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Previously I was unaware that anything would eat bristleworms but today I was watching my tank and my coral banded shrimp grabbed something off his rock and scuttled down the bottom. When he stopped I saw that he had a bristleworm in his pinchers! I laughed because I thought he would never be...

Hm. Okay. I'll let her know. x.x vicious little buggers, aren't they? Thanks guys! ~sparkle

A 50 gallon tank with two blue damsels and a yellow tang... The damsels got along fine until the tang was added, but then one of the damsels decided it was going to rule the tank and enlisted the tang's aid in dominating the other damsel. The two constantly chase the one into hiding, nipping at...

We wiped everything down with a towel, first, and then blasted it with a hose. When she brought the tank into the actual lab I rinsed it out again, and then went over the entire thing with windex once or twice, and then rinsed it out until the only thing I could smell was the water i was rinsing...

Saltwaters are pretty expensive... x.x I realize that now. But if you're going to do something, might as well do it right the first time. Chances are it would cost more to screw up and try again. You're probably going to want some sort of protein skimmer, too, and make sure it has good water...

The stuff in the bottom is live sand, not live rock. Where did you buy the piece that you have in your tank at the moment? If it's live rock it would have come from your local fish store, and it would have been in a saltwater tank. It should have living things or 'hitchhikers' on it that will...

so we're going for porus. ^.^ okay, I'll look into that.

You're going to need a lot more live rock. I'm in the middle of being told that most people would reccomend a 1.5-2 ratio of live rock to water. So 1.5-2 pounds of live rock per gallon. A thirty gallon tank may be susceptible to rapid changes in ph, nitrate, nitrite, and other chemicals, but I'm...

I have pieces of dead coral and dead LR in the tank right now. Would it spread to that all right? They're 3-6lbs apiece, and I only have four of them, but I can get more of that easily enough if it will work. *excited now* That would be so much easier on us, to get base 'dry rock' instead of...

White, not green. It doesn't look like the filter did very much good at all. ~Sparkle

I wish we had the kind of money to -buy- 100lbs of live rock, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But we just don't have that kind of money right now, we're working slowly. Maybe by the end, we'll have that much *crosses fingers* I looked up the protein skimmer we have. It's a JB2003 protein skimmer with...

Will the PODS do all right in the argonite sand? I've heard of building a small pile of rocks or something like that (bits of coral, or the like) and putting bits of food in it would create a good place for some kind of small dragonet-edible food to breed... I can't remember which type, though...

I've heard that really small saltwater tanks are hard to keep simply because the chemicals in it can change -so- quickly because there isn't much water to change. However, i've seen people with five gallon saltwater tanks that are cute and thrive, soo.... I guess it depends on how diligent you...

^.^ Thank you so much. I will definately look into the sand thing, definately, as well as the lights. We went looking for a bit today and decided we liked the purple fiji live rock best, so we're going to save up to get a lot of that for the tank. ;.; we saw some -really- beautiful displays! I...

I'm new here and will be the first to say that I know pretty much not a lot about saltwater tanks except that I want one. I've actually started setting up a 55 gallon saltwater tank in our lab, at the university of Michigan. We don't have the best of funds, but we've gotten a lot of equipment...