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I received a pink tip bta about 2 months ago and it has never looked very pink. I am thinking that either i was sent a regular bta or it is not getting enough light since it is hiding under a cliff. I have 324w of T5 on a 55g tank. What do you all think?

Anyone know what these are? They look like cocoons with a little crown on one end.

My HOB skimmer has accumulated a little bit of algae on the top 4" or so where it is exposed to the lights. I was thinking about painting 3 sides with black paint to block the light. As long as I tape off all of the openings, does anyone think this would be a bad idea?

So I have had this horrible brown stringy algae in my tank for about a month or so. My trates stay a steady 0 and phosphates very near 0 (hard to tell on my API test). Nothing has changed recently in my tank and I have been stumped. Last night I think it finally hit me. I received one of those...

anyone got an ID on this?

So I woke up yesterday and had a fresh molt from one of my 2 skunk cleaners sitting front and center on the bottom of the tank. Looked around for about 10 minutes and did not find my other cleaner. It appears someone poached him just after he molted and my assumption is that it was my pistol...

Is this normal for brain coral or is mine trying to tell me that it is starving?

So my recent anemone addition seems to have attached itself to 1 of 2 nonporous that I had planned to remove and replace with LR. Would it be possible to remove the rock w/ anemone attached long enough to break it in half? maybe 5 minutes

I picked this dude up as a freebie with the order I got in yesterday. Not sure why I think it is so cool, but I figured I would share. I think this is the first good pic of anything I have taken.

I am getting a GTBA in tomorrow and read that I need to cover my powerhead intakes so it doesn't get sucked in while it is searching for a good spot. What should I be using? I see people are using "socks", but I am not sure what they are specifically referring to. Nylon stockings seem like they...

My clowns have something wrong with them and I am not sure whether it is ich or brooklynella. I looked at the picture thread and both seem like a possibilty, but whatever it is seems mild compared to the pics. Is there a tell tale sign to distinguish between them? None of my other fish show any...

Does anyone out there have any psuedochromis? I have a bicolor and he seems to be getting more aggressive. When I first got him he just defended his little cave, now it seems he has claimed about 1/3 of my 55g as his own. I caught it today chasing around my skunk cleaners and my yellow watchman...

Just found this guy this morning. I thought it was aiptasia at first, but then I saw that it was coming out of a tube. As usual, I only have a fuzzy pic.

I bought a calcium test today and found that I am low, about 320. I went back to the LFS and asked what they recommended. The guy sold me Reef Advantage powder over the Kent liquid. Has anyone else used this before? Any ideas why my weekly water changes wouldn't keep my calcium high enough? I...

I picked up a few heads of candy cane coral a couple days ago. They are opened up and seem to be doing good. Is it required to spot feed this guy or is it just done to make them grow faster?

Found this guy attached to the rubble of a frag I just bought. When I pulled it off it felt like it had a hard shell under the slimy exterior. My camera takes horrible macro pics, any ideas?

So after only 5 months I decided that my PC lights just aren't going to cut it. I am replacing my 130w PC with 324w T5. I read in some other posts that I should put a few layers of screen above the tank and slowly remove them to acclimate the tank to the new light. Should I also move my mushroom...

I haven't seen my yellow watchman in 2 days. Normally he guards the pistol shrimp burrow. Could the pistol have killed it? Anyone had this happen before?

I would like to get some input about how much to feed. Currently I feed about 1/2 a mysis cube a day, but I don't know if it is enough. When I put the mysis in everybody attacks it like they have never been fed in their lives. If I put a whole cube in, they seem to gorge themselves at first but...

I noticed this guy a few weeks ago. It is made up of a bunch "pods". There are about 3 pods that make up the center and then a semicircle of pods around it. In total it is about 1/4" diameter. It has been getting bigger since I noticed it, but not the size of the pods, just the number. I suspect...