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Our GSPs closed up for almost 2 weeks after they had been happy and healthy for probably 2 months. After about a week of being closed I blew some of the debris and other "dust-like" particles off the purple mat gently with a turkey baster then a few days later I brushed them with lightly with a...

Our pistol shrimp (a japanese) luckily chose to burrow under a rock right at the front of our tank so we get to see her all the time. There have been a few days every once in a while where she'll close up the entrances and stay under the rock but for the most part she's in and out fairly...

Haha yep! They normally sell the gobies for $13 apiece, which is still cheap, but he cut us an even better deal! Originally when he said that they had paired already we thought he was talking about the shrimp and goby, but he was actually just talking about the 2 gobies. We think the pistol...

Thanks everyone! Yea we really lucked out how quickly they paired up and how well all of them seem to be getting along so far!

So I posted prob 2 months ago about us finally getting a tailspot Blenny as our first fish but hadnt gotten around to posting pics so here are a couple of the better ones we've been able to get so far! Sorry that the quality isnt great! And now for our newest additions! We wanted a...

Ok we finally got our first fish last night! One of the guys that works at the LFS in Indy actually livings in Bloomington (like us) and just drove it down to us after work last night....talk about good service! We picked the tailspot blenny and got a great deal on him (only $10!). He's been...

It looks like we'll try to pick up a few mini blew hermits then and hopefully I'll have the same results and they wont pick on any snails! One of the feather dusters has got a chunk at the end of the 'tube' that looks pretty rough and actually has some Aiptasia on it. Its mangled a little so...

Ok hopefully thats all it is b/c we havent seen it today yet!

So have you all had any trouble with the hermits picking on the snails or anything? Most of the snails the LFS picked out for us are pretty small (which explains why we got so many). Would it be irregular for the peppermint shrimp to molt this soon after having him in the tank? I found what...

ok thats really nice to hear b/c some websites act like they're the devil-in-worm-form! haha Another thing that I guess I hadnt realized was that according to my LFS, its best to not mix hermits and snails? I guess I just assumed I could get the mini blue-legged hermits or the red equivalents...

wow that would be exciting to find some brittle stars already in the tank! Today we went and finally got a clean up crew consisting of: 1 Skunk Cleaner shrimp, 1 peppermint shrimp, 8 ceriths, 12 nerites, and 12 nassarius, then we added 3 neon yellow/green feather dusters on top of that. When...

So far most of the brittle/serpent stars have a minimum tank size of 55g. Do you think it'd be able to find enough food in a 29g or could I supplement its diet enough to get by? Also, we finally found our first 'pod' yesterday! That along with a single snail (which is so small its hard to tell...

Also, do these numbers seem normal for the cycle? It's only been a week since live rock was added but it doesnt seem like the ammonia has really spiked. 2 days after cycling: ammonia: 0.5ppm nitrite: 0.2 ppm nitrate: 3.0 ppm 4 days after: ammonia: 0.25 ppm nitrite: 0.5 ppm nitrate: 5 ppm 7...

Ok it looks like we'll prob get a mixture of the mini hermit crabs! Do you all know of any sea stars that we could support in this tank (preferably not the bristle or serpent stars b/c they're a little creepy looking lol)? We both really like the looks of the linckias but not sure if they're a...

Thanks yote! It means alot to have somebody experienced say we did alright atleast setting up the tank! Ok here's another question since we'll be adding a CUC here in the next couple of weeks, would you recommend scarlet, red, or blue hermit crabs or does it really matter? We will have corrals...

Thanks everyone for the advice! It looks like we'll probably try to keep the structure non-attached for now unless it becomes obvious that its not stable enough! Also, we finally uploaded some pictures of the tank and rock set-up into our profile (b/c we couldnt figure out how to actually...

alright i just tested the structure and it def. feels like it can resist whatever a few small fish/inverts could throw at it haha. It looks like we'll go with the flow here and try out the unattached method for a while! Thanks for the help everyone! On a side note, do you recommend running...

im just a little worried about the overall stability bc the pieces of live rock we bought are fairly small so stacking them seems a little risky with a goby/shrimp pair and hopefully a blenny. We did wait to add the sand until the rock was in, however, so hopefully the rocks wouldnt shift much...

we were thinking of maybe just attaching a couple of the rocks together so that the overall structure was more stable, but we probably wont attach all the rocks together for that very reason (rearranging)!

the quicksteel stuff actually says its drinking water safe....does that say anything about its safe-ness in an aquarium? here's the link to the actual stuff: Amazon.com: CarGo Chemical - QuickSteel Epoxy Putty, 4 oz. (6004): Automotive