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I recently moved my livestock from my 75 gallon to my 180, everything went well, tank cycled perfectly, levels are perfect, then about a week after everything was in the water seemed a bit cloudy, I suspected a micro bubble issue because it wasn't that bad. The next few days the cloudiness...

For the last 6 years I've maintained my 75 gallon very well, I'm nearing the end of my 180 gallon build, nitrites are almost back to zero and I already have snails, crabs and micro stars thriving. I'm getting ready to add all my fish and coral and the only answer I get when I ask how much I can...

Theses little bastards are getting the best of me, I've been super gluing like crazy, blasting with boiling water and I'm losing the battle. Everyday I have to clean the mucus off my corals or they stay shriveled up and I fear will die. Does anyone have any info I have yet to come across to get...

i recently upgraded from T-5 lighting to HQI. since that change I've had this orange rust colored algae going crazy. I have to wipe my glass with the magnet about 4 times a day, it build up fast. Its on my power heads and other plastic parts in the tank. Anyone have this problem before?

Hello all, I am getting ready to purchase my first protein skimmer for my 75gal and am looking for some reviews. If you folks dont mind giving me some stats and info on your skimmer, weather or not you would recomend it and if youve had any problems, i would appreciate it. there are so many on...

i read cardinals school, if i get 3 or 4 pajama cardinals will they school for sure?

i have to issues i would like some advice on with my carpet. i dont know the exact species, i just know its a carpet and its huge, on a good day its bigger than a dinner plate. its in a 75 gal tank. had it since may of 2010 my first issue is that it never stays put. during the day it slowly...

ive been monotioring this thing for a few weeks and it always does the same thing. all i can see is what looks like a tiny elephant trunk type of tentacle or something, i say elephant because of the manner in which the end of this tentacle seems to be feeling around, and grabbing on to the rock...

i think it would be a great idea if there was a thread started on all the 'bad guys' that show up, like aptasias and red planaria. it would give a great starter point for people trying to identify hitchhikers.

Ok my camera is not picking this up so bear with me and ask questions if it helps. what i noticed today was 3 small holes in a rock, about the size of the letter O on your keyborad. Ive had this rock for about 8 months, it has a nice patch of bright purple algea on it about the size of a...

i have a javanese damsel that ive had for about a year, hes got very beautiful colors but he picks at my corals and is killing my kenya trees so he has to go. the only problem is hes too dang fast, ive got a 75 gal with about 65lbs of rock, is there a trap i can get to catch him? i cant go...

I have a 75 gallon loaded with corals and inverts, not many fish and a snowflake eel. I use a 250W metal halide along with 2 54W T-5's. My filter is just a hang on the back kind with the charcoal filters in it. I also use a 18W UV sterilizer. I do weekly water changes and bi-weekly filter...

its time for my water change and i also just bought a 20lb bag of natures ocean live sand. which would be best to do first? does it matter? thanks in advance.

i have had this brain coral for about a month, at first it was nice and inflated and looked huge and bright, at night the feeding tentacles would come out just like my trumpets and other corals, then one day last week at had some stringy brown stuff coming out of its mouths, i thought it may...

i have an open brain coral i recently purchased from my lfs, i noticed that there is one spot on its boney part that has a hitchhiker. ive seen these guys before but cant remember their name and dont know if its bad to have it where it is. basically it looks like a very small (too small for the...

im not sure but these guys look like some sort of polyp or zooanthid to me, but im no expert. this is the best pic i could get of the guys. thanks in advanced.

i dont know if i have 2 of these and one has been hiding since i noticed the second, or if the first one just relocated. heres what i got, it doesnt seem to matter if its day or night, out of a barely noticeable hole in a rock comes this little tentacle. first it comes out only about a 1/4 inch...

seems like everytime i turn around i find something new, so i was using a small led pen light to observe night time activity and noticed these little pinkish orangeish things, about an eighth of an inch long, real small, swimming like a little tadpole or sperm, they followed my light around on...

a few days ago i noticed a spot on a trumpet coral that looked like something might have been eating it but it was small so i wasnt sure. this morning i found my pincushion urchin carrying around my frog spawn and it was chewed up pretty good, heres some pics, you can see the boney part of the...

it looks like the species of feather duster that recently multiplied in my tank has taken a turbo snail as a host. is this bad? will it kill the snail? will the dusters grow and live? im just curious as to what will happen or if any one has seen this happen before.