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I have been trying to decide weather or not to get one of these guys for my tank. I have some red wiry turf algae, some red bubble algae, and some lobophora. According to reefcleaners.org an emerald crab might like to eat all three of these. I've been reading about Emerald crabs for some...

I had a peppermint shrimp die today as described in the invert forum. This prompted me to test my water again. Temp 79 - 81 Spec Grav .025 Calcium 400 Phosphate 0 Nitrate 0 Nitrite 0 Ammonia .10? (I can't say its zero but its far from .25 which is the first reading on the color...

Greetings, So my peppermint shrimp died today, I'm not sure of the cause. I haven't had him for too long, but this guy was the biggest peppermint shrimp I've yet seen in person, so he may have been old. I plan on running tests tonight, is there anything in particular I should look for as far...

So i have been seeing these tiny rust colored specs on my glass for months now. The biggest may be just over 1/16th of an inch. I can probably count at least a dozen of them on any given day. Their numbers have not appeared to increase over the months and at first I figured they were some type...

I found a couple of starfish tagalongs a few months back. The best i can tell they are some sort of brittle or serpent star. The biggest is about an inch and a half. They all seem to have one or two longer tentacles on one side, then shorter ones on the other. They are all tentacle with a very...

For the past few months, snails have been laying their eggs all over my rocks. I think some have been hatching, Last night I noticed what looked like tiny white snails, almost all over the place. With the day lights on I can only see a few of them. There are so many eggs that if the majority of...

Hi folks, Its getting close to a year since I set up my tank. I have a new 150W 14,000K bulb for my HQI metal halide. My plan is to set the timer for two hours, then add 1/2 hour a day until I'm back up to the full 8 hours. Is this a sound acclimation strategy? Thanks!

Greetings, I've got this guy for a fudge light on the back of my biocube hqi: Aquarium T-5 Fluorescent Light Fixtures: Coralife Mini Aqualight T-5 Dual Lamp Fixture This is my second one. The first one lasted for about 6 months before it went dark. At first when I tapped on it the...

My watchman goby has a pet tiger shrimp. They share a borough under a big rock that has a couple of entrances. This is the fourth time I've seen the shrimp come out, grab a crab, and drag him back into his hole. At first I thought maybe the shrimp just saw the shell and wanted to add it to...

This thing came a small rock with a couple of zoas growing on it. The zoas didn't do so well, so I removed the rock, then found this guy growing there. Hard to get a good pic. Pinkish purple, and it seems fairly rigid, Its in a good current area and it doesn't even twitch. It looks like it...

Normally when I test, I dont detect any ammonia, nitrate, or phosphate. I ran tests this evening, and this is what I got: Ammonia - .13 Nitrate - 10 Phosphate - .25 Nitrite was at 0, and the other tests I have all came out normal. I fed my fish a cube this morning, probably too much...

I've had this stuff on my rocks, really since I set up my tank. It grows very slowly, but has spread to a couple rocks and there are one or two large patches of it. Is it Lobophora? It is brown and rubbery. Any removal advice? Reefcleaners says an emerald crab is the best bet, but those...

My ocellaris clowns were friends for over six months, then all of a sudden the female went crazy with rage and beat the male to within an inch of his life. It was so bad that I tried on 4 occasions to catch one of them to return it to the LFS. I'm bad at fishing. All I managed to do was to...

One of my candy cane or trumpet corals gets one or two long clear strings coming off of it, often with bubbles attactched to it, ive also noticed bubbles forming on the poloyps of both of them. Is this a sign of somthing bad?

The LFS had just got this guy in today, he was with a tiger shrimp. I could not resist the pair. He seems to be settling in nicely. As always, I'm super nervous about adding a new fish. Please offer care advice for a bottom dweller like this. They said he was a pink spot, but the spots...

Hi guys, as i posted before, a guy I know is tearing down his fishtank and getting rid of everything he has. Most of his stuff is just too big or too picky for my little tank, but I did take the 3 smallest peices of coral he had. The 2 in the first pic look like candy cane/trumpet/torch...

Hey guys, so heres the deal... My biocube 29 hqi is doing really well. Ive got two clowns and a midas blenny who all seem to be very happy. Ive only added a few bits of coral so far. I started with 3 mushrooms and a couple small zoa colonies. Everything has grown and multiplied. Theres...

My peppermint shrimps died :( I did some major cleaning a few weeks ago, had to move around the rocks. I tried to be careful but one got beat up really bad and died about 2 weeks later. The other one disappeared all togother. I want to get 2 new peppermints and a banded coral shrimp. Is...

My Zoas seem to be doing well for the most part. They have grown a few new polyps in the past few months and they stay open nearly the entire time the lights are on. I've noticed that they seem to be getting a bit shaggy. I mean their "fingers" around the edges seem to be getting longer...

I'm not exactly sure where else to post this question... I have an issue with my pump outlet blowing around my sand. No matter where I point the stock deflector it always seems to disturb my sand bed. I've tried it without the deflector and I have one of those rotating deflectors. The...