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I understand not wanting to catch all the fish and remove them to a QT, but not doing so is the best method to ensure that your fish will eventualy die from it. While fish can and do develop a partial, key word being partial, resistence, all it takes is a stress event to happen in the tank and...

If this is in your 75 gal tank, I would get a sea cucumber instead, specialy if your sandbed is a live sandbed because any creature that sifts the sand only does so to find and eat the life that keeps a sandbed functional. Chuck

A very good "how to" article, yet for me, it still does not address many questions concerning the negative aspects and only touches upon them with "its thought" and "not yet understood" and totaly ignores the fact that corals also have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria, which if spurred to...

Possibly a sponge species commonly called the "pineapple" sponge? Chuck

Did you see where the object went? I ask because I wonder if that came out of the coraliamorph instead of being caught by it. Very strange indeed and is the first time I've seen anything like it. Chuck

Actualy, the same area of our tanks on a wild reef holds a HUGE amount of life, more than we will ever see in our tanks, and with greater numbers and diversity of life forms. The reason we will never see those numbers and diversity in our tanks is simply due to their being enclosed systems...

I see such things/methods along with a great deal of the equipment we use or have used as simply being attempts to do what is simply not possible. Keeping a "reef" in a single aquarium. Its impossible to have a reef ecosystem all within one tank. To create the same conditions that favor corals...

Could be amphipods as well. Regardless, the dosing of phytoplankton is something that should be "mandatory" for all reef aquariums for the simple reason that it is the basis of almost all oceanic food chains/loops. Such populations of any "pods" is a very good sign. Zooplankton Chuck

Don't get me wrong, there is no doubt that by providing a carbon source, be it sugar, vodka and even vinegar, will boost bacterial levels that are very effective for reducing dissolved nutrients. My point is, at what risk though? The idea of having to make wild guesses or uninformed judgements...

My biggest concern with trying to manipulate baterial populations is that there is no way to know or test what is actualy going on per the population levels. That and those same bacteria can turn on and attack your corals and fish. Kind of like flooding a room with bacteria to "clean" it and...

Yeah, I cheated...lol, Its a diving photo but the thread stated "reef related" which I took as being an open invitation to cheat...lol No worries, I don't expect that photo to count towards a tank related contest. Chuck

Here ya go! Chuck

Zoanthids can handle quite long exposure to air as they are frequently found in great numbers on shorelines / shallow areas that expose them to the air and rain at times during low tides. To remove the mushrooms, you can try scraping them off with a butter knife but if you tear their foot...

The polyps amongst the corallimorphs appear to be palythoa (zoanthids) that are not doing well. Might be the close proximity to the mushrooms causing them grief. Chuck

Iodine can form any number of different iodides when added to an aquarium. There is also no known evidence other than some macroalgae storing a lot of it that has any use for it. If any inverts do by chance have iodides within their system, they surely did not just absorb it out of the water...

Appreciate it, and I hope to add more to the hitch hiker pages today as I am about 10 minutes away from having to get ready so that I can be on the reef diving within the hour...:bounce: Chuck

If its attached to a small rock/rubble or some algae I would just toss the whole thing out. Thankfully I have not had to deal with them buggers here....yet (knock wood). Chuck

Appreciate the warm welcomes, thanks! Chuck

I agree, any of the super glue gels work but have found the Loctite brand to be best. Haven't found a better method to attach corals yet. Chuck

Hi Dustin and Thanks. Chuck