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I have a bunch of those. They are great scavengers and help keep detritus under control.

Well, not many common species get that big, and those that do have a potential to be predatory in the absence of acceptable food. Don't get me wrong, I'd say probably 99.99% of the worms we see are not only harmless, but beneficial. But a six inch long, half inch wide worm may decide that soft...

A few species of worm can potentially cause problems. Hermodice carunculata can eat corals, especially gorgonians and thin branching sps corals. They may nibble at zoas as well. But all of this is dependent on the worm reaching a size that few reach in aquariums. Beyond that, they seem to live...

Though a couple of polychaete worms have "fireworm" in their name (such as the Caribbean bearded fireworm), the terms fireworm and bristleworm are generally interchangeable. As already stated, a eunicid worm could be a problem, but really only if it gets big. I had a Caribbean bearded worm in my...

My experience is that crabs in a reef are bad news. I'd try to catch him. Do you have a sump he can live in?

Got so,e frags shipped in today. FedEx temporarily lost them, so they got cold. Also jostled enough to break the montipora into little pieces. Lost the acropora turaki, but everything else survived. Acropora red planet Stylophora pistillata Three colors of montipora capricornis

As a rule, Mr_X knows his stuff.

Well, they are crabs. I maintain (somewhat controversially) that there is no such thing as a 100% reef safe crab. You don't build a Sherman tank and call it a teddy bear. Lol

I also didn't have any hermits at the time.

I never saw anything munch mine, but all experiences will be different. Mine got overgrown by algae. Glad that's been fixed since then.

Requirements are similar to zoas, so low (depending on light of course), good flow, and they'll spread. In my experience they are not quite as prolific as zoas, but back then my tank was in poor shape.

I guess the move stressed him more than I thought! My green BTA is doing fantastic, so I'm willing to wager these two will do fine once try recover.

A local reefer gave me a red bubble tip anemone last Thursday. It promptly moved under a rock, into a cave, and hid. To be expected, of course. But it stayed there, and is still there. I was starting to get worried, but today, while peering around the back, I was quote startled to see a smaller...

Well, definitely not colonial hydroids, but maybe the stringy type. Again, difficult to tell without a much closer picture. If it's a hydroid then it's bad. If it's a worm, it's probably good.

Any dimmable unit will be good for controlling with a timer, but to control intensity via computer, you'll need a higher end system.