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I was reading this guy's fishtank diary. He made alot of mistakes early on (way too many fish the first week he got the tank).. But over the course of two years, he upgraded to a 280gal tank... you know how it goes. Anyway, I finally get to this entry "01/10/02 Received 7 new frags from Gooch...

Ok, I'm an idiot :) I dropped some caulerpa in my tank to see if anything will eat it. Even my yellow tank avoids it. Well, it took root way under my rocks and now is crawling up the back wall and over some live rock. I've already tried to get it out, but can only get 'most' of it, and then in...

My hood can fit 4 - 40watt bulbs. Which 4 bulbs would you recommend. Based one what I read, I plan on going with the following, but would love to hear from someone more knowledgable. My goal is to have low light corals, and if possible, some medium light corals. Here is my plan 1 Blue Actinic...

I hate reposting this, but it has been over a week and nobody replied. I have a decorator crab currently living in my refugium. Is he reef safe. I know he may nip some sponges and corrals, but from what I've heard the don't do it very frequently. They aren't very popular on websites, only this...

I hate when I do this. went to the LFS to look around. Saw a cool sponge crab (about 5 different colored sponges on him)... and for the bargain price of $2. I asked if he was reef safe, lady said "sure". Come home, look it up, and sure enough there are some bad reports. Anyone have any...

Unbeleivable how things work out. I buy VERY small piecesof live rock. I mean the biggest single piece is probably 2.5 lbs. I purposefully did this because I didn't want anything bad coming with it (mantis shrimp etc.) today while I am feeding my fish (flake food), this HUGE crab comes out...

Tank is below. I have 160watts (all different types of bulbs up to 15k). For my next purchase, I would like to get a coral for my clownfish. I am not going to get an anenome ( I hate killing stuff), but think I can handle a coral if it is hearty enough. I have read that clownfish will adopt a...

I live in a small town, it can probably support one LFS, but unfortunately we have two that seem to hate each other. I was in one today looking to buy a nitate kit. This particular store sells Kordon, which uses powder. I prefer the liquid ones. He stated that liquid test kits are inaccurate...

Ok, I am ready to turn on my refuguim. I have a 20gal tank underneath my 55gal main tank. The overflow I have has two plastic boxes, one inside, one outside the tank with a U tub connecting them. How do I get the siphoning started in it. I am ready to start pumping water from my ref. into the...

Last night I noticed a small cut on the top of my brittlestar, I figured he just got caught on a piece of shard rock. This morning when I turned on the lights, he is all torn up. It's the to point where one of his legs is barely on anymore. there are cuts where the legs connect to the central...

It's crazy the way animals never seem to act the way they are 'supposed' to. Everything I read said that brittle stars would hide in cracks in the LR, and you would only see tentacles for most of the day. Mine climbs the tallest rock ( the one with about 20 mini feather dusters) and balances on...

I just started a 55gal reef tank last week. So far I have about 60# of DR and 20# of LR. On my bottom I have about 1" CC. (If I had read this board earlier, I would have gone deep sand). My filter is only a 333 Penquin Biowheel and I have 80 watts of light. (no skimmer yet) I ran the water...