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In case it wasn't clear in my first post...I caught it in the ocean...It is native to S. Florida.

Please help ID this fish. I caught it locally in West Palm Beach. I think it may be Elacatinus genie (cleaner gobie). Can anyone confirm this ID? Also, does anyone have any experience with them in their tanks? My six line is chasing the **** out of it, and if this is a cleaner gobie of some...

Good ideas, all, and thanks again for your efforts. I'm going to take it back to its home. It's spent the past two nights pulling itself through my sand bed, foot planted firmly on the bottom glass and making a furrow in the sand with its head, "chasing" a small colony of cup coral. I moved...

It's funny to see the differences in online communities... Lots of newbies say things like, "Buy a harpoon boy if that is aipasia you are screwed" Then there are moderators on other sites with 4000+ posts: "Phyllactis flosculifera uncommon caribbean sand dwelling anemone similar in behavior...

Since I pulled it out of sand and rubble, and held it in my hands, I'm 100% sure it's not an aiptasia. It closed up on itself like an anenome. It has an opaque basal disc with a distict foot like an anenome. It is mobile (moving around in the sand, trying to eat my cup coral) like an...

Aiptasia doesn't have a 1" diameter opaque (yellow) basal disc ("foot"). I'm still googling around... Maybe a collared sand anemone (Phyllactis flosculifera)?

Does anyone know what kind of anenome this is? Anyone have any experience with them in a reef tank, especially a nano? I caught it Sunday in about 8 feet of water, in some sand and rubble near a rocky area off of Singer Island (S. Florida, Atlantic coast). It has a yellow basal disc, about 1"...

I've been losing snails too, and I couldn't figure out why... I also have seen a white slug-like creature in my tank. Coincidence? If I see it again, I'll post a picture.

I don't have room for a sponge prefilter for my return pump. Its a rio 1700, squeezed in a corner next to the skimmer, facing down to get the inlet as low as possible. I do have room to wedge in a bit more sponge there, and it does help some... Ideally, I'd like to get rid of all sponges in...

I have a "Proclear Aquatic Motorized 75" skimmer in my sump/refuge. The skimmer sits in the sump side (with the return pump), and returns water with bubbles back into the refuge side. My problem is, too many of the bubbles make their way through the bubble trap weir and sponge (that separates...

Thanks everyone. I'll move it higher in the tank, away from others, and direct more flow over it. I'll let you know how it goes...