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Hopefully this picture works. It's not weighted down by anything so it tends to float to the back corner of the tank.

It happened around when I was trying to change my system and get it off of HOB filters and put in a refugium. It may have been the new flow or or the stress from all that. I'll try and get a picture up later today.

So a couple of months ago I set up a 2.5 gallon tank at my office at work. I was looking through my 20 gallon reef setup for some coral anc inverts to drop in when I came across what looked like a head of my frogspawn that had come of the stalk. I figured if I left it in my big tank it would...

Hey everyone. I'm gonna start up a 2.5 gallon with a few small inverts and LPS's. I know, a tank that small is hard to handle because evaporation can cause huge swings in water quality and salinity. My question is about lighting. I have a balast for a 9 watt PC. Should that be enough light...

Question! So I got a pistol shrimp a while back and he's hanging out with my little goby. They're pretty cool together but they're not all that dynamic in my tank. I'd like to get a couple of pepperments or maybe a coral banded shrimp but I'm a little worried that thi pistol shrimp will...

Ok, so it could be the water temp. Is there anything else I mentioned that could be causeing this?

Hey everyone. I have a 20 gallon tank that's been up and running for around 8 months now. It's got a small frog spawn, galaxia, combat coral, some kind of encrusting SPS, and some softies. For the most part, everything seems healthy, but they arn't as colorfull as they were when I first got...

Cool. I looked it up and it sounds like that's what it is. Thanks for the help.

Does anyone know what this is? I saw it on the sand in my tank and sucked it up in an eye dropper. The color scheme is the same as my frog spawn, bright green with purple-ish tips, but it's tiny and has no skeleton. Any ideas?

So I've got a 20 gallon thats been up and running for over six months. In the last month or so I've been getting this brown, stringy, slimey looking algea accumulating on surfaces with the highest flow. Any idea what kind of algea that is and what will get rid of it. My CUC is just snails...

Some of that aptasia killer like Joe's Juice you inject straight into the aptasia's gut to kill it. I would think anything that directed wouldn't hurt the sorounding polyps.

sweet, its alive and chillin with the goby under a rock in the center of my tank. hazaa

Got a goby today. I think he's still getting the lay of the land before he stakes his claim. Hopefully he'll find Cletus (the hopefully not dead pistol shrimp) and hole up with him. I think what I'm looking for is like a on this thread is like a comformation that there's like a 25%ish chance...

So i got a pistol shrimp about three weeks ago. i aclimated it for about two hours'ish and then let it go into my ten gallon tank, at which point it burrowed and i havn't seen it sense, nore have i heard any snaps or whatever. I did see a random pile of sand that was a darker color than the...

Will peppermint shrimp eat most pest anemones or just aptasia. something hitch hiked in (i think) on some cheto i got the otherday. it looks kind of like aptasia but shorter and with more tenticles. so far it's restricted to my fuge, which i dont plan to worrie about, (might actually be a...

well, i cut my serpant and one of my brittle stars in half about a week ago. so far as i can tell, all four halves are still alive and moving around, and whenever i see one, it seems as though they are healing. so thats pretty awsome.

do both halves usually die, or does one typically struggle on?

we had one of these guys at the lsf i used to work for until a tube anemone killed it. Ours was close to a foot in diameter in a dull grayish-bluish color, covered in centimeter long little projections and really thin, much like the common elephant ear. on the upshot, when we fed it, even just...

Anyone ever cut their starfish in half to get two? I was saying how I had done it before to someone at an LSF and a guy said that he read that no ones ever documented cutting one in half and getting two. But that sounds wrong to me. Input?

If you get sand anywhere other than the store you're running the risk of getting contaminants that could [hr] with your system. However, the stuff at the beach is free. I got beach sand when I started my 40 gallon and raised many happy fish, an octopus, and a good bit of coral. It could go...