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    first equipment malfunction

    today i suffered my firt equipment malfunction. i returned home from work and was saying hello to my birds and something unusual caught my eye in the tank. when i looked it was my royal gramma dead and half eaten, figured it was due to a recently discoverd hitcher, and started doing homework...
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    stone/rock crab

    after losing a couple new additions of fish in the same area of tank and chalking it up to shock i saw a crab that hitched into my tank and looks like a small stone crab. was just going to wait until he was to big to big to hide inside the rocks to get him, but now my gramma has apperently...
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    snail question

    hi all, recently i have noticed quite a few small snails in my tank that seem to be propogating very quickly. the shells look like those on a natulis(not sure if those are snails or what). that is about the closest desciption i can come up with. anyone familiar with them, the population is...
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    yellow clown goby

    i saw one of these guys at a LFS and was wondering if anyone knows if they are reef safe, and if so would they work in my system: 75gl high gonna stop at 110-120# lr 70# ls CBS, pepermint,gonna have fire shrimp royal gramma true perc want a mandarin when rock is done brittle star and bahama star
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    slugs worms and nudis

    i know there are differences between these creatures,mostly minor from what litle reasearch i have done so far. currently have a flatworm in my tank that i saw once and have tentatively id'ed and am not real concerned about although watching closely. my LFS told me when we disscussed the worm...
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    flatworm opinions

    ok all i found a flatworm in my tank this morning, still trying to find out which kind. was wondering what the opinions are on them in general.
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    adding fish opinions

    i have about #80 of rock in my 75gl and am acclimating a true perc. as i type the next fish i want to add is a fire fish. heres the thing though couple stores/suppliers have purples right now and the store i buy from told me today that until this week he has not seen them on his lists or the...
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    another CBS question

    my CBS was caught eating a hermit last night, no attack was witnessed by he is becoming suspicious. i have lost several hermits in the last few weeks mostly medium sizes, was just wondering if CBS may become preditory if not enough else in tank or if yet again he seems to be the lucky recipient...
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    filtration question

    i have a question regarding bio-balls and LR. everyone states that #1-#1.5 pg is best for filtration along with a DSB. i have #78 in a 75gl-15gl sump for a 90gl system and do not have a DSB only about 2 inches of LS, could i start to remove the bio-balls slowly and allow the rock to become the...
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    fan worms and feather dusters

    are there any real differences between the fan worms and feather dusters? i have what i thought was a fan worm but it just keeps getting bigger and the colors and patterns in the fan are starting to look an awful lot like a feather duster, just wondering if there are any real differences.
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    snail deaths

    have a question on snails, what should i look for in the water that would kill mexican turbos. lose 1 a week about, nitrates are high doing 25% changes weekly to reduce, LFS ro unit broke:(. right now they are at 40 but 2 different LFS cant think of any reasons.
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    reef invert question

    i currently have in my tank a CSB( who is on the bubble after eating a peppermint shrimp, has anyone tried spot feeding these guys?), peppermint shrimp, a few snails(astrea,mexican), several crabs(red-leg, scarlet,blue-leg), a bahama star(not reef safe but dosent eat polyps,jury still out on...
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    CBS preditory?

    has anyone witnessed a cbs attack and kill another shrimp for food? came home from the movies tonight to see my cbs munching on 1 of my peppermint shrimp. i did not witness any attack and i know that the cbs can be territorial but they have been in the tank together for a month without any...
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    condylactus(sp?) ananome

    lfs guy told me that the codalactus are not as sensitive as most of the anenomes and that they are relatively easy to care for, is this true or are they just relatively easy compared to the rest. i would like to have an anenome but dont think the lights on the tank will support one. i have a...
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    flame hawk

    is the flame hawk reefsafe, i was going to get a flame angel until lfs guy told me they will pick at alot of different corals including zooanthida(sp?) which i have and like.
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    baby starfish id help

    i found a baby starfish the other day in my tank, its about the size of a dime. it is white with 3 full "arms" and 4 more developing and it is shaped just like a stereotypical starfish such as a choc. chip or bahama but looks like it is going to have 7 arms. i do have a bahama star so if they...
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    opinions on fish please

    ok need some opinions please. just thought out what fish i want for my tank. setup is a 75gl high w/sump, mag7 return, kent nautilis skimmer, fluval 404ph, 2 powersweep 228 ph, gonna end up with 110-120# LR, 80# LS, sump is about 20gl. would like to have as far as fish royal gramma(already have)...
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    bristle worms

    i have what i think is a rather large bristle worm on my LR. it is at least 1 1/2" long and looks like an elephants trunk. i believe it to be responsible for the death of an emerald crab and what looked like a stone crab hitcher. will a baster full of hot FW work on them or do they move around alot?
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    clean up crew

    i have seen alot of these package cloean up crews that seem huge. my tank is a 75gl but it is tall, i want to end up with about 100-115# LR. thinking that i will have around 15 scarlet hermits, 3 red legs which are already in, 20 blue leg hermits, already have a CBS, want a cleaner shrimp, have...
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    how bad did i mess up?

    about a week ago i purchased a pistol shrimp. the lfs guy was aware of my plans for the tank and what i have in it and made no mention of a problem. now i have done some reasearch here and have come to find that the pistols are only slightly less a problem than the mantis? i know where he calls...
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