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brittle stars, serpent stars and sea stars

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I dont think freshwater disease is an issue, its the fatty acids that are lacking in FW fish that give SW little if any nutrional value. You could convert mollies to SW to use as feeders and after a second generation was born in SW they would suffice as feeders.

Mine was skiddish for a month or so, and then for another year he would hide when anyone other than me walked into the room. Now he hangs out with no fear of anything. Give him time, once hes comfortable he wont hide anymore.

The Chocolate Chip will eat anything it parks over including soft corals. I've heard that the General will do the same, but mine doesnt touch corals.

General Starfish are easy to keep, so are Chocolate chip if you dont have any corals.

IME Blue linkia's are hard to keep. Sometimes it doesnt matter how much trouble you go to they wont make it.

I have several small short spined urchins that hitchiked in my LR. I noticed the other day that one was missing and later spotted spines laying all around my long tentacled anemone. Will an anemone eat an urchin? If so will he be ok?

If your tank is farily new then chances are you have diatoms which are neither good nor bad, just a part of the aging process. They will dissapate on their own in time. IME plastic plants will require maintenance to make look real.

No doubt, Cyano. Increased flow, reduced feeding, and syphon it off every chance you get. If you have it floating on the surface then you need a power head situated so that it breaks the water surface.

In my sump I have a sponge in the stage just before the return, the sponge takes care of my bubbles. This might fix both of your problems.

Re: puffer feeding I would be very careful about overfeeding the puffer, they will eat themselves to death and overfeeding could cause some serious water quality issues. My porcy is about 10 inches and never bothers other fish, but produces a great deal of waste.

About the only things I could have with my trigger and puffer was a starfish and urchins. The trigger took out the hermits and the puffer loves escargot. I think its luck of the draw with puffers and triggers as to what the will and will not eat.

8O Im jealous :evil:

Wow, what is that?

I wouldnt advise putting a Naso in a 55, they get pretty large

Im not so sure that they release anything after dying. I had a small lion die a few months ago in a 20 gal and was probably dead for about 12 hours before I found him. I had no issues with the other fish that were in the tank.

Dont know where you are in Texas, but I have an empty 55 gal if it will help. I'm in the Waco area.

yes, after the course of events is complete it becomes nitrate. IMO 15ppm is nothing to panic about, just make sure it doesnt keep going up. If you have CC then you might need to do an aggressive gravel vac with the next water change. After 3 years of trying to lower my nitrates, i found...

Is he flippy his tail at another critter? He might be trying to establish territory with someone else. My Tang flips his tail at crabs and starfish. It sort of looks like hes swimming without moving.

I have several and my fish leave them alone. Apparently they can strip the coraline off of your LR, but I dont have that problem.