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Have Blue Max/Croc for 1week now and has substrate rock chunk attached to basil opening or very close by. Appears very healthy and full under 175w 10k halide in 20g Nano with 4" of sand bed. He/she is on its side right now and that way for a week, (it must like it too?) OR should it go more...

Received these snail's and are cool looking, However, I do have a Blue Clam Which is full and healthy, But some of these snails like hovering around it and near the basil opening! Will they attack!! or is it a indication that clam is dying, had clam for 1week now under Metal 175w Halide Water is...

Oh the flesh is whitish in color, not purple, and deffinatly Green Star Type Polyps

Picked up some of these @ the LFS and thought I had them before, but they call it Barrium or somthing very simalar in spelling, when the polyps retracted it looks like tonga branch rocK 1/2 the size of a pencil in like a maze made of rubbery flesh not the rubbery deep purple flesh encrusting a...

I had to QT my Blue Regal/Hippo tang for 2 weeks in copper solution so a tank, heater, powerhead, and PVC or clay pot for it to hide in. and copper test kit! and many many water changes, just monitor the Ammonia level also. the larger the tank the better. I could not control the Ammonia and had...

Defiantly! "Joes Juice" made a believer of me! Had 100+ I ordered it through web and there all dead except a few. My new Copperband Butterfly that is in QT needs something to eat when he comes out in a few day's My peppermint shrimp are on strike since they were purchased. But from 100+ to mabye...

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While the reef comes alive at night has anybody experimented on the best shade of color lens for flashlight spotting as not to scare them critters that abound on the reef at night. Is it Blue?, Red?, Yellow? Green? ETC.

Does anybody know where I can get a hood/reflector ONLY for my Halide 175w hamilton 10k temp bulb that I can install this bulb and/or socket. I have ballast,bulb and socket. the hood should be squarish/rectangular and not a round pendent but similar. Thanks, by the way thanks for the info on...

Found the articale that I was looking for. It is a asterina anomala and found only 2. There may be more, feed at night. Harloquin shrimp is the natural predator. It does feed on corals, soft and hard. Mostly polyp stonys. Articale credit: Seascope, volume 18, Summer 01

Found 2 of these on my rock and heard they could be dangerous to corals they are about the size of the letters on this page. Is this the type that eats soft corals (It is not a brittle star) :?:

Thanks a mill that is a fantastic link defiantly saved to favorites! Ive looked under 400x mag with a hobby scope and you would not belive the stuff thats in there. will look again to see if anything correlates, I did find a spot on the (CBB) He's out and in QT so now 75% water change on QT and...

I 'm sure everybody has delt with this at some point or another, but forgot the web page reference that I was looking @ and while in the termont stage (Free Swimming) what they resembled under a microscope . Remember that it talked about this and said to swirl a bucket of water from a change and...

Well the copperband is ok in the 75 gall setup, and is picking at the rocks, either at baby spore's of apitaisia or coepods. Was told by expeireanced refers that they will help, and one true testimonial. The fish is only a week old and is eating. I also have 6 peppermints but is overwhelming to...

Is this Copper Banded Butterfly Fish a good eater of this stuff or does it just eat worms?