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Ok so I come home from oot last night to find a bug looking thing on my front glass. Never seen it or anything like it before, it has six legs, antennas,, and a tail that looks like hair, he is like a transluscent red in color and about a centemeter 1/2 long.... Any ideas? Will it hurt my tank??

Looking for 50g or bigger, no bigger than 100g. In ft worth texas, want for sw dt, currently have ten gal and really want to upgrade. I dont really want to spend over a couple hundred. But I am pretty negotiable... Thanks!

Ok so I have a bunch of algae on my glass that I would like to get off but I dont wanna kill or hurt all the pods... Is there a way to do this? Ill post pics of the tank, pods and cleaning utensil. Thanks for all advice please

Ok so I finally got a hood for my 10g HOWLR and will post pics asap, but right now Im running half 15w Incandescent bulb and half 25w flourescent bulb, I have no Corals and no fish, and 3 hermits and a few astrea starfish.. my question is: Would it be better for me to have LEDs? I've heard...

Something I just found out yesterday.... I have fixed my BIGGEST problem and didnt even know it WAS a problem... SUBSTRATE!! I have had play sand in my tank since the beginning... who knows WHAT it's been releasing into my tank. So, yesterday I did a complete do-over, took everything out of my...

Jut added a new album with "current" Pics, srry about the quality, taken with blackberry phone lol Lemme know any thoughts or anything!!

Ok well after the test on 12/03/10 Calium:700ppm,KH:179ppm,Phosphates:5.0, and Nitrates:20 using an API Master Test Kit I did about a 60% PWC and took out half of my sandbed<<will get new pics posted this week... I re-tested on 12/06/10 and here are those results Calcium:800ppm, KH:214.8ppm...

How do Hermit Crabs and "Crab" Crabs go together? would it work? like, if I went and got a "small" specie of crab, would they live in harmony? or would one eat the other or fight... thanks in advance! -Brett

Ok so I took my second water test and I got Nitrate:160, Nitrite:1, Alk.:180, PH:8.0-- so I did about a 50% water change and cleaned almost all the algae off the glass, my temp stays btwn 78-81 or 82 degrees, and I've noticed even before the test that my Starfish were disappearing! I cant find...

Ok so on 11/15/10 I took my own water test and the results are as follows: PH-7.0 Alkaline-180 Hardness(is this for SW or FW?)-1000 Nitrate-40 Nitrite-0.5 From what the packaging says, these are more or less ideal measurements. But on the package it says "Good for Freshwater" but the way I...

How often do hermit crabs molt? is there a time table or something graphted?

Ok so I found out what kind of Frag I have :D Its an Acan Echinata! and I am sure its living, I maoved it today b/c my gf bought me a heater for my tank so I installed it and moved the frag over on top of a rock slab I have leaning against the back glass panel... good b/c its closer to the...

Ok so I have 3, count it, 3! hermit crabs, as far as I know they are stripped legged hermits "fish-killers"... wellll.... I woke up this morning to a shocking surprise. There is one out of its shell and it looks dead!! It doesnt look exactly whole, I mean, all the parts are there but it looks as...

I have a very small peice of coral and I need to know. How do I tell if it's Alive or not?

So, I went to the LFS and here is what I got for my tank (and hermies) :) I will be putting up before and after pics when I get the after pics and the cycling is done which I'm just waiting 3 days for b/c tomorrow (day 3) I'm changing water and putting the Hermits back in... I just wanted to...

Ok so I have these hermits that I pulled straight out of the ocean at Corpus Christi. I can't seem to find anything definite on these things (e.g.- There are mor than 1 name for them, Lamens AND Scientific) so I'm curious if ANYONE knows anything about these things! I've heard them dubbed as...

Hi, I'm Brett and also a member of reefsanctuary.com, which is a great site but they aren't helpful enough at the moment.. Here are the specs. of my aquarium. So, I have a 10 gal. tank 1/3 full of sand and then saltwater to the top. In it I have .6 pound of live-rock with 3 hermit crabs and...