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I don't know why the salinity level never crossed my mind as a factor. Thank you all for the help again. I will definitely change the method I introduce them into the tank. It will be worth it when it is done, but when I had a freshwater tank, it was much much easier.

Ok I have never acclimated anything like that. The pet shop guy tols me 15 mins and then free them. I think I start may using another store too. This time around I saw them picking alot of dead fish out other tanks. Thank you BL1 again..i'm going read that link now.

I leave them in the bags they come from the petshop in, and then let it float around for 20 minutes. then open bag and let the thrimp swim out with the water. The one that i first lost today was already dead in the bag by the time i got home, and its a 15 minute ride.

I'm talking about the starfish, hermits, etc.. I bought two Peppermint shrimp today, a turbo snail, and 3 blue hermits. This was not the first time I tryed with a peppermint shrimp. I did about 3 mos ago, and he died inside an hour. Ok my water might have been screwed..that one was more than...

Hopefully it's a good enough image. It looks black here, but in reality it is a deep purple as I said. If it would be a bacteria, wouldn't it be on my other rocks? This one is the only one showing this.

ok will do. Hopefully my phone takes a good enough pic. My digi cam is fried atm.

LOL. I was ok. Just images they had of different parasites. When you go jumping link to link on the net you run into some graphic pictures and the parasites aren't all fish related.

Thanks for the help little Fish and Mandarin. I was reading more on sponges ( read alot already) but I look it up again as I run into things. Somehow I ended up once again looking at undesirable stowaways on live rocks, and ended up at the parasites section. I'm going clean house to get rid of...

Yes a very deep purple.

It is soft and mushy.

I looked at the pics of amphipods and that's exactly what they look like. Yes, they are very small. I haven't touched the purple spots yet. I don't know if they sting or not, I guess I'll find out later today. Thank you for the welcome.:)

I took my water to the pet store to have it tested. I thought I was screwing up everything, but my water came back perfect. Come to find out, my test strips were bad. I put the live rock in my tank, after cleaning it. I looked last night with a flashlight, and can see small white things running...

Nm got it going. It just threw me off a bit.

I know it gets plugged outside the water. I meant you will have part of the electrical line submerged. Just seemed odd to have the cord, (not plug in) under water. I know what I was trying to type, I just didn't get it across the way I meant..lol It's been a long day.

OK, I have the new tank and everything going. I am trying to setup the protein skimmer. Seaclone Protein Skimmer Below is a pic of what mine looks like. Its called a SeaClone. I understand it hangs on the back and the air valve does not go beneath the water. I think I am supposed to put the maxi...

I do have a couple fish in there. A coral beauty and mandarin. I may just go ahead and get some more sand. For about a year and a half, I had a couple of clownfish, and then I did something stupid, not rinsing something well enough and lost them.

I will copy down what you wrote about the lights and hood, for when I go get the tank.

We have the live sand in ours. The reason I waited so long to do something is, I let the tank run about a good year and a half before I put anything in it. And, I wanted to replace the carpet, but that may wait awhile longer after pricing recarpeting the whole house:S. This problems with this...

The lighting is basically one long fluorescent bulb. This tank was given to me by my brother in law. I am planning on getting a new tank this friday.

Thank you all for the replies. I thought it might be diatoms from looking it up. I also am using tap water, and was putting something in it which I thought was supposed to be getting rid of all of the nitrates, chlorine, etc.. I'll go to the store later for the dist. water. Thank you all again...