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I tried several times unsuccessfully to get a better picture. The things were just to small. The largest one was smaller than a dime.

I'm trying to upload pictures from my mobile, and I'm not sure if it is working. I noticed today that my fighting conch was upside down, so I pulled him out to do a sniff test and discovered these two little crabs inside his shell. They are small, translucent, and have a body shape like a...

Ok. Thanks for the advice.

I did put them higher in the tank. My LFS had them under metal halides, so I figured they'd be fine under t5s. I added several corals at the same time and the others seem to be ok.

I don't have a test kit for magnesium, so I haven't checked that. I'm thinking it has to be phosphates and/or changing light spectrum.

No. I don't add anything. I do a 10% water change every other week. I run a remora pro skimmer and an hob filter with gfo and carbon bags in it. I have no algae at all but I do have some cyano on the sand in lower flow areas. I use ro/di water to top off. The phosphates came from overfeeding...

Frogspawn, galaxea, green star polyps, neon green candy canes, a trach, pulsing Xenia, pompom Xenia, and a giant elephant ear mushroom. The closest neighbor was the big mushroom.

I have some candy canes I got from my lfs a few weeks ago. They haven't looked great since I got them home and they're beginning to look worse. The skeleton is beginning to show. I know I have high phosphates, but other than that I'm kind of out of ideas. I have some neon greens in the same...

My frogspawn is growing back pretty quickly, it is beginning to look like a frogspawn again. It isn't colored like before though. It is pretty much all beige. Will it get its color back as it grows up or has it permanently become a bland color?

Does galaxea usually look deflated at night? Mine looks ok during the day, but at nit tends to recede and the little tentacles look flat like someone let the air out of them. Is this normal or is it sick? Any ideas?

I glued the skeleton of this frogspawn to a rock and over the past week or so I have started to notice a little bit of growth. It is tiny, but hopefully it will come out of it. It sort of glows in the actinic after the other lights are turned off.

I got two of the same size initially and one grew noticeably larger, it beat the daylights out of the other one and then went from healthy to dead over night. I was left with the little guy that had his fins all torn up and everything else. I went and bought a larger clown and the two of them...

No luck. He became a $50 feast for the cleanup crew. :( I guess I'm just not meant to have a par of clowns.

he's laying on the bottom behind some rock now :( he usually stays out all night, so this may be the end for him

I have gotten some small aiptasia as hitch hikers here and there. My two peppermints have wiped them out with a quickness. They also nip at my xenia though, the little turds.