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Hitched a ride on a coral in the LFS. Region unknown. It's in the family of cone snails, color red. It's actually eating holes in my sponge and eating live astreas snails of equal size clean out of the shell. It's got a big appetite for a 1-1/2" snail. Venomous that shoots a spear from it's...

My astreas snail keeps me awake all night. It only moves from the arm of the power head to feed on algae for an hour or so, then returns back to the power heads arm and wedges it's shell between the arm and glass. (The arm with the suction cup) (Over the power head) The snail will work it's way...

Last year I set up a 150 gallon tank. 48x24x30 tank. Filled it with 300lbs of rock/live rock. The sand started getting dirty so I thought HEY GET A DIAMOND GOBY! So this fish with an appetite for sand is more like a hover vacuum cleaner. I would have never expected so much from one little fish...

New 10 gallon tank with all new water as QT using an established wet/dry filter already cycled. You would think, happy stress free fish. Mistake. I trusted LFS water testing. LFS said no2 and no3 were near zero levels with water they sold me. I should have made them test it in front of me...

IMAGE THE YELLOWISH BROWN BLUR IN THE PHOTO IS IT'S WEBBED SKIN. When I first noticed it it was a straight like like a brown flat worm. 1 month passed and it grew almost 4 arms to it's body. Characteristics - Size 1/4 inch - Moves 1" every 2 minutes. - Color Brown - 2 antenna off each arm...

New orange sponge. Inside there is a white tube with lots (8+) of human hair like worms that stretch out about 3 inches and wiggle around like earth worms freely in the water twirling or exploring other parts of the sponge. Sometimes they go to the top of the sponge and sometimes they move to...

Not sure how to treat this. A. Remove pollops and rub with tooth brush. B. Remove pollops and put in bucket with many very hungry hermit crabs. C. Remove pollops and put in bucket with out light. D. Treat with med. I don't have hair algae anywhere else in my 150 gal tank except on this pollop...

I have a blue devil in a tank I wan't to drain and put away. My reef tank has fire fish, chromis, a clown, gobies, cleaner shrimps. I will get more tiny passive fish. But I have this blue devil in a tank that I would like to keep if I can but don't want it to attack other fish. At 1 inch long...

This is the photo. They are growing fast and spreading all over my tank super fast hitch hiked from on a coral I got last week. I am worried they can sting. They are little tubes with what looks like a polyp for a head with little hairs that pop out from the sides. They get fat too like they...

Brand new to coral. I bought 5 polyp frags and started feeding them Coral Life liquid food. I've been feeding them every day. Can I over feed them? They are growig faster with more food. My question is... Will the coral food turn in to ammonia or is it different from fish food? Thank you.

Clowns are 1" long. Tank is 150 gallon, 300 lbs of rock and sand. The odd thing is the injured passive clown (missing a complete fin and has bite markes) is now being attacked by the goby and 1 cleaner shrimp (not cleaned but attacked). Is this because it is injured? I wonder if the...

At first I thought it was just my eyes. Then I definitely saw it. It's FAST. This thing is about the size of an ant and moves like, well actually I have never seen anything move so fast I can't even get a good look at it. It came on a new live rock which was attacthed to a live coral. I think...

I just found out that my inseparable pair of red stripte cleaner shimp are both females. I guess that's why the eggs never hatch. Both of them have eggs. Currently my 2 shrimp stay with in inches of each all the time. Is this normal for 2 females to bond like this? However they will steal food...

I had a 3" Angle fish in a tank with lots of live rock. 2 medium red stripe cleaner shrimp and 8 tiny hermit crabs and 2 small damsel fish. A few days ago my very aggressive and much larger angle fish went missing. The angle was a bit large to just go missing. Thinking it might have gotten...

I set up my tank with a 4" sand bed. Added lots of rock and filled it. Before I add fish, I was thinking what if a little fishy digs a hole under a rock and the whole pile tips over and breaks the side glass. Should I take out the rock and sand, then put the rock directly on the bottom to...

I am faced with a difficult choice. My fish jumpped over the over flow on to a filter pad exposed to air, time unknown. The fish was still wet and moving. For the past week the fish has been laying on its side stiff unable to swim breathing hard. Nothing has changed. I've removed the fish to a...

I have these little feather dusters I bought on a rock. Can I buy eggs or something to get these pretty little dusters to spread all over my base rocks?

I bought LR (so they called it) from the store to put in a tank. I have an old tank with only base rock no LR added. They look exactly the same covered with pink and bright green algae. (Took 6 mo for the base rock to turn pink from calcium) Are they both live rock, or both base rock. I don't...

Very upset today. I had a mating pair of redstripe cleaner shrimp, today after the male shrimp molted I found his head and the velvet damsel is very fat! My damsel also ate all my feather dusters tearing them apart to get to the worm and my hermit crabs. Grrr. I grew my shrimps up to 4" and got...

I have a new 150 gallon tank extra deep (low and wide) with a few hundred lbs of live rock in a holding tank ready to go. My other tanks have no sand and no nitrates. Will I start to see nitrates with sand? (Thinking the sand will hold the fish poop creating a problem.) So if sand is good, does...

I got 2 Lysmata amboinensis White-Striped Cleaner Shrimp. One shrimp attacks and inhales everything but the other shimp won't eat. The one that won't eat shedded yesterday. It just hangs out on a rock swaying back and fourth grooming it self. When I put food in front if it, the shrimp gets...

I found this by luck. I had a tank with Nitrates (FOWLR). I have hungry fish. And of course I had nitrates as a result. I have few fish but I learned that when my water level is high there is little room for air at the top between the glass and water line reducing the O2 (oxygen) in the water...

It takes me 8-10 weeks to turn dry rock in to live rock before I can use it as a Nitrogen Cycle filter in my aquariums. I set up bins filled with saltwater and a power head for about 2 months to cycle the rocks. It takes a long time. So here is my idea. Oxygen is a key factor in the nitrogen...

Hello. I am trying to grow dead rock in to live rock. I seeded the dead rock with aerobic and anaerobic bacteria to speed it up. In 10 days I was able to break down all the ammonia and some of the nitrite. I am left with a rock that makes Nitrate like bioballs. I was just told that True Live...