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I noticed 2 of these polyps, both coming out right at the base of the roakc where it meets the sand. I've never ever seen them before and I have no idea what they are. There's a pic of them in photo2 and photo 3. The strange orange worms are all over the place. Sand, LR, everywhere. They have a...

I'm brainstorming, figuring out what I'd best want, etc, etc. So here it is. I want acrylic. GARF says 1/2" acrylic. Think this is sufficient? Anyways, this is the plan. It will be in a corner wall, ideally in a living room arrangement. Plumbing will go down into the basement. The dark blue...

I'm going to try not to make this a novel...but here goes. I currently have a 125gallon tank, with a lot of corals (about 23+ xenias, some SPS, and a huge star polyp mat, a nice Torch), one mid-size (I'd say 7-8" long) Tridacna Deresa, and one baby (4" long) Tridacna Crocea. A pistol shrimp, 2...

I posted one in the Classifieds, but I figured it'd get more exposure here. Does anyone know of a good online retailer that sells relatively small inexpensive SPS frags? I like to watch them grow and mature, so size doesn't bother me. Like Montipora Caps, M. Digitata, and Acros. If anyone...

Anyone have any small frags of M. Digitata, M. Capricornis, or any Acros? If not, anyone know of a good site that sells tiny, inexpensive frags ('cause I like to grow 'em myself!)? Thanks!

So, it's time to replace the sediment filter, the 3 different carbon filters, and the DI resin. So my question is, does the DI resin remove Phosphates (I'm getting about 1ppm) from the water, or is that the RO unit? The RO unit, per recommendations of the company, should be replaced every 2-3...

So, in my sump, where there is no bright light...and sometimes no light...I have lots of strange critters. 1. Calcareous tubes...red fans. Look like red feather-duster worms, but with very thick stoney tubes. 2. Something FUNKY that is growing near the bottom in a little niche. Looks like a...

OK, so my tank has been up for a long time. About 1 year. I absolutely cannot get this crap to go away. At night, it disappears...leaves the substrate, and the glass, and the rock. As soon as those halides come on, wham, it's everywhere again. It's a reddish-brown, slimey, and the "hair" kinda...

Does anybody know a good spot to find some Green/Orange/Bue Zoos or Button Polyps? I'd prefer small "frags", a few polyps, so I can watch them grow...but a decent place that's not too expensive is what I'm hunting. It might be time to hit the LFS again, but I was wondering if anyone knows of any...

Hello, haven't been around in a while...really busy. My tank has been experiencing some flow problems though. The cyano comes back in all the low-flow spots, and I don't like the setup. So as much as I had hoped to avoid it, I'm redoing the aquascaping. The large 80gal rubbermaid will become the...

OK, so what I heard termed "caterpillar weed" or something like that...has gone crazy. I started off without about 5 little stalks that didn't do much for about 6 months. I had an algae bloom (phosphates got into the water...since using PhosGuard and the algae is not growing back) and these...

So, a beautiful baby tang that I rescued from a LFS was sucked into my powerhead. Not where you might think though. It's a Powersweep by zoomed...a self-rotating head alternates the current. I've been ultra-happy with it until now. There's a whell to adjust the amount of flow...and apparently...

What's the difference between fish from different areas? I'm placing a liveaquaria.com order ... I want a Citrinis Clown Goby...I can get one from Sri Lanka or the Coral Sea....what's the difference between the two? On the true perculas, I can choose Solomon Islands or Papua/New Guinea. The...

So, I'm looking into getting a nice tang. I'm curious, and I want to know your opinions: 1. Which tang would you rank best for algae consumption? 2. Which tang would you rate as the prettiest, without being very difficult to care for? 3. Which has a nicer personality (it's going in with...

So, in the article hosted on this site, it says that antibiotics may be used to treat for cyanobacteria if it becomes a problem. I have no idea what's going on in my tank, but the cyano broke out like wildfire a few days ago. There's nasty algae growing all over, and it's ridiculous. My 2...

I bought a nice (large) heliofungia at the LFS today. I'd been eye-ing him for a week, and I took him home today. He wasn't the healthiest looking one there, but he wasn't unhealthy. When happy, he's a nice swirl of metallic purple and metallic green. His tentacles weren't as inflated as much as...

So, I've got this really cool torch. When inflated, it's larger than a softball. It has 11 seperate "heads." Anyways, it seems very disinterested in any food it seems to catch. The fish food pellets...pulls them right in, then releases them in a mucousy mass. Same with the pieces of silversides...

So, I mixed up some kalk mix last night. Let it sit overnight, I went to look at it this morning, and it's a nice milky white. I thought the white was supposed to settle onto the bottom of the container. Am I supposed to drip it like this, is this what it looks like? I thought all the solid...

I read somewhere that they will eat clams. I also read somewhere else that this is a misconception. This person felt the clams were on their way out, and clams go quickly they said, often overnight. This left the aquarist to wake up and find bristleworms scurrying out of the new-empty clam...

I'm insane. I really am. I've had my 125 for, oh, 6 months? I'm already wishing it was larger. So, I like GARF's little script that generates cut sizes. The instructions are a bit lacking, as is to be expected with such a generic program for giving tank building directions, as each size will...

I've got an odd black fuzz that is all over my tank. It happened, literally, overnight. It's not covering everything, but it is dispersed throughout the tank, and it appears to be anchored. The overflow tube ... yeah, completely black. The only thing that's gone into the tank recently was a...

I'm looking into getting a few(10ish) lbs. of GARF grunge, and maybe some (5ish lbs.) of GARF grunge plus. I have a Deresa clam...and since I love how cool the tridacnas are, it's probably the first of a few. I read that bristleworms will eat the clams, and I currently have none in my tank. Does...

So, my beautiful Deresa clam is on the substrate. Medium-grain aragonite sand. He's about 20" under a 250w MH 10,000K, though not directly under it. I'm wondering if this is a good spot for him. Do Deresa like to be on rocks, or sand? Do you think I should move him to mid-tank on some rock, or...

Over at florida-aqua-farms.com they have the micro algae disks for growing your own phyto culture. It's all good, and I got great plans on setting up a culture system here: http://www.sjwilson.net/reef My question is, they offer several different species. Which do I want? They have...

I did a water test today, and the alk was "High." It's a Red Sea test kit (I know, I know, I'm going to Salifert) so that's all it gave me was "High." The Ca is @ ~500ppm. The pH is 8.6 Is there anything dangerous about high alk and Ca levels? I know that pH is terribly high, so what should I...