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now the mandarin and one of the nemos are dead. everyone else ius okay (minus microfauna fa shooo) but the question is what do i do now? and the female of the pair of nemos died, should i get a new nemo? when? THANKS IN ADVANCE! RIP mandarin and nemo both were about 2 years old and beautiful and...

no losses. pics coming someday. broke up with my wifey...life goes on. not much else is new over here... small male percula got sucked up into diatom filter but i recovered him quickly and hes healing his dorsal fin. clams look great. everyone is good.... :D:D:D adam

ill be moving my tank in the next two weeks. is there anything in particular i should do other than plan? reduce feedings? i have a bunch of specimens in there: two osceralis clowns one blue mandarin three pajama cardinals many zoos acanthastrea sp. galaxea sp. many acropora spp. many montipora...

well my girlfriend finally emailed me the pics she took earlier in april of my tank. heres the pic i have been promising for months... i know its not even that good a pic (no close up of clams, or new clam at all) but more to come someday. enjoy

i just got home from class (gone for 5 hours) and my galaxea was down frm its perch face-first on top of a 1/8" section of my brain coral. the brain is definately damaged. i wish i had a camera to show pics. its flesh is bruised where it was being stung by the galaxea for hours. mucus-like...

my abalone died today and i have been so depressed. steve told me not to get one, but i did not listen and now it is dead :"( i got one that was "tropical" though! and i seemed so happy. then it ended up on its back when it tried to turn the corner on the glass and it got picked on and it died a...

i just go one and it seems to be doing okay. do they like direct flow? it looks like its happy, but its "feathers" are not splayed out as i usually see them, they are blowing around in the direct flow. is this ok? TIA!

i got my first Tridacna clam last week. i believe it is a T. crocea (LFS didnt know and ive been trying to id since) but it may very well be a T. squamosa. either way, the pigment of the zooxanthellae seems quite brownish, so it is a deeper water clam i believe. is this true? i like that because...

i got Isochrysis and Tetraselmis sp. from the marine lab and began my culture AGAIN. last few times it wiped itself out i prefume due to lack of nutrients in the water coulumn. this time i added some liquid fertilizer and the cutlure is exploding with growth! its only been 48 hrs since i started...

I just got home tonight and went to inspect my 25 gallon reef. I got a Flame Angle just last Tuesday and it seems to be doing great, not shy, eating everything I've tried and generally happy looking. I was gone from Thursday until tonight and my brother feed it Marine Flakes. Tonight I noticed a...

i want to setup a 5.5g nano buying as little as possible. i have an extra 100w ebo jager and want to know if it is okay to use such a powerful heater in such a small tank. thanks!!!

is it possible to keep an Acropora sp. coral under PC at the very top of the tank? i got a pink Acro frag and it is at the top opf my 2x55w PC reef. it is all opened and seems like it is happy but i want to know if this will last. will it slowly die-off or just continue to grow but stunted...

i went to the beach at trinidad CA and found some beautiful phyla rodophyta macroalgae that i could not resist taking a frag of :) so it is in the fuge now after a quck FW dip and a long temp acclimation period. the ocean here is ~52°F right now and my system's temp is ~78°F. does anyone have...

RIP my purple and orange yuma :'( it was sploogeing and dying since last night and this morning i finally pulled it out with the old baster...i was literally to tears! all well. my params are all good: salinity ~1.023 pH 8.2-8.3 nitrites and ammonia: undetectable nitrates: very VERY little...

i have one mandarin fish (Synchiropus splendidus) in my 29g miniature reef and it seems to be flourishing. i have a 10g refugium with chaeto and a cpr aquafuge with chaeto that supply many pods to the display for the mandarin. she seems plump enough but im always nervous about her. not so much...

anyone have any experience with indo-pacific abalone in a reef tank? is 29 gallons too small for these guys? i have several macroalgae in the display tank too, will i need to relocate them? i can feed it chaetomorpha regularly from the nutrient export fuge. just trying to do some research on a...

hi. my Xenia elogata is getting picked on badly by a Lysmata amboinensis. the cleaner shrimp is picking the tentacles off of the Xenia's polyps and eating them as wells as ripping them apart during feeding time to get any food the poor thing has captured for itself. i know that its a rough world...

my PITA housemate will not compromise on the placement of the television - he says it simply MUST get moved to right across from my reef, which i put there because it was a quiet, dark area. people watch tv at night a LOT, when the tank is "sleeping" and i am almost sure it will annoy the...

anyone in sf have any mini brittles for trade? how about some other refugium life ie: mysids, other shrimp, pods. i have some Stomatella varia snails and copepods but need more fuge life. mini brittle stars would be best! thanks!

anyone interested in trading frags or macro? we have two setups - 29g in arcata and 10g in san francisco. trades in sf will have to wait, but i am here in arcata and have stuff if anyone is in the area lemme know :) what i have to trade: -various zoanthus - mainly different green ones (LOVE...