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I think you can use sea salt too. Most instruction packs that I've seen specifically say don't use regular table salt.

Use aquarium salt. Regular table salt has iodine in it. To much kills inverts.

Buy an algae disc from Florida Aqua Farms. There are numerous how-to's about growing it on the internet. When I decide to culture rotifers I do it in two 10 gallon tanks half full and culture about 14 gallons of phytoplankton a long with it. I stock up about 10 gallons of phyto before I start my...

You're probably thinking of green brittle starfish, which are carnivores and will actively hunt for fish. The average run of the mill brittle starfish are perfectly "fish safe".

I used a .53 micron sleeve to catch them all. Really it just catches all the adults. The babies pass through, but since they breed so fast at 80F I don't worry about it. I kept the salinity at about 1.020 that way when I add tank water I don't have to worry about the rotifers going into salinity...

I used a 10 gallon tank to raise fry and breed rotifers. Over about a month I bred rotifers in the 10 gallon tank. Each week adding more water and phyto, keeping the temp at 80f. Once I reached hatching day I cleaned out the tank leaving about a gallon of rotifer water and adding about 3 gallon...

I've had 2 different pairs of clarkii clown fish host my condy anemone. Both with in a few hours of adding them to my tank. My current set of clarckii's will go sit in my rose btas from time to time, but their home is the condy.

There is something about your tank it doesn't like. It'll keep moving till it finds the right conditions for it. It could be your flow, water parameters, lights, etc. A little back ground about your tank could help give ideas about what may be wrong.

The fish would have to be bigger than the angler, and grow faster than the angler. They can eat fish as big as themselves.

The hermit crabs will be fine. The male clown will protect the eggs. If any hermit crab gets to close he will move it. I've watched mine move snails that have gotten to close to the eggs as well as biting me if my hand gets to close for their comfort.

They are known to clip polyps off use them a camo. Mine never did, it cut pieces of a large sponge I have and used that.

They'll lay eggs in conditions that are unsuitable for them to continue living. It's basicly their defense to ensure their survival. If they are in ideal conditions, they give birth to live babies. If not, they lay eggs, and when the water returns to appropriate conditions the eggs will hatch...

I have a CBS, Anemone Crab, Peppermint Shrimps, Cleaner Shrimp, Emerald Crabs, and a decorator crab in a 150g 5ft tank. None of them mess with each other. During the day my CBS hangs out upside down under a rock. At night he roams the entire tank. Doesn't mess with my fish or go after anything...

How to raise and train your peppermint shrimp (By April Kirkendoll): "Update for second edition: researchers have pretty much established that all of the shrimp in the genus Lysmata are hermaphrodites. So anyways, peppermint shrimp mate soon after the "female" molts. While she is still soft and...

I wish mine would crash. I pulled out several pieces of live rock yesterday and cleaned a bunch of Xenia's off. That picture was taken afterwards.

It's never a sure thing a clown will host any anemone. I have two RBT in my tank and the most my Clarkiis will do is swim by them. Here's my Mated Clarkii pair spawning beside my Condy anemone.

I made some about a year ago. I put the pieces in the back part of my toilet for 2 months, and I've had no issues with it. I found this much easier than doing water changes every day.

Pom Pom Xenia's are easy. As are Kenya trees... Neither of which I will put in a new tank again. I'm tired of having to trim them almost every week. The Xenia's have about 4 inch stalks. The Kenya trees drop new branches every week and the Xenia's just grow like weeds.

I wouldn't worry about it either. My clown hosted my clam until I moved the clam to the other side of the tank. Now he host my duncan coral and at first they would close up. Now they aren't bothered by him. They don't seem to mind him "sucking" on the tentacles anymore either.

Brine Shrimp need to be fed about 12 hours after hatching. This is when they molt into their second larval stage and start feeding. At this point they'll start starving if they aren't fed. I use a 10 gallon tank with some acrylic, pvc pipe, and airline tubing to create an oval tank and make a...

Off the top of my head, no. I'm on tdy so it'll be a few weeks before I go back to the states and I'm able to ask him.

This clam is in a 500 gallon tank at my lfs. A small dog or large cat could easily fit in it. The tang in the back is probably around 10"

Usually bits will have a picture of the design they cut

You can run the lights later as well. Or you could run then a few hours in the morning and the a few hours in the even and have them off in the middle. I would get a submersible thermometer, the ones that sick to the glass can be very inaccurate

Since your tank is only 2 months old, most of that will go away with time. I would try for around 8 hours. But you'll have to find a time that works for your tank considering your environment. In the winter I could run the lights 24/7 if it wouldn't kill my tank since the average out side temp...