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I have been fighting what can only be described as a "battle" of wills with my four MP1200 for several years. They are plugged into my wavemaker and attached to the walls of my tank with suction cups. Every so often they will launch themselves off my walls and at my corals or poor anenome as the...

Thanks everyone for your really speedy responses. I haven't used the forum in a while and I had forgotten how helpful everyone is. Even for seemingly daft questions like mine :lol: I intend to use a sand bed of approx. 2 inches. I have heard that the finer sand can sometimes go hard and...

Please help me make an informed decision... I want to change the substrate (currently crushed coral) in my reef tank for either TMCs "coral sand" with 1-2mm particle sizes or Caribsea's "sugar sand" with 0.2-1.2mm particle sizes. What does everyone else use in their tanks please? I'm...

Thanks for the replies. Sorry Edmonton Eskimo, I don't understand your post. I thought halogen bulbs were MH? And I don't have a ballast, least not that I'm aware of. Though I'm not entirely sure what a ballast is in the context of marine tanks. I conceed that I know little more about lighting...

Hi all, Haven't posted in a while but am after a bit of advice. Hope you can help. I have an arcadia series 3 pendant light system with 2 x 30watt acintics and 2 x 150watt double ended metal halides with an Rx7s lamp cap. I need to replace all my bulbs but am dreading the cost of the halides...

Hi Steve. Sorry i sould have said. My tank is 100 gallons. I also forgot to add I have been adding a vitamin supplement along with the garlic guard (but not on an everyday basis). He seems very interested in the food just doesn't seem to be eating enough to sustain his weight. He gets just as...

Hi all, Wondered if any one had any advice for treating a shrinking yellow clown goby? He is sharing my large leather coral with my two clown fish who treat him as their pet. I have a green one who is very happy and normal. I'm convinced he is getting longer and thinner each week. He eats (all...

Should have mentioned. My clowns COMPLETELY ignored the leather and BTA when they were first introduced. Carried on as if nothing had been added, almost as if they didn't exist. Most of my fish/invertebrates will investigate a new arrival but not my clowns they don't even look in it's direction...

Don't know if you are still interested in responses. My clowns moved into my Bubble Tipped Anenome within 22 hours. (I think this is possibly a one off as everyone I have spoken to has been pretty shocked). Prior to that they were hosting with a large leather coral which took about 3 weeks for...

Thanks Lando, To be honest I can't remember what lighting it was under. The shop was tiny filled wall to wall with tanks and I have to say it's the best shop I have ever been to. It was extremely bright (and very warm). I'll give the owner a call tomorrow and ask. It probably is this. No coral...

Hi all, I'm wondering if I could get some advice on my bubble tipped anenome. I bought him last weekend after nearly 6 months of deliberating with the idea. Though I had done my research on their needs, I have found it very difficullt to find information on their behaviour to find out if his...

Excellent - my birthday pressie request is sorted. I'm not certain that I can wait until March though. Might have to bribe my boyfriend for valentines :lol: Thanks again Liz

Hi Lando, Thanks for the quick reply. My tank is stacked almost wall to wall with live rock guessing about 100lb of Live rock. I've had the tank for the last 9 months but bought it fully set up from a collegue who'd had it set up for two years. Prior to that set up in a 60 gallon tank. So it's...

If that's the case I love munching critters. I'd just never heard of hermits doing this and wondered whether I'd overlooked this almightly flaw when making my purchase.

Hi all, I would really like to get a mandarin (or two) for my 120 gallon set up. I understand that mandarins spend alot, if not all, of their time on the bottom eating pods etc ... Does the type of substrate matter or rather does the sand bed have to be really fine sand as opposed to the coral...

Thanks everyone. I have blue legs, red legs and mexican red tips and none have ever bothered with coralline algae but these electrics are enormous. I did drop some crab pellets in and some algae flakes but they just went straight for the "good stuff" :twisted: These crabs are beautiful - but...

Hi all, I have just added two LARGE electric blue hermits to my tank and they are demolishing my coraline algae. I realise that they may be hungry as they have been in the post the last 24 hrs and this is the first food they have come across but I'm just wondering if they are notorious for this...

Thank you Steve for all your help you have been brillinat (and patient). I'll follow your advice - it makes a lot of sense. (My Dad is busy laughing at the nylon stalking - he already thinks I'm turning into a Gnome what with the little stall I sit on to watch the tank. One day I'll persuade...

Thanks the bit. It doesn't appear to have any other symptoms - just seems to be dying. I've had it for a month (the bare bit was bare all along - it hasn't receeded much more than a few polyps (maybe 5 - inc the ones you can see here) Thanks Liz

Hi Steve, The bit I have the problem with is the pale almost white part between the bare receeded part and the still healthy part. The very bottom of the bit you have circled. The fleshy part of the coral isn't touching anything but I will reconsider it's position if this may be irritating it...

Hello again, It has taken me until now to get a decent photo of the affected area. The first photo is from today and the second is from yesterday. It just looks though parts have died (nothing else visibly wrong with it). All fish, inverts and other corals are fine. Hope you can help. Thanks

Hi Steve, Not at the moment no because I pulled the affected bit off. The area around it is covered by extended tentacles so i can't see the affected area properly - even at night because its not been receeding as it should since I pulled that bit off. I'll post a pic if I get a chance. Do you...

It's odd because most articles and sites say that "brown jelly infections" are brown in colour - thats not what i have. However you are right about seeming like pulling the guts away. perhaps its just a dead polyp which has been colonised by opportunistic microbes. (I'm living in hope as i...

Hi again I've just tried sucking some off with a smalll pippette to no avail. However I got my tweezers to it and the infected part came off really easily in one go and appeared as if it were part of the coral as it continued to pull up from inside the coral skeleton. I've had the coral for...

Thanks for the quick reply. Secretly I was hoping for good news but I knew it wasn't going to be so. Do you know what the disease is? Has anyone else had any experience with a successful cure? Thanks again Liz