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This little bug was hanging out in my overflow. When I irritated it it would raise these white spikes. I tossed it but anyone know if it was bad or good?

I was thinking of setting up my old 55 gallon tank as a frag tank. Is it necessary to cycle a frag tank? I plan on keeping nothing but coral in the tank.

5 years ago I bought some rock with a brown button polyp as a hitchhiker. Today, the damn thing has covered any and every rock it can touch and even has jump to places in my tank that appear impossible. Short of taking out all the rock does anyone have any suggestion as to how I can kill...

An older pic and a newer one

The LFS I frequent has a slightly used Knop calcium reactor for sale. The reactor is rated to 175 gallons. What is something like this worth assuming it is in good condition? I think I can get it for $150-$200. Thanks

I was reading in another thread where you use an auto top off system and kalk. I just bought the JBJ ATO and was thinking about doing the samething. Anything you can recommend me doing to make the setup and function easier? I planned on using a 5 gallon bucket with prepared kalk water and an...

A LFS in town is selling a 12inch stalk of acropora for $50. The LFS told me the specimen is from a local person's tank that was recently torn down. Thus the cheap price. It says a few independent stalks coming off. I do not have the lighting to keep acropora but figured it might be a good...

A couple weeks ago I decided to reaquascape my tank. I must have had a low flow area somewhere in the rock work which unleashed some lethal bacteria buildup because within hours my green montipora cap, orange montipora digitata, orange montipora cap and huge branching hydnophora died. The...

On another thread someone posted that water flow will dictate how far an LPS extends is sweeper tentacles. I have a large galaxia that is defying logic in terms of how far it is extending its tentacles. With the flow post in mind I might have found my problem. The galaxia is on my DSB. I...

While cleaning my glass I noticed hundreds of very very small red flecks moving all over the place. They do not move very fast but not exactly slow. The only comparison I can think of is chigger bugs. They are the very small red bugs that live in spanish moss and borrow in your skin like a tick.

Did a search and read how easy it is to resize a picture to conform to the 500 x 500 requirement. I tried all last night to getting the pictures resized but no matter what I did the board kept telling me I exceeded the 500 x 500 requirement. Most frustrating part is I used to post pictures all...

I have a toadstool that has brown button polyps growing like mad on its stalk. So far the toadstool has not reacted negatively to this but I am worried. The button polyps keep reproducing higher up the stalk. I don't want to damage the toadstool so I have left it alone but with as fast as...

My LFS stopped selling Bionic's two part additive and are now stocking WM (which I think stands for Western Marine?). Anyone know anything about this stuff? LFS claims it is stronger for about the same money. Not happy about this as I have been using Bionic for over 2 years and know what I am...

It has not opened in a good month. I have had it for two years and never had a problem with it. My other toadstool is perfectly happy, as well as all my other corals. There is no sign of decay and it actually looks as healthy as always with the exception of polyp extension. I have noticed...

Just switched from a 55 to 90 this past Saturday. All the corals are opening back up slowly. Thought I would share. Ags

I finally transferred my 55 into a 90 this past weekend. Cost me 7 hours of my life transferring everything over but well worth it. I have a couple questions for anyone who knows or has transferred to bigger tanks. I bought 30lbs of extremely cured fiji live rock and 30lbs of live sand in...

About six months ago I set up a buddy of mines tank. Since then he added about 200lbs of Fla LR. The other day I was looking through his tank and in a super small crevice I see a bunch of brine shrimp looking bugs swimming and darting around really fast. The space was so tight I could not get...

Just got these, the coloration is more intense in person.

Over the last couple weeks I have noticed a few smalls patches of green bubble aglae in my tank. There are only two areas where it is growing, in a colony of trumpets and on some LR underneath my colt. The tank has been set up for 2 years. My maintenance schedule has not changed in the...

For the past 6 months or more I have noticed an increasing amount of baby snails in my tank. While excited by the prospect of my snails doing me a favor and saving me money I am skeptical of the type of snails they are. The only snails I have purchased are turbo snails but I also have 40 lbs...