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Your tank looks great - you have a lot to be thankful for! Plus you live in a wonderful place! I was just in NM a few months ago to visit my sister who has lived there for 15 yrs. It is wonderful! MG1197

they are filter feeders (need phytoplankton), are not light sensitive - they should be out all the time, they are not particularly sensitive to water quality, and they do grow their feathers back if they ever 'pop theier tops"

This may be the problem. I think you should have between 3 to 5 watts per gallon for soft corals - shrooms in particular want lots of light!. As for the feeding aspect, shrooms eat phytoplankton. I just squirt it straight into the tank. you can probably add via a baster if you choose - but i...

URI bulbs are great!!! And, you do need VHO ballasts. You should buy "electronic" ballasts while you are at it - they generate far less heat.

With that said, using your measure I have 1 fish per 18 gallons at present.

my own experience is once a hard coral has skeleton exposed it is just a matter of time before it wastes away - not much you can do. I would love to hear something to the contrary though if anyone has any advice. Mg1197

make sure if you use a bucket that it is clean and has NEVER been used for any other purpose. I made a silly mistake early on in syponing with a piece of tubing that was LAYING around my house. In the process, water accidently backed up back into the tank. I was lucky in that the hose turned...

instead of the Dotty. Also, be careful with the fairy Wrasse - they are jumpers!

I used this stuff once, and my recollection is that the instructions indicated that you were to turn off your skimmer for a short period (I think it was a day??). Was this the case with the stufff you used?

I believe it is very similar, if not the same as a blue Linkia - just a slightly different color variation. I have seen these same ones in reef tanks and they seem to do well. The trick, like with most stars, is keeping it alive! Good luck. Mg1197

Does anyone have a good resource book that they want to sell?

NM - you mentioned that you put your plate on the sand bed, I was told by LFS to place my white(long tentacle) plate as high up in the tank as possible and in a fair amount of current/flow. See - this is the problem I am having - I hear so many conflicting things that I don't know which to...

I have several corals in my reef tank and while I have done a fair amount of reading and talking with "LFS" types, I am still not completely clear on a few issues. While I am clear on tank placement relative to lighting, I am not clear on water flow. I have the following corals Colt, Plate...

This is a great fish - they are reef safe as far as I know - I had one in a reef tank. I'm not sure of their behavior around small shrimp. Though they are fine with corals and will eat bristle worms!

Just make sure that they are high up in the tank and that your water p[arameters are ok - that should be all they need. I have never heard of clowns bothering shrooms.

Just tiny pin sized holes through the dorsal and pectral fins. There are 2 or three on the dorsal fin and a few on his pectral fins. Do you think something in the tank is biting him?

flame angel, percula (tank raised), royal gramma, psuedo, bubbletip (he pairs up well with this), arrow crab, various corals, snails. I don't think any of these are attacking him though. Could the cause be bristle worms? I know I have some of these in the tank. Please, if anyone has ideas I...

Sorry - I have posted this on the disease and treatment page but have received no responses - I have a mature maroon clown fish in my 90 gal reef tank. Two days ago I noticed he had one or two pin-tip sized holes in his dorsal fin. Today I examined him and he appears to have several more. He...

I noticed that my maroon clown has developed several pin-tipped size holes in his fins. This has gotten slightly worse over the past 2 days. What is causing this and what can I do for him - he is in a 90 gal reef with other fish, corals, inverts, LR and LS. Please help!!!

How do these things work??