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thank you so much guys! its good to know shes not mantis~^__^ then i will put her back to the house~ hehehe

is it a pistol shrimp? or mantis? or something else? also, what kind of crabs are these? just some wild crabs? thank you guys~~

hi guys, i've been planning on getting a protein skimmer. Finally! my wallet has charged up enough to afford one now^^. I'm looking for one around 120~160. i have a 20 gal tank, with only 2 fish and some inverts and 12 corals ^^. I've looked through some posts already, AquaC seem to be really...

i have done a little experiment with those brownish thing, they seem not to grow much when the lights are off. i've already read a little about dinoflagellates, since they are photosynthesis, and the brownish thing arent growing too much at night, it could be the one... but if thats the source...

thanks a lot! but they have been in the tank for 2 months now and they had been very active and healthy till the boom of "cyano", and they started to die in the past week :cry: i suspect that cyano boom have something to do with the water that i tap off daily... i get the distilled water from...

the water parameters are very nice, NH3 and NO2 are both 0ppm, theres about 5~8ppm for NO3. SG is about 1.0285, ph is 8.2 the black spot on the fish didnt really grow like crazy, but i think they sort of disappeared. or not as visible as before now @__@ i also included a photo of those...

can anyone give any idea? any idea would be appreciated!!! ^^ thanks

Hi, Recently, my tank just started to have alge boom or diatom boom, i'm not sure what exactly they are, but they look sort like spiderweb, with brownish color. and i'm not sure if it was that reason or some other mysterious reason, my snails started to die, 4 has already fell victim..>_<...

ah~ ha! that is the missing link i guess i guess i totally forgot about the trace elements in the SW... (how could i...) i do agree now, water change is essential, like you all mentioned, remove some bad stuffs and more importantly replacing important elements back into the tank. Thank you all...

I've come to think about this question couple of times, and i dont seem to find a strong argument to have water changes when you have good circulation of water as well as good filtration from LR and LS. i think i'm missing something here, what makes water change so important if the stated...

thanks steve, i believe Turbinaria reniformis is the one. i looked at some pix on the net, pretty sure it is the one. I'm still waiting it to open up. it has arrived more than a week now. hope it will be like other corals, start to open up sometime soon ^^

let me check them out Thank you!! ^__^

Please help me ID them i wonder what that long thing is?@___@ help help~ tia cubic

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here are some pictures~~ ^_^