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I was wondering if it was some kind of an anemone, but I wasn't sure if it was good or bad. After searching the net a bit i'd have to say this is correct by looking at pictures of aptasia. I have a chocolate chip star in the tank, will he deal with it in due course, or am I on my way to a tank...

I was just giving my tank the once over and discovered some new growth on it. The tank has been established for about 3 months now and the rock was cured when it was put in the tank. Water params are all great, and I have yet to loose a fish (knock on wood). I'm not running a fancy light its...

I'm going to be taking a week vacation for the first time since I've setup my SW tank. I'm unsure about having someone come and feed them for me while I'm gone. I've had no problems with the tank or critters thus far and think they will be fine for a week without someone peeking in the glass at...

Over the past week or two my hermit crabs have been busy, at least I hope. They've been moving the extra shells that I have laying in the san to different corners of the tank. Occasionally they'll come out and seach the sand for food, but then get right back to their corner. When I came home...

I'm picking up a hospital tank this weekend. How large/small should I bee looking at getting?

I too have the prizm skimmer, I too had noting but problem with it, until the handyman in me decided to make some modifications to it. I took the air hose that goes from the "plug" on the collection cup and put a inline air valve on it and left it hanging off the side of the tank. Then I took a...

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I just noticed that one of my clowns has a large white "pimple" on his lower jaw. Sorry about the picture quality but he doesn't like to hold still for the camera. Any ideas?

I'm thinking of adding a small yellow tang into my mix. I have a 40G tank with 2 percula clowns and 4 damsels. If I had to lose a couple of the Damsels to make room for the tang I would. Any thoughts?

Anyone have any experience with these snails, I put 8 into my 40g tank tonight and I can already notice a distance where they've been working the glass. Please don't burst my bubble I think I like them, but I hope they're going to do more good than bad!

I've got a 40g tank that has been running about 1 month now. I was expecting to start getting some algee and it's comming fast and furious now. It's a brown color and it's forming on all of the glass. I've put in 6 hermit craps to clean up the scrap food that's in the tank and put in 6 small...

I'm looking to add a small clean up crew to my 40 gal SW tank. Right now I've got 40lbs of LR, 2 Perc Clowns, a 4 assorted Damsels. I was thinking of a couple of emerald crabs but I'm not sure what effect they will have on my existing fish and future, long ways down the road, coral? How large...

This is somehting that I think might work. Someone I know has a new born at home and has to work during the day. The wife gets to stay home and take care of the little guy. He set this up so that he could be at work and log into his home computer and catch some of the action. Not sure how you...

You should let the tank cycle for a while (week or two) before you put in all of the fish that your going to. Nothing like waking up to 12 gallons of dead fish.

I too was told that the PRIZM was the best skimmer for me to buy from the LFS. However I haven't had as many problems with it as everyone else has. It does run a little loud for the first little while, but if you connect the air hose up to the air hose port on the underside of the collection cup...

The pictures you are trying to post are probably to large in size, I think the need to be less than 100kb, and smallet than 800x600 pixels. JPG's are probably the best format to post in.

I recently cycled my take using the shrimp method. I had 40lbs of live rock and the tank was not cycling with that becasue the rock was cured. I used the shrimp after about 2 weeks of having the LR in the tank and my levels all spiked and returned to 0 after about 5 days. My tank is now home to...

Just to add to the shop report, earlier this week, Big Al's got a fantastic shippment of SW fish. They've got a great assortment, some is overpriced and cheeper at Wai's, but Clowns, dansels and tangs look great and are standard prices.

Well here they are, the first critters for the tank, I hope all goes well because their so cute!

Well if you want my 02 then I'd say go for it. Of course I wasn't looking at starting a 175g, i only went 40. If I had the money, sure I'd of gome larger. I'm sitting at about $1500 with a 40g tank and stand, canister filter, 40lbs of LR, skimmer and 2 powerheads and a cheap light. It's not...

Has any keept a toadstool coral or know how difficult they are to keep. My LFS has one and it's incredible, but I'm not sure what it's specific needs are. I'd like to get a couple perc clowns to host it if it wouldn't cause me any grief. Thanks

I just finished my cycle with shrimp. I put the shrimp in Friday night and tuesday it's good to go. I don't think it should matter if you peel it or not, mine (2) were not and the shrimp disintegrated into nothing. So all in all my cycle took 4 days with 2 shrimp in a 40g tank. Once your ammonia...

I tested my levels tonight and they are as follows Ammonia - 0ppm Nitrite - 0ppm Nitrate - 10ppm Do the Nitrates have to also be 0 before I can start to stock the tank? The shrimp worked very well for cycling, thanks for the advice! :mrgreen: I'm very excited to get some moving friends into...

That looks different than mine, my collection cup is atleast twice that size...This is what mine looks like

I'm not sure what to say I like and don't like about mine. It's only been running for about 2 weeks now and I had some problems to start with, mostly because I'd never used one before. I like the fact that it's a HOB and I don't have to worry about a sump. When it comes down to it all protein...