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I had an Emerald Crab for a long time and it was very peaceful, it would run around the edges of the tank and night and go about its life without disturbing anything. It molted and then was promptly was eaten by tankmates with no prior warning a few months back. Three weeks ago I bought...

Ok, so two weeks ago, my Mushroom Leathers looked like this: Not the best Leathers around, but healthy and opening daily. Now, a few things have happened: 0) The front Mushroom got big enough to touch the back one. The back one appears to be shedding extra fast where they could have...

I have not posted much in a while, however I used to be a very regular poster on these boards. Then I had a baby and all that fun stuff so real life too over for a while :) Figured I would share some new pics of my tank. In the last few months I have gone from a 15H FOWLR with minimal...

First up, long time no see! Over the last couple months, I have been super busy because my wife had our first baby! I will be posting on a regular basis again now :) I started my tank off with Tropic Marin salt because I was told it was "the best". It went great for the first weeks, but...

Last night at 7PM I lost power at my house. Outside temp was about 20F, winds gusting the 40mph and snow was coming down very rapidly which is bad news for getting the power reconnected in a hurry :( This did not phase me a bit, since I had a rackmount 1400VA APC UPS unit ready and waiting...

I can not get any good results with my AC300 fuge at all. See here: At first I was turning the Chaeto a bit brown from too much light. I lowered the time of the light, now hair algae it taking over inside the fuge. I am not find a good combination of getting the Chaeto to grow without a...

My Remora skimmer was working pretty good for a few weeks, then the skimmate output just sort of went away. I was not getting much of anything in the cup, even at the lowest setting. I thought I was potentially out of stuff to skim. I cleaned the collection cup and the Maxi-Jet 1200 with no...

A while ago, WhiteCloud told me about a LFS in Maine called AquaCorals. They do mostly internet business apparently, since they are only open 3 days a week for a few hours each day, check out the website here: www.aquacorals.com Anyway, this place is about 45 minutes to an hour from my house...

Three days ago I picked up my first corals. One was a rock with two Mushroom Toadstools on in, the other is a small group of Green Metallic Star Polyps. Everything is going fairly well with the Star Polyps and one Mushroom was full opened. The other Mushroom was shedding which can be normal...

I have 4 or 5 small spots on a Clown, it has been that way for a couple weeks now. The spots are around the face an mouth. The spots never seem to do anything, but it looks like Ich. Since the Trophonts stage of Ich is only 7 days, if this was Ich the spots should have moved by now. If it...

I have some Chaeto in my AC300 fuge: The light is a 15w 6500K daylight bulb angled over the AC300. The Chaeto is growing and I have already pruned it once after a few days. Now, the top of the Chaeto is turning slighty brown where the growth it happening. I measured it last night and again...

A recent poll showed almost 90% of the Saltware & Reef posters use a portein skimmer of one type or another. Even with that, skimmer comparisons are few and far between with little evidence of how effective one type is over another. Most people go through skimmers until they find one that...

I picked up a Serpent Star last weekend to help with my clean up. The LFS told me I could try feeding it fresh fish, so I went out and bought some Cod. I cut a piece about 1/4 inch by 1/2 inch and poked the Star in the leg with it. Right away, it took the Cod, wrapped itself around the Cod...

I found someone giving away Chaeto local to me on another forum. I met him last week and he gave me a big bag of nice green chaeto with some Pod life and a 2 inch Bristleworm. I do not have a sump yet until I get a larger tank, so I did the standard conversion of turning my AC300 filter into...

I need a bigger heater so I am thinking about picking up a 100w WON Pro Heat Titanium Heater locally for $24. My only concern is that it might get too hot for a snail to be crawling on? I have no experience with these heaters.

In my rather limited experience with this skimmer, it seems to work much better once the collection cup neck is slimed up on the inside. The AquaC directions indicate that you should clean the collection cup and the cup next as often as possible to produce better skimmate. I completeley...

Just some tank shots and random stuff in my 15H tank. It is 4 months old and pretty stable. Soon I will begin buying some corals to start turning this into a reef tank. Full tank shot (with flash): Another tank shot (no flash): Astrea Snail cleaning a Cerith Snail (with flash): I...

Me regarding the freezing fish in baggies: BillyZ Yeah, inflamatory. Thanks for being clear when I had NO intention of being inflamaroty. Someone one a power trip today or what???

Reference other thread, pages 5 + 6: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=37836&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 My Clownfish likely has Brooklynella (Thanks QS!), I called every LFS in my range and none have Formalin in stock. The LFS I usually go to reccomended a freshwater dip and...

I had a couple of bright green sponges in my tank, growing very slowly but they were neat to look at. Yesterday, I caught two Keyhole Limpets on one of the sponges, just figured they were wandering. Instead of wandering, they ate the whole Sponge. A couple months ago, I suspected the Limpets...

I saw a few of these for sale at a PetCo last week, but have not heard anything about them. I did not have time to check them out much, but it looks like a Penguin 330 with larger Bio Wheels and a higher flow rate. As a side note, aquarium companies freaking suck at spreading information about...

I bought a Peppermint Shrimp about a week and a half ago. It was about 1.5 inches long, nice looking Shrimp that was acting normal in the LFS. Drip acclimated it for about 90 minutes and put it in the tank. I saw it for one day, running around the tank eating stuff on the LR and doing shrimpy...

I am looking for a prebuilt package or selection of corals to get me started. Locally, corals are very $$$ compared to buying over the internet. Since I would like to start with three or four types at once, I can get the corals shipped to me and save a lot of money. www.liveaquaria.com has a...

My freshwater tank has hit the point where it is so stable and predictable, it has become boring. I have the tank down to an science now, the water is always perfect, the fish are always looking good. I have not purchased any new fish in the last six months or so, and in that time, only one...

My saltwater tank got its Remora + MJ1200 today for a holiday gift. I already have some skimmer on the tank, the Remora is to replace that one and allow me some additional space on the tank along with being overflow proof and it should look better since the tank is in a baby room. Current...