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I have a friend with a 135 gal tank that has been running for 2yrs plus, in it he has 16 2-3, inch angel fish, 5 dime sized fish he calls selvineys and one 10" chocolate pleco. The filtration is 2 of those waterfall type filters that were ordered because the lfs don't carry the big ones, and a...

I'm just curious as to how many people from NE are here. Just take a second and say hi, where your at and a tank pic or two. I'll start my name is jeremy, live in Lincoln and have a reef tank.

we have had colts in our tank for almost a year and the have grown to about 16 inches tall and split many times. they now look like bushes in the tank. well here is my question one of the smaller branches near the base of one is started drooping two days ago and now looks to be melting into a...

does anybody know what a baby pepermint shrimp looks like? I came home from work tonight and found around 300 specs swirling around in a corner of our 120. After closer inspection they are some kind of shrimp they have eyes, tenticals, tails and long front arms where claws should be, they are...

our tank has been set up for about ayear and a half now and we check alot of water paramaters weekly. About 6 months ago I was dripping kalkwasser and having to use minor amounts of turbo calcium to keep the cal. levels around 425ppm. Now atleast 5 months have gone by without any suppliment...

I have a question for the pro's. We have had our orange ricordia for 6 months and it is finaly splitting in two or posibly three. The problem is when we bought it, it was on a rock that is only the about one inch in diameter. Now it is about 5 inches when fully extended and we would like to...

we switched from photoshop awhile ago and I am trying to change my avatar and when I try it comes back file too big. Does anyone use fireworks that can tell me how to make the file small enough to post? I have the pixel size smaller then what is required and still can't get it please help me...

we received an open brain about 2 months ago when we purchased another reefers tank. I wanted to get rid of it as soon as it was placed in our tank but it attached itself to a chunk of lr, and after asking a few questions on a few forums decided that it would be allright in our tank. now after...

We have had our carpet for a few months and it has stayed in place the whole time now today he just went on the run and I placed him back where he started and when I got home from work he was under the cave he used to be on top of. Why would he decide to head for the dark after being happy with...

I'm wondering because I have two madarins that have been happy and well fed until a recent decline in the pod population after adding a few firefish. I am adding live brineshrimp. I used to see thousands of pods on our glass after stirring the substrate or cleaning the tank and lately none so...

New day new question I have a 120g tank that has been set up for over a year, in january I started builing a reef out of it that was for mushrooms and ricordia mainly so I have only been running 260w of pc current inhabitants are red mushrooms, hairy mushrooms, orange ricodia plus 7 others that...

My wife has said lately that our 120 looks empty, she's looking to add more fish to the tank. Around 4 months ago our aggressive tank crashed killing everything so we decided to go reef now we have a tank with lots of assorted mushrooms, ricordia and a large hadoni carpet and over time other...

I wan't to change my name and profile becuse my wife found this site and joined it under her name and she has not added anything scince all dead in dec. and I'm sure that most of you probably think that I am some hot chick but thats just not me. So can I please change these things without it...

I have a question about the calcium depletion in my 120. I check my water parameters weekly or close to it and the calcium never looses more then 20ppm and alk may drop 1.1dkh. Now last weeks tests were salinity 35-p.h.8.2-nitrite0-amonia0-nitrate0-calcium440ppm-alk9.5-temp80 and if you care...

I was at a lfs the other day and saw they had 3 of these all atleast a 14 inch diameter if they were flat and hosting clownfish are these reefsafe, do they move much, will they eat slow movers? They also had rose anemones at $140 a pop I'll wait on the latter of these.

I just realized the other day that I no longer have a fish only system with lionfish and triggers. Now we have a reef tank and we were wondering if we can have a few sea-horses in our tank with the tangs and dragonette?

Well I have finally run out of ca-1 for our calcium test has anyone ever seen them at a lfs or is it something that needs to be ordered online?

When we bought our orange ricordia it came with a light brown colored really slimey but hard spot on the rock and the pods in the aquarium have been going crazy eating it for a few weeks now it is gone and the pod population has exploded. Anybody have any idea what this might have been?

I currently have a large crushed coral substrate I did not know any better a year ago. I am trying to decide whether to go with a deep sand bed or a bare bottom. I have been leaning towards a deep sand bed for lots of reasons including feeling safer about a tumbling rock. I am tired of trying...

Last week we bought a calico crab that is about 5 inches and a beautiful addition to our 29g tank. Well it has a sand bottom that is kept impecably clean by a orange spotted goby and the glass is alway clean other then coraline scraped weekly. Now the crab has a brown algae film on his back...

We have the green bubble algae in our tank and used to have a emerald crab that took care of this problem. He died before christmas and now the bubbles are making a come back. Now we have mushrooms in the tank and I was wondering if it was o.k. to get another emerald crab or is this a...

I have an oddity in my tank. I have tried to get pictures but he is to deep in the tank to focus on and the rock is lower in the tank so I can't pull it close to the front for a pic. I belive he is a clam. It looks like a piece of the rock it is on but it opens just a little it has what...

In the last few days we purchased a calico crab and I was wondering if anyone ever has kept one? We placed it in our 29g tank with no corals and very little live rock just in case he's a bulldozer. Theres little that can be found on the net as far as feeding and care go. It was just so neat...

We have a mushroom rock that has become overgrown and I understand how to cut them and place them on seperate smaller rocks. My question is can you cut a smaller one in half and glue it to the glass on the back of your tank? Will it be o.k. if I do it at the same level they are at now? And...