Recent content by MelissaJay

How long has the Duncan been in your tank? Some of them like moderate lighting and flow, or so I've heard. From my limited experience, my corals seem to cycle through periods where they are vibrant and fully extended to periods where they seem to be hibernating and conserving energy. They are...

I have 4 damsels and a clown and do not feed them twice daily.

Yeah....I have all my lights on timers already Tom-tom. I live in the rural area outside of Tampa so it would be a bit of an inconvenience to ask someone to drive out for feeding. Perhaps I could hire a responsible teenager to pop in..... But I have disturbing visions of Portal 2 parties and...

Thanks for all the feedback!! Well....I think you are gonna love my evaporation solution.... I am going to fill the 10 gallon sump to the highest normal level. I will then prepare two five gallon buckets with fresh RODI water. I'll run a siphon line from the bottom of bucket #1 to bottom of...

Ok......so I'm stuck here and need the sage advice of you seasoned aquariasts. I'm going camping for 5 days and am trying to arrange for the feeding of my 55g reef tank. I have four damsels and a clown, along with assorted soft corals, SPS and LPS. I will be too far away to return for daily...

Glad to help! That's a gorgeous fish, by the way :-)

Oh yeah! Most epic. Reminds me of a Chinese Dragon!

I'm pretty sure Jmlorfam is right. Looks like a Halichoeres. Perhaps the halichoeres melanurus

Sure looks like a yellow toadstool leather to me VooDoo. Lovely coral!

Hey Dude... Methinks that might be a Talbot's Damselfish you have there.

Seriously tho, thanks! I am a total noob and find something new in my tank weekly! This is a most fascinating hobby and the biodiversity within my small 55g tank blows my mind. I've much to learn and this is a great resource / support. Best! Melissa

Wow. Really? Awesome! Never heard of a spaghetti worm. Might you know the carb content in one of those? :-) :grabs marinara sauce:

Thanks Hack! You instill such confidence :sigh: ;-)

I dunno.... Looks like it might have perimeter breaching capabilities to me! :-)

I found this creature crawling up the inside of my DT this afternoon. Thin tubular body with yellowish color and many, many fine hairlike articulating appendages (?)... What do you guys think? Will it crawl outta my tank and put a tube down my throat? Hehe