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Hello, I joined AA in 2004, but as college progressed and I had less time to do hobby-related stuff I kind of fell out of touch. According to my page my last activity was in early 2005, so I think it's safe to say I'm now new to the hobby-- again! Since I was in college my family's vast...

Well, while we are waiting for something that might best replace our flasher wrasse (carpet surfer), I convinced my mother to let me get a goby for our 20g reef. Go to the store and there is exactly one goby for sale- a runty little yellow clown goby. So it has been in the tank for a couple of...

...he found the 1.5" gap I left in the eggcrate after putting it back on and made a bid for freedom...ending up on our tile floor. It couldn't have been more than two hours since I last saw him swimming around in there. R.I.P., flasher wrasse. :/

Question(s) 1) Should I remove the protective glass plate that lies just underneath the PC lights in my Coralife canopy? Does having that plate there negate the usefulness of an eggcrate top? What would happen if the bulbs were splashed with water? I notice that now that I've removed the...

By the description of the coloration it sounds like it will probably become an aquarium favorite if it can be imported. Sorry I could only find the first page of the report. You need Adobe Reader to see it. http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/ief15_2_08.pdf

Uhm, this is kind of unfortunate because I could have prevented it. :oops: Anyway, when I got my xenia frag a few days ago I put it on a rock that is semi-close to the intake for my Penguin filter. Well, I have discovered that the xenia enjoyed the idea of getting sucked up a filter so much...

Huttah. Didn't manage to get any pictures of him with his fins fully flared out, as when he does it it's very fast (hence the "flasher"). He's very active and eating. He enjoyed some Cyclop-Eeze this morning and some squid in the evening. My clownfish follows him around when it thinks...

Well, I finally have our official second fish (official fish do not include a certain pair of damsels purchased on a whimsy by my mother that were then returned to the store :roll:), a flasher wrasse. It's a handsome little male that is currently hunkering down in one corner and giving the evil...

My mother came to the conclusion that she only likes taking care of the smaller tanks while I'm at school. So, she told me to break down the newer 55g (we had an older one that had run in my room for about five years that we took down just before I went to college) leaving only the 20g hex, the...

I have tried to make these as small as possible without making them impossible to see. I am also going to try and use the attachment feature for the first time. 1) Some brown stuff that's been on the rock pictured since I first got it. Hasn't done anything that I can remember, but I haven't...

If you are at all interested in trouncing myths, please send a letter to Faith of www.bettatalk.com about the most recent inquiry she responded to. You can see the inquiry on the front page by scrolling down a bit, as well as her response. As far as I can tell it is completely uninformed and...

1) Your clownfish bites the hand that feeds her. 2) Your hand happens to brush against a sleeping pearl bubble coral's stinging tentacle(s). 3) You stick your hand in the filter to get out the filter pad for rinsing, then lift said hand out when you feel something squirming and find it newly...

I was talking to a girl who worked there the other day while my mother was looking at the SW fish to see if they had anything that would go in our 20g ("Can we get this one? *points at clown trigger*"). I found out that they hadn't gotten anything new this week so we were looking around at the...

Does anyone have this book? It looks very interesting to me, but also expensive ($80-$100). Lots of big pictures and info about all Polypterus species and color variants according to the blurb... But $80..? :P

Sort of a survey... How many pounds do people usually buy at once? From most places I have checked, the shipping amounts to some about $46-$50 for the smallest amount of LR (10 lbs) that one can purchase. Together with the cost of the rock, this averages out to about $8 a lb from most places...

I know there's been a great deal of chitchat on the freshwater forums lately about the "unexplained" deaths of bettas and some other labyrinths. I think there's been some finger-pointing at the farms supplying stock from Asia, as well as the crippled lines of native betta breeders. Anyway...

I'm getting ready to get another fish for my family's 20g, which currently houses a single (old) ocellaris clownfish and various invertebrates. I am compiling a list of fish that would work in this situation, and I would appreciate it if anyone could post some tips on the fish listed and if...

[center:423f3fca7c][/center:423f3fca7c] Always look on the bright side of life~ :)

#1. Some sort of parasite? :( These white worm-things were all over the skeleton of my torch coral before it died (according to my parents it slowly closed up over a few weeks), and while a few of the big ones got onto the pearl bubble coral they have since seemed to have gone away, leaving...

All right, these pics are really bad, but bear with me. These guys are itty bitty (though there was one at the store that was even smaller than them-- about the length of your pinky finger nail)-- I'd say they're about 1.25" standard length. I was a tad worried about the splash of red on #2's...

This isn't urgent by any means- I am simply doing more research for the tank I am setting up in the fall. I'm not sure about the pH in question yet (it's in another state..) or if lowering it is actually what I want to do, but I'm simply scrounging for methods to lower pH anyway. Naturally...

Some of you may remember my post about my mother spontaneously adding two blue damsels without telling me to our 20g SW tank. One died, but the other one has been healthy for the few days I have been home so today I spent half an hour catching the little booger and then I returned him to the...

Bound to happen, I imagine.. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/07/MNG1A6HEGO1.DTL

What follows is a rough approximation of a conversation I had with my mother about our 20g saltwater tank at home as we were going to dinner (this is my last night at college before summer break). "So if I can sell off that stuff [referring to another tank] I can probably get enough money to...

In a smaller tank (10g or less), what shrimps go best together? I've only had ghost shrimp, and only for the twenty minute drive home from the LFS that sells them for 15 cents a pop so that I could feed them to my fish. This time I would like to try creating an all-shrimp tank. =)