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When you buy drift wood or rock from the lfs, you should boil them before they go into your tank. If you are not able to boil them, you can also try soaking them in a bucket of hot water for several days, while changing the water a few times a day. You should also be careful when adding dw or...

Thanks! Yeah, I talked to my lfs and they told me the same thing. He said it is like a type of seaweed or kelp. Thank again.

A couple of these have been growing in my tank for a couple of months, but this one just recently grew really fast. At first I thought it looked cool and thought maybe it was a coral, but it has grown a lot since then. Anybody have an idea of what this thing is?

They are a type of anemone.

It looks like apitasia. They can be harmful, as they can sting fish. They typically aren't too bad, but from my experience, they can reproduce very fast. If you want to remove them, they have a product called Apitasia X or you can try peppermint shrimp.

No, it's all good. I appreciate the criticism and input. I am using a Jebo JB-13.

Thanks. I will probably set up a 10 for now, but want to get this 80 gallon going. I am moving soon, so I plan on setting it up then.

Yeah you're right. There is one feeder guppy in there. I had three in there for the first month as my tester fish, but two of them jumped out. The water level was pretty much to the top, so I decided to lower it about 1/2 an inch. I'm going to check some of the water levels soon. I'll let you...

I thought I was told they are pretty much full grown. Hmm... I'll check the website. Thanks again. I'm hoping to set up an 80 gallon pretty soon. I have a few old 10 gallons laying around. Maybe I'll have to set up one of them in the meantime.

Hmmm. They don't seem too short in space in my tank, but I'll definitely keep an eye out. They like to hide in the planted areas and come out into the open space during feeding. I am using a Tom Mini Internal Filter-Dive Clean.

Yup. Already got a black background. Going to install install it soon! Thanks. I'll post new pictures when the background is up.

Yeah, the tank has been running for about 2 months. I am thinking of putting the puffers into another tank. They are pretty messy and seem to disturb the other fish and shrimp (nips at them). I was also concerned with overstocking. The guy at the lfs suggested about 10 rasboras. He said that...

This tank has the following: ADA-Amazonia aqua soil 4 Cryptocoryne (potted plants) 2 small anubias 2 Pistia (floating plant: grows like crazy, but but only want about 2 in at a time). 6 Galaxy Rasbora 2 Pea Puffers About 5 ghost shrimp (going to change to cherry shrimp) 1 Clown preco 1 small...

What do you guys think? Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry for the sideways pictures. They were uploaded from my phone.

We are changing some of the fish. Going to add more chain loaches. More pics soon.

Thanks again for the comments! And no, the dw is not merged in any way. The two large pieces of dw are just leaned up against each other and the back of the glass. The rest of the dw was just placed to help create balance, unison, and give it a "branchy" feel. We wanted it to be more...

Mr. X is probably right about the coralline, but the dark red stuff on the rocks looks like red slime (a type of bacteria).

Also red slime.

Ok good to know. I had mandarins in there too, so the copepods weren't a waste.

The guy I bought them from told me they would eat the coral food and copepods. When they were open, I would just squirt the coral food near the mouth using a coral feeder. I also used to put copepods in the tank.

Really? I had it for about 8 months. I was feeding it coral food.

Nope. Didn't think about that, but based on appearance they were doing well until I saw the worms. I could be wrong, but that's just what I noticed them. By the way, I'm talking about feather starfish, not dusters.

Thanks for the info. But from my experience, I believe they have caused damage to some of my coral and inverts. I have seen them crawling around some polyps (soon after most of them died off). I also noticed my featherstars slowly started falling apart and then I noticed the bristle worm...

One of my tanks was pretty infested with them. They normally hide in or under the rocks. I was able to get a lot of them out by just lifting up one of the rocks, since they were all just sitting there. I sucked them up with a coral feeder. I also heard that you can use soda water on the...

It looks like a bristle worm. They can be bad. They can damage your coral, inverts, and even fish. I had some in my tank and they wrapped around the base of my featherstar and killed it off. They make traps that you can buy at your lfs.