Recent content by lauriemae

Please help with answer Pretty please? :cool:

hi all! Long time no see. Have had SOOO many ups and downs between our 3 reef tanks since I've been here, BUT am getting smarter on them! All of the hair algae (for those who remember) stemmed from inadequate MH/fluor/moonlight hood I was sold and I lost hundreds and hundreds of dollars of...

no sump...this is a biocube that is open on top with a light fixture on legs on the top. I've had the lettuce nudis before...they are much smaller so could try them. Never heard of a foxface eating it...could try that, too. I would LOVE to take the rock out and scrub it and considered doing...

Thanks for the advice! Will ask him (lol, nicely... as he LOVES doing my water changes for me) to do it once a week. Yes, we buy RO water and I had never heard what you said about the hair algae eating up the phos/nitrates and leaving a 0 reading. What can I do about that other than more often...

My son does partial water changes bi weekly. It is a 28 gallon tank and he probably changes 4-5 gallons each time. I know there is never a guarantee something won't get eaten, but I'm hoping to generate some additional answers on what may have gone wrong so I can make a somewhat intelligent...

but as you can see, there was PLENTY of hair algae still for him to eat and he spent lots of time on the side of the tank as well....hard to believe he would have been out of food. I would have started supplementing him with algae sheets like we do in my son's tank for his tangs...moot point...

anemone identification/location Here's a photo of the anemone and where it is in the tank. As you can see, there hair algae is thick and hardy by the anemone and I'm unable to get to it without attack nemo biting me and I'm wondering if the same thing happened to the sea hare? I've heard of sea...

type not sure...will snap a photo and post it. It was a tiny anemone when I got it and I've never had any luck in getting them to survive in any of my small tanks. My son had issues in his larger tank, too, but we both ended up with one (each) that survived nicely...would be good to know what...

Just came home from church to see my anemone eating my sea hare! :eek: :banghead: I couldn't believe it! I didn't think my anemone was that big, especially considering the sea hare was over 3 inches and chunky. I had NO clue what was in the anemone's mouth...my son said he thought that was what...

you know what I just thought of? There is a large anenome in the back lefthand side of the tank. He can get rather large, but for close to a year he has been in the same place, happy as a lark....just the clown and him. WELL, this morning, he decided he was tired of that place and started to...

Thanks so much for your insight/advice. We'll start looking at things to see what we can find as far as electrical items. Just how would you know if a power head puked its guts in your tank? Will let you know what we find.

Hi all, In our 55 gallon tank, one coral after another has been biting the dust. :( First, the elegance, then a brain, candy cane, pineapple and now his lobo, which has been wonderfully happy for eight months has developed some cyst looking bumps this last week. Well tonight it looks as if one...

Hi there In my son's tank (55 gallon fish, live rock & coral) we have seen white spaghetti worms inside caves of the live rock, but I just saw a few long very skinny green thread looking things on top of an area of zoas/polyps that is keeping them closed it seems. Are there green spaghetti...

Hi all! Nice to be back, but sorry to be back because of an aquarium problem. :mad: OK, my 28 gallon tank is now all set up and looking pretty with all the fish/corals transferred from my small 12 gallon tank. I have these fish: 1 - maroon clown 1 - six line wrasse 1 - yellow watchman...

hi Doug, Great to see you again! :-) As always, thanks for your quick reply and your page full of answers you don't feel like typing, hahahaha I never thought of the sand sifting star, in a 3 month tank that does make sense, guess I'll send him to my son's tank. Could he really ingest a pygmy...