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I recently picked up this nice purple sea fan and the polyps were extended this morning so I snapped off a quick pic.

Arcadia Pendant Coating Flaking Off I have an old Arcadia 2x250w Halide pendant that has considerable flaking on the underside and was wondering if anyone could suggest what sort of paint would be suitable to use on it? I've seen some high temp paints around but was unsure if they would be safe...

The league is now full so registrations are closed. It's that time of year again.. finally :D If you have any questions feel free to ask.

I have a glass thermometer that keeps getting covered with coralline algae to the point where I can't read it anymore.. anyone else experience this? I don't mind scraping it off every week but it's kinda annoying.. even though I feel silly complaining about something like this.

Nothing quite gets the heart racing like the sound of a snail crashing into a tank wall after shooting off of a powerhead :!: 8O Little kamikaze buggers, lol.

I've had a tank bred ocellaris and rose bulb anemone for a long time now, and the clown has never even given the anemone a second look. Fair enough, right? I didn't expect there to be any interaction since the clown is tank bred and false percs aren't even known to host rba's anyway. Well, as I...

It's pretty obvious trivia is very popular among a lot of members here. :) I have a Trivia Bot running in an IRC channel if anyone wants to drop in for a quickfire round. I made it on the same network as the chatroom for this forum so if you're an mIRC user just join #AA-Trivia-Lounge on...

Okay, when it comes to new tanks the overwhelming recommendation is that fish are what you should begin with and then after some months you can start looking at corals. Now is it just me or are there a lot more people having trouble keeping fish alive than corals? Aren't most softies extremely...

www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate.php My pirate name is: Red Jack Bonney Passion is a big part of your life, which makes sense for a pirate. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

The worst part is I seem to be accelerating :lol: Anyone know where I can get me one of those.. whaddaya call em again.. oh yeah.. A LIFE?

All this bad luck goin round guess it was bound to be my turn sooner or later... It's 4 something in the a.m and I just gotten woken up to the lovely sound of my Prizm skimmer blowin up :(

Ok, I'm assuming my toadstool is in it's shedding stage since it hasn't extended any polyps for a couple days and is covered with little white blotchy areas. There's also lots of mucus everywhere. My question is for those that have experienced this, did it cause a significant buildup of surface...

I've been researching Trumpet coral and although most sources agree it can thrive in either sandy or rocky locations, there seems to be conflicting views on the level of waterflow. I've seen everything from low right up to high flow suggested. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Kinda curious to see how other people use these forums. I'm totally compulsive about reading every single new post :oops: EDIT: Just realised that last option is redundant :lol:

I know mushrooms typically like waterflow to be on the low side, but can they still thrive if it's fairly brisk? I noticed a hitchhiker shroom on some rock that's in a high flow area and was wondering if I should bother doing something about it.. The rock can't be moved so I'd have to cut the...

OK one of my button polyps has suddenly starting sending out some kind of tentacle from its mouth. The tentacle has gotten to about 2 inches long in the space of minutes. I don't even know if it's a tentacle or what but it looks like a mini nylon stocking. It's now over 3 inches in the time it...

My LFS absolutely refuses to sell me any fish, LOL :lol: They said they don't sell marine fish to anyone whose tank is less than 3 months matured. How weird is that?! I asked them what I could get, and they said some soft corals.. so I pointed at a rock of nice shrooms and they say no no the...

Hiya.. I have my first toadstool acclimating right now and was just wondering if anyone had any tips or comments about placement, flow etc.. or any other general remarks :)

I bought some rather nice looking green star polyps today. The kind that looks like a purple coralline encrusted rock when all the polyps are closed. Anyway, I had been acclimating for about an hour when I got a call and had to rush out. My friend who was here said he'd keep an eye on things so...

After a hermit molts do you guys take out the molt or leave it in there?

Just how deadly is rust in an aquarium? I've seen some nice stainless steel heaters recently but am concerned about rust issues over time. Would the first signs of rust wipe out the entire tank or would you be ok if you just removed the heater as soon as it occured?

Can you tell I've been out of the hobby for 8 years... I have a new 46 gal cycling and just saw my first feather duster worm pop out of a rock, then proceeded to run out of the room screaming and went and told the whole neighbourhood!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: A digicam is next on the list!

I have a new 46 gal cycling at the moment. It had 30 lbs of uncured LR in there for a couple weeks and once the ammonia levels diminished I ordered another 45 lbs of cured LR. The rock came in this morning and I added it right away. It was a nice deep purple fiji rock and looked great. However...

OK, this is really freaky... www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=311 I practically lived on a caribbean beach for 6 years and saw fish jumping around all the time.. nothing like this would have ever occured to me! :? :? :?