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Thanks, I didnt know that before. My other halimeda turns white while the lights are off but regains color after a hour under the light. Is this not normal then? Am I stressing the plant out with too much light/flow or not enough?

I got some free macro earlier today, im just not sure which plant this is... it looks like my halimeda algae in my fuge section but its alot bigger and less color (probably because it hasnt been under a light for 8 hours). Here is a pic of the new algae being quarantined untill I can figure...

In that case, I will add him to the refuge because the cuc there consists of a lonely nass snail. Thanks much!

These buggars were hitchhiking on some macro algae I bought. Along with a baby brittle seastar and a serpent seastar. I heard these guys can be good because they eat detrius and end up being food for other fishies. If I believed everything I read on the internet I wouldn't be here lol. So...

Million dollar idea! Thanks, I don't know why I never think to post on there. Took your advice and posted a ad asking for trades or a money offer. If no-one is interested in the next week, I guess I will just buy a 20gal just for him (and maybe the damsel). I feel too bad leaving him in my...

Ah I wish I would have paid better attention when I got him. Couldn't tell until he started swimming around the tank. could've taken him back for a price reduction. Now i'm not sure if it was another fish/invert or if he came that way :/

This is the pearly jawfish in question.. I never had one before but always wanted one. The LFS' never carried them, so I never knew what they actually looked like besides photos on the internet. I finally broke down and ordered one. Question is: Does his tail naturally look like that? Is he...

Thanks! I can never tell the clowns apart unless they are black or maroon :D 5$ on craigs list, not bad. Thinking of using that site first before I go to the LFS for livestock.

Additional photos, the littler one is hard to photo :fish2:

These were both sold to me as percula clowns. I know one has to be different from the other? I only paid 5$ a peice for them so I dont feel like I got ripped off, but I would just like to know for my records and to see if a certain one has different needs than the other.

After doing some more digging up on the current tank inhabbitants... I read that my dottyback may be killing them or any new addition to my tank(confirmed after watching him ram 3 different fish within the 15min of me watching him ). When I first got him about 3 months ago, he was a good tank...

I was on a mission to remove the neon dottyback back from my tank. I am moving him to the larger 125gal tank where he will permanently reside. I tried the 2 liter method for 2 days. No success.. I recently asked my lfs for a better way to catch this smart/curious little guy. The lfs owner...

I'm just simply saying he had been eating like a champ for about two months now, very active most of the day eating. When he isn't out eating, he is just chilling in the pineapple under the sea :-) for the record, I didn't claim anything(as I don't have many of these fish, just one, so this...

I am running a protein skimmer in the sump. Also i'm not sure which other inerts would be doing them in? I'm finding the bodies uneaten, the sally Lightfoot and the cleaner shrimp were my biggest inverts besides the bta. They were just dead one morning, the night before when I went to bed...

The Mandarin was my first fish to add to my newly cycled tank. He eats a frozen blend from my lfs, he will only eat the nano blend (which is just heavily blended into a puree) he has been doing better then my other tank mates and is growing fast. I just recently added a 12oz bottle of...

Im using a coralife ballast with a 10,000k 28 watt and a actinic 28 watt. Both are controlled by the same switch, so I can't choose between which bulb I want to use. I have a 60 gal tank with one coral so far. I am also running a high powered mercury vapor lamp along with a flourescent uvb bulb...

Green Mandarin

I have been cleaning the mechanical filter in the canister once a week, I have cleaned the 2 bio filter compartments once a month to keep the colony intact. I also replace the carbon once a month as well. As for the test kits.. I bought them 3 weeks ago, i assume they are still good...

well the only reason im switching so fast is because my livestock is slowly dying! ah, i just woke up to my fire shrimp being eating by a pom pom crab. I have lost 2 fish, 1 sally crab, 2 snails and now the shrimp. Thats big $$$ i have flushed in the past week. Im not sure what is doing these...

Thanks for all the input :) BTW I meant either a seahorse tank or a nem tank in which i cnould split them, ect. I ran into a snag though... Even though the 8-10lbs i designated to the sump is readining low levels of amonia, i bought it from a lfs, but i am unsure as to cycle the rock completly...

so everything has been running good for a hour now, no leaks on the overflow and the pump is nice and powerful :D After I drain the water on the mock set up and remove the live rock Ill move everything intoplace and make any final pvc welds for a custom fit. Just not sure If i Should leave any...

yeah I am, I ran a mock set up with the sump connected to 10 gal to test everything out and take this chance to throw the live rock in to start the cycling for the initial die off

I am running a Marineland 360 cannister filter for my 60 gal tank. I have 2-2.5 inch fine live sand substrate with about 32 lbs of live rock currently in the tank. I Just built a huge side cabinet to hold: 2x 20gal tall, 10 gal spare (not sure how to use this yet), and a 30 gallon additional...

Just started a saltwater tank recently and decided I needed to join a community of experts to help with all those unanswered questions. So thanks for having me! Read my profile to see a description of my tank and let me know if you have any pointers to a noob :-)