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Awsome display - love it. BEAUTIFUL

Well - He came out, not the way I expected.......his base is still where he settled down under a rock but he now stretches WAY out from under the rock ! He is 3 times as big as he was in the store when I bought him!!!!!! He is freaking HUGE like 4 to 5 inches in diameter! and stretches about...

I understand what your saying - its been two days and he has yet set out to get any light - he is deep under a rock where if he wanted to reach out for any direct light he would not be able to reach any - could it be possible he is angry or uncomfortable in this new set and take a while to...

I have a new BTA and he moved down under the rock. I know they will pick where the want to be, but I insist on moving him! He under a rock - no light - cant reach him to feed him. I want to move him but not sure how to get him to let go without hurting him. I would like to move him to the...

Well - Thank you everyone! Mystery solved. I was really doubting as yesterday when I got home from work I found the 3rd "remains" and no crabs to be found. But a quick investigation just now showed THREE hermit crabs happily grazing on my hair algae! Do I need to add some "bigger" empty...

ummm. maybe your right, I will have to keep an eye on the tank and see if I can find more than one at a time. Come to think about it, it seems all Im finding is the claw area of the crab. I asumed the "soft" part was eaten by other critters. I pick the shells out of the rocks when I see them...

I got a nice clean up crew consisting of some crabs and snails. Well starting to run into a problems. They are getting trap/stuck in my rocks and dieing! So far 2 out of 3 crabs have climbed around on the live rocks and managed to get themselves stuck in crevices. Then they are helpless! I...

You got it! Upside down AND reversed!!

Is the reflection in a spoon reversed, upright, up-side-down or normal? (don't go look either!) I never really thought about this until my "soon-to-be" teenager daughter (who has now noticed herself in mirrors) noticed she has a reflection on almost anything! This great observation...

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Congrates on the new addition"s" to the family!

OK - visited Pruess today and here are my readings pH: 8.6 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 5 KH: 8 Ca+: 340 Salinity: 1.024 pho: 0.03 I forgot to ask about the odd numbers for the Nitrate. She also said the new lighting I put up (with too long of hours) may be causing a "out brake" until the...

Thanks for all your help! The tank is just over 6 months old. Anemomes has only been in there maybe two months. I will change my power heads around and see if Im dealing with a dead spot. your probably right on that one. I don't think the power head on the other side reaches that corner. The...

Here is a pic of the whole system. As you can see in the lower left corner is where the hair algea is growning the most. This is also where most of the "bubbles" are appearing. You can see the one jet, where as the other just is down under rocks in the left hand corner. The alge is growning...

It's a 46g. Water comes from Pruess Pets in Lansing MI. It's R/O water premixed salt. They do all my water testing. I take in the water and get back a water testing result sheet. They test all the basics - pH, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, KH, Ca+, Mag, salinity. Last water change I took off...