and picked up a chunk for farily cheap. i cant seem to find much about it out there, anyoen have experience with this. currently im treating it just like my reg ol brown cabbage.

ok wierd question.. unfortunatetly i dont have pics: this is my first acro, ive had it about a month. today my sandbed got stirrup a little as i was removing a dead fish, within an hour i noticed 3 or 4 polyps were ejecting white mucusy stuff. My first reaction was RTN becuase it looked like...

does anyone have experience with these? ive grown reds for about a year now and i was contemplating addign a few whites to the mix. has anyone tried?

so after some careful research ive decided to get an electric flam scallop. my plan is to target feed rod food twice a week and pure phyto once a week. i am runin g a DSB and the tank has been up since march of 08. thats the best can gather from the iterwebs. any thoughts?

first things first; 55 reef tank, params all in check as usual stock list: poma angel; flasher wrasse, blue chromis, half black mimic tang I'be had the blenny for just under 6 months now. after his acclimation he swam around normall the top half of the tank staying mostly yellow and shaddign a...

ok, so i was placing my candy cane in the tank and got a little excited and kind of scrapped it against the rock i was placing it in. the top of the heads didnt get damaged but part of the flesh above the calcified part got scraped white. Do I need to worry? anything i can do to help it?