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shouldnt it be green if it was an emerald crab ?

Here's a pic

I have found a new hitch-hiker on my live rock. Its a dark brown, hairy all over crab. Its claws are very big, but are not pointy/sharp like most crab claws, they are more like flat, blunt tongs with a large surface area (about 2 mm in diameter on each 'point') if you understand what I mean...

Hi everyone, I've had a small 40 litre puffer tank running for 7 weeks. We have been experiencing a hair algae problem now for about 3-4 of those weeks, and cant seem to get rid of it. I disturb its growth every 3 days or so, but within 2 days, its covered the gravel and rocks again. Is...

Been in there for 4 weeks now. Ive noticed this morning that most damaged scales have fallen off, so it looks like its due to either a fight or a rock scrape... Thx

Ive got 5 Yellowtail damoiselle's, and I've noticed that one of them has what appears to be damaged scales on one side towards his spine. They appear to be hanging off. I guess he has scraped himself on some rock in the tank? There are plenty of places they race through all the time... Could...

I finally found the exact species. Its a Yellowtail Demoiselle (Neopomacentrus Azysron). Thanks for all your suggestions, as some of you guys were very close. I went to my LFS this w/e and they had a marine book with a carbon copy photo of it, which helped greatly! :) haha Thanks guys for all...

I've just run my fingers over the egg sacks and they are as hard as rock. The eggs have all sunk to the bottom of the sack too. Is this a bad sign? They have been on the glass now for 5 days, and there are new sacks arriving every day.... Thanks.

Mark, You may find this helpful: http://www.eheim.com/Filter_massen.cgi?Text=2&Mode=zeige&welches=2228&Filter=Gesamtliste Although, yours only has two trays as I understand. This is for my Eheim 2228. I have my Rowaphos between the fine filter and substrat on the final (top) tray. I keep my...

Do you have any LR in there? I have a small amount of it on my LR too...

i have these too.. not sure what they are, but they usually just poke their heads out the hole they are in

are they ACTUALLY being killed by the PH ? Maybe they are dying from other reasons, and the PH is sucking up their already dead bodies ?

lol an echo.... thanks anyways guys!

I woke up this morning to find one of my red-legged hermits half torn to pieces next to his shell. I picked the shell out of the aquarium, and got rid of the body. I have since put the shell back in the tank, to find the hermit still in his shell. I initially thought it was another hermit...

Thats very close Steve-S, but its not showing the very distinctive emerald gem spot above the fin, unless mine are very juvenile, and the pix form fishbase are of mature adults. I'll try and get a better pic for you all...