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Thanks Fluff. Is it worth putting him in a fuge with snails and crabs or would it attack them as well?

Saw this fuzzy brown crab hanging out on my leather coral last night. I've had the coral for about two weeks and I've noticed a lot of white areas on the coral. Was thinking maybe the lighting was too intense and was going to move it lower in the tank. Is this crab harmful and is there a...

Thanks for the input. I figured it was some kind of algae. Since I added my new lights I've had some serious algae blooms that I'm trying to control. Thanks everyone.

It's definitely more three dimensional than a leaf. It's more cylindrical so the width you see at the base is more or less it's diameter. It looks to have the consistency of jelly but I haven't squeezed or touched it for fear of spreading it if it's bad. It's really not porous like the...

Hmmm.... Apparently stumped some people with this one. Anyone have any suggested websites I can check out to try to ID this myself? This thing has doubled in size since posting this which leads me to believe it may not be beneficial. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

Just upgraded lights about one month ago and have noticed a lot of green growth in the tank. I've since cut back on the duration of the lights but was wondering what type of plant/algae this might be. Is it something I should remove? It seems to be growing at a fairly rapid rate. Sal =...

My 29g is actually already set up as a reef tank. I have a few corals in there already and the coral beauty doesn't bother them. The 29g already has vho lighting on it. I need to upgrade the lighting on the 55g. All it has now is cheap pc's that came with it. Debating on vho or mh...

Thanks guys, that's what I thought. I'm going to set up the 29g as a fuge for the 55g once I get everthing transferred over. That's the next project (after new lighting), plumbing the two together. And yes I am excited, I bought the tank towards the end of last year, built a DYI stand and...

I have a 29 long that I've had up and running for 2 years and now have a 55g that has been cycling for over a month w/ 100 lbs lr and a ssb. All params look good w/ nitrates finally dropping below 20. I have cheap fluorescents that came with the 55g running and looking to purchase new lights...

Thanks for the advice. I did not have any saltwater on hand and it was after LFS hours so I decided to leave it since the parameters after the even were the same to those before. I was banking on the rbta being healthy and able to pull through it. Thankfully that was the case. It was back to...

I did a 5 gallon water change yesterday with sw from my lfs that had a lower salinity level than normal, actually much lower. Unfortunately I did not have any salt on hand to add to it and I didn't think it would lower my overall tank salinity much so I did the change. It did, from 1.023 to...

I currently have a 29 gal reef tank that's been up and running for over a year now. I just bought a 55 gal tank that I want to upgrade to. I am considering using my 29 gal as a refugium now. Most of what I see on fuge systems have a sump as well. Do I need to have a sump accompanying the...

I have an "established" tank (1+ years) with a coral beauty, yellow tail damsel and maroon clown. The damsel was my first addition with the cb being the last around 8 months ago. They damsel and cb have always been active until recently. A couple of days ago I noticed the damsel would hide in...