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So its been a while since I've been on here... or had time for anything over the summer. (thanks to the tons and tons of MCAT studying I've had to do, its SUPER fun :frustrat:) Anyway, I digress... my tank is one of the things that have really taken a hit from the lack of maintenance... so...

I have some extra money and was looking at getting some more exotic coral. Ive always loved acans but the price can be pretty outrageous. Since they sell for like $40/polyp, say i got like 2 or 3 polyps, is that too small of a frag to make it through shipping/introduction into a new tank...

Like the title says... do you? And how?

i traded in a bunch of macro to my lfs and got three pretty big pieces of neon green birdsnest coral... i have it placed high in my tank since i only have t5's and in good current. my question is how do you know if its happy?? Is it just if the polyps are out or not? what are signs of...

looking for either a t5 or mh light for my 40 gal breeder tank, if you have anything let me know asap please.

Anyone know where I can find replacement balasts? My 36in T5 has 2 balasts that went out and im trying to find replacements but i have no idea what will work... Any help is appreciated.

I knew this day would come... ive had this maroon clown for about 2 years and he is just over 2 inches now and becoming really aggressive. I've decided to try to catch him and return him to the LFS so my other fish dont get slaughtered, and also i dont want him hosting my duncans, which he is...

I got an Odyssea T5 fixture about a year ago online and it worked fine for a while, but now I realize what a piece of crap it is. The lunar lights are falling off of the fixture, and 2 out of the 4 bulbs are not working. They are brand new, couple weeks old, ATI bulbs, so I know its not the...

So as I was walking by my tank yesterday I saw something crawl REALLY fast towards my rock... it caught my attention so i looked to see what it was. All that was left of it was the left side of its body, and all i could really see was some legs and they were really hairy... Its definitely a...

I got a mandarin a while ago (like 2 or 3 months ago) from the lfs, the guy gave it to me cheap cause they run copper in the tanks with fish in them and so theres never pods in them and they had this mandarin for a while and he was afraid it was gonna die soon. Anyway, it had kinda sunken in...

Is it true that as emerald crabs age and mature they turn black?? I was at the LFS today and i told the guy to check if he had any emeralds left because i couldnt see any in their invert tank. He looked around and showed me this big mofo black crab, like almost the size of a silver dollar and...

Picked up a small ricordea frag from the LFS the other day, it has one shroom about the size of a quarter, one the size of a nickel and one one that is just barely starting out... Now that i have some somewhat more expensive corals (duncans and ricordea) i was going to start a spot feeding...

What is the average growth rate for zoas?? I got a frag of some pretty nice zoas and was wondering if they spread pretty quick or not...

I just recently got a peppermint shrimp as a test to see if he would make it ok in my tank. I used to have 2 but they died the last time i moved my tank. Back to the one i just got... i acclimated him for about 2 hrs, not drip, but let t he bag float and added small amounts of water. He seemed...

Im gonna pick up a frag of pulsing xenia tomorrow when i head back home and was gonna try to get some things cleared up. 1) I thought that xenia is suppose to grow like a weed, yet a bunch of sites list it as "moderate to hard" to keep?? 2) I thought the pulsing xenia was "pulsing" because...

Any ideas how hardy they are and how to tell if one is healthy before you get it? My LFS just got 3 in and i really like them but i wanna make sure they are healthy before i get one... oh they ate $20, good price??

I just got my replacement T5 bulbs and I dont know if i made a mistake picking out the bulbs or if they just are terrible quality... but I got 2 super actinics, 1 aquasun and 1 white actinic and they make my tank look very very pink. Also, the super actinics looklight blue when they are turned...

I just recently got 4 new replacement bulbs for my T5 fixture and installed them yesterday. I noticed on of the bulbs keeps turning off, and i have to shake/tap the fixture and it eventually turns back on. How can i go about seeing where the problem is and fixing it?? Also, the even worse...

I was thinking about starting a 10 gal nano tank for coral only... and maybe a couple shrimp. For equipment all i was going to use was: 1. PC light, something like this 20" Aquarium Light Cichlid Nano Reef 36W - eBay (item 300384199437 end time Feb-04-10 21:20:41 PST) 2. a powerhead, small...

So since I've kinda made friends with the general manager at my LFS, i've been asking him to let me know when he gets coral in that is more rare/expensive so i could get a frag. Well today my wishes came true... when i went in there he had gotten in 2 frags of duncans and had them both on hold...