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ok so if you read my post in the main forum, my tank caught fire and im leaving the hobbie. here are the things i have for sale. please get a hold of me ASAP if you want any corals, as i will be selling them back to the fish store if noone wants them. i will know for sure on tuesday what...

well i havent been on in a while but here is what just happened to me so i get home from a week in vegas and my houe is filled with burnt plastic smoke, the hardwood floor has lots of water on it. the electrical part of my tank must have caught fire, the fire broke the tank and the water...

so this is a pic of my purple tang about a week and a half ago igot a powder blue, he came down with ick and i started using vitimins and garlic, i have a cleaner shrimp and UV and other fish had gotten a few spots and then were ok one they got adjusted to their new environment. so i thought...

ok...so check my info for my specifics...first ill try to discribe my flow/filtration in the far left corner i have the suction for the fuval (pads, ceramic and carbon) and the skimmer. on the far right i have the three powerheads at various depths, one aimed in the middle, one behind the...

so this coral isnt opening, been like that for about 2 weeks. yes levels are all fine...reg wc everything else is fine the only thing i can guess is my purple tang was nipping at it..so i moved it to a location that the purple tang cant get to because of his size, but it still doesnt open...

so my zoo frag has attached to the rock i put it on. so before i do anything, im asking can i cut with an exacto blade the frag from the rock and just let the rock get populated, then put the frag on another rock to populate it the same way so i have 2 new rocks populated? thanks first time...

so i got a tort SPS and the polyps have not shown. they were fine at the LFS and i slowly aclimated it amon 0 nitrate 0 nitrite 0 ph 8.2 temp 78-80 calc 450 alk 3.5 i have 5.4 watts per gal are there any reasons why polyps wont show? thanks

just starting on my calf sleave....here is the first 4 hours and yes that frogspawn is on my ankel, and yes it hurt.

so i have had my Coral Beauty in Hypo for 2 weeks (refract 14ppt 1.009). reg water changes, ph 8.4, amon=0, alk=5.5 meq/l he is not swimming as much, not eating as much, and looks really fat. he also has his scales are puffed out. spending 95% time in the pvc. i know the alk is high, but how...

so i reciently found a bunch of these tiny snails. i counted about 30-40 mostly on the sand. but also on the glass, rock, zoos. discription: they are brownish/white in color some darker than others. the shell is long in shape, looks like the shells the small hermit crabs are in. the "foot"...

what do you think of this glass sculpture for tanks i made? i am experimenting with some other colors and shapes would you put something like this in your tank? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250019522144&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=015

ok so i have three frags of zoos two green sets(10 polups) and one yellow(5 polups). i got them all at the same time about 7 weeks ago. the two green ones have doubled in # of polups....the yellow one has not grown any new polups and has been closed for the last 2 weeks. i have been looking at...

is there a list or can someone post a list of the fish species that can stay in a display tank during hypo in a qt. i have heard blennnies and manderins....any more?

so i have this skimmer hooked up with a mag 3 for almost 4 weeksn now....it collects about 1/4" of scum in 2-3 days. but it is still producing tons of microbubbles and is still about as loud as day one. any suggestions/help would be appreceated? my LFS said ist that the "oils" are still on the...

i found one of my large (2") snail dead, hasnt moved in a few days and well its not alive. should i leave it in there for the crabs to eat? or should i remove it. i cant get the body out of the shell with tweasers but i want to leave the shell available for the crabs to habitat some day. thanks

i have been thinking of a UV to prevent parisites I would like to hook it up to my Fuval 405 (aprox 340 gal/hr with pads, carbon, and bio-cylinders as recomended) im thinking 36-40 watts??? or will a 24 watt work? 100gal, i could add another powerhead for flow but i dont really want any more...

i have had this angel for 1 week and he has been looking ok untill today i think i see some spots on him..it looks like ich? all my othe fish look clean. so should i just remove him and treat? with what? i have a 10g QT that has been set up for 2-3 weeks now...

so i came home to a very cloudy tank today....my Aqua C remora Pro was the culperate. i guess i didnt have the little black strap that tightens the tube onto the pump tight enough because the pump had fallen and was in the sand blowing sand all over the place. I managed to get most of the sand...

so i seached for this and didnt find much....i gues not alot of people us fuvals im running a 405 and a aqua remora c Pro on a 100gal with 70# LR and 2 1200 maxijets my question is how much carbon and ceramic cylinders (bio media) do i need? is there a measurement/recomendation? right now i...

found this on the rocks...is it good or bad? looks like a brown snail with a realy small shell thanks

check out my info...do i have enough of a cleanup crew with the equip/fish i have? i still want to get 1-2 cleaner shrimp and 1 blenny. thanks

i continually see two live blue leg dwarf hermitcrabs "face to face" or opening to opening usually a larger shell with a smaller shell are they fighting? or mating? thanks

just checking to see that this is an UNharmfull featherduster that came in on a new small rock. thanks

i just set up my remora Pro. any suggestions on how high the collection cup should be? how long before it starts creating foam? man that pump is big... thanks

so my goby has been behaving very different reciently. he was very active, perching on the rocks and sand spending lots of time in view. now he hides in a cave most of the time...when he is out he hangs out in a top corner near the surface mostly vertical. and sometimes he swims real fast...