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I am looking at buying a refugium with a protein skimmer inside of it. Wondering if this is as good of an idea as it sounds or if there are some cons to this as well? Are there any extra benefits to having these both together as to having them seperate from one another (besides just price)? Not...

Hopefully this won't take too long, but for the sake of being helped in the best way possible, I'm going to explain everything going on with my lights. April of last year, I bought a set of the 48 inch aqualights from my local shop made by coralife (they have two 10,000k bulbs, two actinics...

Went to go get a drink late last night, and decided to turn on the kitchen light to see if I could see anything crawling around in my tank. I took a look at one of my live rocks, and found a small animal slowly crawling across it. Since I don't have a digi-camera to take a photo of him, I'll...

Yep, that's the name of the speech I'm going to give tomorrow in my Communications class :p . I'll put the whole typed version of it up tomorrow (too tired now) but I'm just kind of proud of the end result. I feel like I will be doing a good job of educating some of the people who may just...

Hey all, was just wondering if I could have some assistance with a speech that I am giving soon. I've chosen to inform my class about how to set up and maintain a saltwater fish tank. I've got a pretty good plan so far on what to say, but I was wondering if there was anything you guys think I...

I've had this one piece of LR for about 2 months now, and it has always had a lot of life on it, feather dusters, etc. Just last night I went out to the living room and turned on the light, and saw a very strange thing coming out of a big hole in the rock. From the hole in the rock to its tip...

I'm just wondering if anyone has a yellowtail that has the same personality as mine. He is a demolitions master... every week I have to save his yellow little butt because he will clear all the sand out from underneath one of my larger pieces of LR... and it will collapse on him. When I'm not...

I was in my LFS about a week ago, and saw one of these there. I've never seen anything like it, and I really would love to add it to my tank. 'MeBigLoser' had a good picture of one that looks just like it, so I will go with his ID on it since the LFS had no clue. Can anyone give me any...

I've had two clowns in my tank for a month and a half, and I have really been thinking of getting an anemone to host one, if not both of them. I have a Percula and a saddleback. The book I have says that the saddleback will do best with a Haddon's Anemone, which I see is for sale on this site...

What is the best garlic supplement to use for feeding your fish with? My FLS uses Kent Garlic Xtreme, however they don't have it stocked ever.... They do have some outrageously priced other junk that doesn't look as good. I couldn't find any garlic products at *****, and I guess my only other...

I believe that is what you call what two of my fish in my 55 gallon have gotten recently. Last week, I had a small blue damsel get this, and it went away on its own before I even got the chance to post on here. However, I came back home from work today to find my saddleback clownfish with a...

Two of my three peppermint shrimp seem to be carrying something extra in their bellies. Since they are mostly transparent, I can see these little white balls inside of them. Are these eggs? Will they keep them in their bellies to incubate or whatever for a bit, or are they going to lay them...

Just bought a VERY nice piece of fiji LR yesterday, and it has quite a nice amount of growth on it. The LFS had two nice chunks of yellow poylp rocks resting on top of it, so it has a couple yellow polyps itself. There are also some low lying patches of reddish-orange polyps. Anyone know what...

Turned on my lights this morning to inspect everyone in the tank, and found that my sally lightfoot is missing both his front claws, and one of his back legs!!!!! I have had a blue tang in with him for three weeks, and he isn't big enough to pester him. However, I am taking care of 2 clownfish...

Yesterday, I went to go feed my fish, and I was surprised to see a small swirl of white stringy-looking stuff on the glass of my tank, about halfway up from the sand. Taking a closer look at it, I realized it wasn't quite a string, but a lot of little blobs that were kind of connected. The...

Just making sure I'm giving this guy enough variety - I am currently feeding him spirinula flakes, brine shrimp, and letting him munch on some green seaweed. He seems to be doing really well with all that, eating almost all of what I feed him, and eats a good deal of the seaweed over the course...

Hey all - I just made my very first purchase of a saltwater fish! I am very excited to have this little fella in my tank, and he seems to be acclimating very well to the tank set up I have. I got my Regal Tang for $24, and he's very young. He is less than an inch long right now. Other than...

I purchased a very small Regal Tang for my tank today (less than an inch for only $24) and I know that these guys are very susceptible to this disease. However, I know very little about it, or what a fish with it would look like. I also know nothing about how to treat it, so I want to be able...

Okay, so now I have scarlet hermit crab legs scattered all around my tank and 9 empty shells. SOMEONE is eating my scarlet hermits (and maybe even my bluelegs?!) I have 3 peppermint shrimps, two emerald crabs .... and my number one suspect is my Sally Lightfoot. Everything I read about the SL...

When I added my LR a couple weeks ago, there was a really long tube worm that was sticking out of the top of one piece. Even though he wasn't all that interesting, I thought it was kinda cool to see it living there. Anyways, I added a bunch of inverts the other day, and since then someone has...