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Hi Guys I have a major problem I have green hair algea everywhere. I have tried new lights for less time, lower temp, less feeding and no luck. I even tried removing the glass tops and using egg crate the alge is so bad that I am using a turkey baster 2 to 3 times a week and cleaning the filter...

I just wanted to thank everybody for the suggestions on my substrate change. I went from cc to sand today it was quite a job but I am sure glad I did it. I found two pistols and now they have a happy home at the lfs I found pieces of my peppermint where they were hiding so I figured they were...

Hi everybody, I have not posted in a while computer was commiting suicide, all fixed now so here goes. I have cc for substrate and I hate the way it looks now so I have decided to go with live sand. My question is how do I remove all the substrate without causing a spike in ammonia and stressing...

Hi all I seem to be having a problem with green hair like algea. Any suggestions on what I can do to get rid of it? It is starting to make my tank look bad. Thanks Sue

Hey everybody I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing I have been dealing with. Here goes I have 3 clowns ocelerious sorry about the spelling the smallest one is completely nuts whenever we put our hands in the tank to move rocks or retrieve nori clips or any other reason...

OK Here goes we are having issues with something eating all our inverts. We have already caught 3 very large what we were told are fireworms all about 5 inchs or longer and about as big around as a pencil...yuck. We did a water chang and in the bucket with the old water we found hundreds of...

Hey all here are the pics of what we think are the worms. Could anybody tell us for sure what they are... They are flat and have spikes down both sides of their bodies... Thanks Sue

Hey everyone again I have come to the conclusion that since no one thinks the bristleworms are the culprits in my missing shrimp and snails then I guess its safe to say I have a mantis problem. I tried the glass with the piece of shrimp in it and all I got was a few snails in the glass and no...

Hey everybody I was just wondering if anyone has ever heard of bristleworms killing inverts I was searching for a mantis when I found 3 worms. 2 of them are at least 6 to 8 inches long and the third is short but very big around. The two long ones are almost as big around as my little finger and...

Will a pistol shrimp eat the hermits and snails in our tank or does just the mantis shrimp? We have seen what we thought was a pistol but now our snails and stuff are coming up missing and we do hear popping..maybe clicking sounds from our tank. There are holes under our live rock in the gravel...

Hey everybody I have been offline for a while and have a question about coraline. We have finally started to get coraline in the tank after only about a year and a half wait. My concern is we are going to do a water change over the weekend and we are wondering if removing the water below the...

Hi guys! Just wondering if I need a filter on my sw tank. We have 100 lbs of live rock in there and the filter is ugly! LOL We just bought orbit 4x65 watt lights and they fit on the tank just not with enough room to lift the top off and feed. Without the filter we could move the light back and...

Hi everyone again I have the culprit of the great wire eating caper it is in fact the urchins that are waiting till no one is watching and then trying to fry all the other fish... sadistic little S.O.B.s They have already started in on the new protien skimmer and powerhead cords I wanted to let...

Hi all again guys...It's been a while since I posted but all was going really well till last Saturday when my hubby came home from working 3rd shift and found the power strip to our tank frying... When he looked closer he found out that the power head cord of the protein skimmer was chewed...

Hey all any ideas on how a spider crab can keep having babies when she is the only one in the tank? We have seen her do this twice and its freaky to watch. All the babies are alive and swimming until the other fish see them then they are lunch. Any help would be great thanks. Sue

Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can grow coraline? we bought calcium supplement part A and B and a calcium test kit after testing the water we came up with 420 to 440 mg without adding anything ever our levels are where they are supposed to be and we never did anything to it but still...

Oh man guys today is a sad day for me. My 7 yr old just came and told me our Dorie is dead.(blue tang) She was fine yesterday no problems eating like the little piggie she is and swimming around. One of my pincushion urchin had her in its evil spines! Do you think its possible that it killed...

I know what a weird question but...I posted before that my Blue tang had ick. When she was in the main I tried treating with garlic and she had more spots when I gave garlic.I simply thought that the ick was getting worse. With the help of Quarryshark I got a qt and treated her,she seemed fine...

I was wondering since my blue has Ick (I think) I am going to take all my fish out and treat with copper. I am unsure if this will hurt the lm blenny. Please advice as I am setting up a qt either later tonight or tommorow morning. Thanks all!! Sue

Ok all here goes again...We turned off the bacpack skimmer for 48 to let the red slimer remover medicine work. We turned it back on last night and have alot of bubbles in the tank and also the collection cup has been emptied 3 times today alone..only no yucky stuff like before just basically...

I was wondering at what temp does everybody keep their tanks at? Mine is at about 78 degrees is that too cold or is that ok? I have a fowlr tank. Thanks! Sue

Hello I need some help quick! My blue has some spots on her that I am assuming is starting of ICK! Ive been feeding with garlic and they seem to go away.This morning I turned on the light to check on them all and she has a bunch and I also didnt see her eat. What can I do I have inverts in the...

We have one BTA nad my husband really likes the anemones and I want to get him another for Fathers Day but I was wondering if there would be a fighting problem? If so what other one (not expensive) would be good to get? Also how many snails for a 55 gal fowlr tank. We are having some red slime...

Hi all, My cleaner shrimp has finally left my BTA alone (I think its clean enough now) LOL and I was wondering how I feed it. Also I hear you guys talking about a blender mush how do you do that too? I only want whats best for my fish friends. Any suggestions would be great! TIA!! Sue

We have a skunk cleaner shrimp that we have had for about 6 months and we just got a bubble tip anemone and the 2 are never apart. The cleaner stays right on him basically and I am concerned to the fact if the shrimp is hurting the anemone or is this ok? TIA!! Sue :0)