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My mushroom has been growing and splitting, the parent was orange. The children were orange colored as well until recently. I have attached a pic of what I think looks like a color mutation of sorts. The new children have white stripes? I've never seen this before and wasn't sure if that's...

I don't mean fragging a mushroom. Here's my problem, I have a huge fuzzy mushroom that just keeps on getting bigger. I was wondering if anyone cuts theirs down to size after they get to 6 inches for a single shroom.

I was feeding my tank and just saw one of my peppermint shrimp rip apart and eat an amphipod. Is this normal behavior for that species?

I'm not very good with traps and such, what are your recommendations for removing camel shrimp? I might accidentally have introduced a pair when I added some peppermints to my tank. They definitely look like camel shrimp and I think they ate all my peppermint shrimp =/ I did not have this...

Something odd has started to grow in parts of my tank. What is it? I am trying to ID the green algae in this pic, it has many branches and is tough to remove, it's really dug in. Do I need an urchin for this job? Seems to have "roots" or vine like parts that are stuck in the rock surface...

I don't know where this came from, probably a small piece got introduced with my Chaeto. It grows like CRAAAAAAZZZY in my display tank in places it got attached to, I think it almost doubles every week in size until I remove by hand. I never manage to get all of it out. Is it a useful algae...

I've had enough of this guy... my chocolate chip starfish is now being isolated in the refugium with only tons of chaeto algae as his companion. Found him munching on my new acropora. Had to peel him away with tweezers because he had the frag completely engulfed being slowly dissolved alive in...

I recently added a tuxedo sea urchin to my tank. I had a chocolate chip starfish in there already. I'm writing this post to share my very short lived experience as a tuxedo urchin owner. From the first day the urchin looked good, no problems at all and eating well. That night I saw the starfish...

Must frag without contamination. Is this possible given the extent of the growth here? the yellow border kept expanding. I didn't believe this was actually happening until it was pretty obvious that the coralline algae was dying off. I was thinking of cutting off a frag of that favia and...

It's green but what is it?

I find this very strange but one or more of my turbo snails keeps cleaning my coralline algae encrusted rocks and chomping down on my blue clove polyps. Any way to stop this other than removing the snail? I've got about 5-8 in a 55 gal and used to have a lot of algae when I got my new lights...

I recently got two small pieces of new rock but found some weird hitchhikers. Crab has hairy legs, I would have said emerald except for the colors which is a pale white almost purple like color. Seems to be a mushroom of some sort on the rock work as well so I included a bigger pic. Not sure if...

good news, got my custom built sump in the mail today, will be doing unboxing pics as I get through all of this stuff... estimated at 80lbs of equipment. Boxes look a bit beat up so fingers crossed here.

Just noticed this guy in my tank today. A few others like him are chomping on some alage in my sump. I was wondering what he was. he's several times larger than the pods I have and has some distinctive claws.

I was wondering if a tank can be resealed from the outside. Every day I see more salt creep coming up from the bottom where the frame meets the glass even after wiping it off. I do not want to disturb my sand bed by removing everything from the tank to reseal it from the inside. Just wondering...

Seriously confused cucumber here? I didn't think this was normal but this guy spends a lot of time on the glass. I wonder what he's eating.

My white spotted hermit isn't really very active these days and I'm not sure why. He just sits there around one corner of the tank. I believe he just molted recently. Is this behavior normal after molting?

I have noticed my BTA has a bad habit of hiding directly under my heater rod which I have in the back of my DT. It is not the place I'd like to have the anemone but I can't figure out why he would like the heater so much. I am considering maybe he likes the hotter water around the heater. Tank...

Finally found a bigger shell for my hermit crab. I also found out who was flipping over the smaller rocks in my tank every day. When I say small I mean rocks 4x the size of the crab, this guy is strong! For comparison my 3+ in clown is in the background in the second pic. Does anyone else have...

Which species of hermit crab is this? This guy is already pretty big right now. That shell is 2-3 inches wide