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Try the coke bottle trick, or if the tank is small you can use a 20 oz plastic soda bottle too. It works every time for shrimp, and on small fish as well. I have not kept peppermint or camel shrimp in years because I don't like it when they hide all the time. I have had skunk, fire and...

Yeah, I have turbos too. You buy them small, about half an inch or so, and a few years later you have these rather large inch-to-two inch snails that are very strong and can pull stuff down in your tank. I guess it is a trade off of sorts - these things are efficient, long-lived snails and...

I had a sailfin tang years ago and the personality of those guys is AWESOME. My sailfin used to eat out of my hand, and even let me pet him! I miss mine too, I'm sorry for your loss. I have a purple tang in my tank with a regal blue tang. As far as personality goes, my purple is just as...

I love this board!!!!! I guess about 20 years ago some german guy found that if you put a kick butt protien skimmer on a fish tank with nothing else for filtration at all, but had a LOT of live rock in there, you didn't really need anything else. They call this the 'berlin' method, you may...

velvet nudibranch eats these things - and ONLY these things, so if you don't have them, you can't keep one. They also only live for about six months best case, so I would go this route before I put poison in my tank, but that is just me. I have been looking for one of these for a few months-...

I saw something you wrote that kind of stood out to me about your wanting to medicate the tank with tangs. Here is my 2 cents ok? If you are going to put snails and hermits in there to clean up, copper will sure kill them dead quick. You are better off with a UV sterilizer and/or cleaner...

All the hermits will kill snails for their shells, if you don't have any shells available for them. Scarlets are better than most for NOT killing snails. I would stick with any of the hermits that stay very small. Any hermit that gets bigger than an inch or so will normally 'change...

Well, I have a scary experience to tell here. A long time ago, I had as primary filtration on my 55 gallon salt tank a big canister filter. I still have it, in the garage, if anyone wants it.... lol. Anyway, the seal was not seated properly and when I plugged it in, it shot a stream of salt...

I have a watchman in my 24 gallon nano. He will chase food about 6 inches or so from his hole, but that is about it. I use the sinking pellets and drop it in the filter overflow and that knocks it everywhere. I only feed the tank once a week or so, I have pods on the live rock that keep him...

There are a ton of things you can get for that tank and light setup. Sponges, gorgonians, sun corals, sea squirts, etc. HOWEVER all will require target feeding and that can be real bad for your water quality in a tank that small. Most of these guys don't have any light requirements at all...

From my experience you will have to do the water changes and pray. I have done everything mentioned above, but the water changes and siphoning out the chunks of slime is what does the best. I would recommend falling ALL the advice above, i.e. check water, lights, flow, etc. Next, siphon off...

Ok, I just have to toss my 2 cents into this lively debate. I have collected animals from the coast of NC for many, many years. Not comercial, but a few here and a few there for my own tanks. Most notable things I have collected from the south coast of North Carolina. Blue striped hermit...

I have a med-large purple tang and have had him for 2 years. 6 inches at purchase, 8 inches right now. He lives with a Regal/pacific blue/Palatte/Hippo (pick your name) tang in a 100 gallon. They get along fine, but only because Hippo tangs are VERY mellow. Purple tangs are...

I kept a porc for a few years a long time ago... back in the dark ages of this hobby. The porc will be fine with *most* fish. anyting that it *might* think was a snack, like a royal gramma, would be bad. A mandrin might be ok, I do belive they are mildly toxic. Check on that. I do know...

Here is a trick you can use to get rid of them on LR you add to your system. After/before you cure your LR ( I do it both times) mix a small bucket worth of salt water SUPER salty. I mean off the scale salty. max that puppy out on the hydometer. Take the LR chunk, get your tweesers ready...

I have read a lot of good and a lot of bad about phosphate removers. Since you seem to be doing a lot of the right things, I would look at your new lights and possible overfeeding as a source for the explosion. My personal approach to 99% of problems like you have is to get something that eats...

hey, I don't mean to be a killjoy or anything but GET A QT TANK You will save yourself a TON of heartache in the long run. Get a $30 wallmart special plastic 5 gallon tank, put some sand or gravel from the main tank in there, just enough to coat the bottom of the thing and some water from the...

who eats pods? Here is my short list of known pod eaters, from my personal observations. You don't HAVE to just get a mandrin. Remember, you have to sustain that population to keep a mandrin alive. Same for a seahorse. If you have any of these fish, or get them, they will dent that...

I have noticed that my bi colors did not start eating the meaty foods until they were in the tank for a couple of months. These guys are grazers, and so long as you have a decent amount of live rock for him to 'snack' on he should be fine. I would put a bit of dried seeweed in there once a...

if price is no object, then knock yourself out. I'm cheap, so I tried the powerstrip timer thing hooked up to 3 powerhead that alternate on and off, it works great.

I have done both. I set up a 55 and then a 75 with a HOB unit and when I stepped up the 100 gallon I now have, I got that tank drilled with internal overflow. First of all, let me say, you can have a HOB unit that never has any issues, ever. I had mine up and running for maybe 4 years, and...

Coral banded are the meanest of the shrimp, I would advise against it in anything smaller than a 75, with a LOT of LR for them to hang out in. The main thing with CBS is that even though they don't have a lot of mass, they take up a large amount of space with those claws and whatnot, when...

I have never seen it, but I have read these guys are jumpers. I would be careful.

I have had a bi color in my tanks for years - the wife loves them. It got along with my midas in 100gallon, but they were not 'friends' - if the midas came too close to the spot the bi-color was perching on, the bi-color got nasty. Other than that, my bi-colors over the years have been one of...

these things are strange. They can grow like weeds for months and then die back all of a sudden, when everything else in the tank is doing just fine. I got ONE frag about a year ago, and they grew until there were almost a dozen of them. I had to move some rock arround the tank, and shortly...