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Got mine at MarineDepot. Bought the green Tunze shoulder length gloves. They are kinda flimsy, but when you stick your arm underwater, they cling to you like nothin' you ever seen before. They are listed as disposable, but I get about 10 - 20 uses per glove. I too like to keep the gunk on my...

Bought that same unit and hooked it up Sunday. We have some nasty water out here but the good thing is that we have high pressure. Water pressure is 70 - 72psi. At that high of pressure I initially had 7 leaks. After 3 days of constant assembly/disassembly, and much use of Teflon Tape, I...

Vermetid snails. Keep them.

Q-Tip sponge or pineapple sponge. http://www.pirx.com/gallery/sponges/sponge02

You should be smoking; cigars that is! You may have just witnessed reproduction in your tank. Congrats!

Possibly an Anemone crab or Porcelain Crab. Keep it!

This branching hammer is attacking my cabbage leather. That sweeper is 4" long. Give it at least 6".

Flipper! :wink:

They are just fine! The first time I saw my Blue Mandarin at 2am I cried. Thought she was dead. She was just sleeping.

I haven't used those bulbs, but, the wattage rating on the bulb is a comparison to standard lighting. So, as far as CF is concerned, you have only 10watts CF. You'll need more light for corals, but if it's FO, you might be ok.

Over here Peppermint shrimp are $12 and Joe's Juice is $15. Peppermints don't go right after aiptasia and eat it, some have to be trained. Some will take days to find the aiptasia and some will take months. Some will never even touch it! One adult aiptasia can produce up to 50 offspring per...

I have been using purified water from the local grocery store for both top-offs and water changes. The label says "prepared by Reverse Osmosis" on it. Been doing this for 5 months now and no problems yet! I even tested it for PO4 and it came up zilch! Haven't bought an RO/DI unit cause my water...

Be careful what you wish for. I wish my coraline wouldn't grow so fast or all over the place. I use B-Ionic.

Joes Juice should work out just fine. If you are trying to kill some aiptasia that are greater than 1" in diameter, then they may shrivel up and not completely die yet. One adult aiptasia can produce about 50 offspring per day. If you are killing off smaller ones then here is a snipet from a...

What is your SG at and what do you check it with? Sounds much like an acclimation issue to me. I had aiptasia and my mandarin loved to rub against them while cruising for pods. They never bothered her. I killed a fish once after an acclimation. My swing arm style hydrometer said my SG was at...