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I have a 29 gal discus tank. I got a couple plants in there, but they are not thriving. I don't want a whole lot of complicated stuff goin on, but I do want to be able to keep more types of plants and have them a little healthier. I was thinking of upgrading my bulb (I have a regular flourescent...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My gorgonian has been through some trauma. I know they are not easy to keep; and I thought I had lost it. I managed to nurse it back to health....Hooray! It's polyps are coming out again. I didn't see them for...

I have a 29 gal tank. It has a whisper 60 HOB filter, which is over the recommended filtration. I also have an airstone in the tank. The current stock in the tank is as follows: One pleco 5" Three neons, total 3" One australlian rainbow 2" Five feeder guppies (that refuse to die), total 3" Four...

I bought a gorgonian a couple days ago. I noticed this twig-like thing with itty bitty polyps on it wrapped around one of the branches. Anyone know what that could be??

I returned my sea clone skimmer today. I picked up a coralife super skimmer to replace it. I'm afraid it may cause an overflow, and it's really big for my tank (20 gal high). I won't be using this skimmer for this tank. I'll just stick it in the closet for future use. I've narrowed down my...

I noticed this thing crawling on my glass this morning. I can't find my camera, so I'll do my best to describe it. About a half inch long coloring is a purplish mauve moves across the glass very slow underside of the body is white and looks like a snail end of the underside of body comes to a...

I just bought a patch of zoas from the LFS. I was getting ready to start acclimating them and I saw a bristleworm on the zoas. He started climbing in a hole in the rock and now I can't see him. I do not want this thing in my tank. What can I do to get him out?

Here's the plan: 15 gal tank BB Sponge filter Small air pump and airstone standard flourescent light 50w heater breeding cage for early stage (first 4 weeks) plastic plants small piece of LR for pods to grow, and a little extra filtration. I'm thinking of getting a large acrylic tube for the...

I just bought 4 seahorses on Saturday. Two of them were dance-fighting for about an hour earlier today. I got home @ 10 tonight and the yellow male's pouch was swollen and red. When he hit the light a certain way, I could see eggs in his pouch. What do I do now???

I just fed my scooter blenny.....and I didn't see my scooter blenny. Yesterday I saw him in the back of the tank. I haven't seen him all day today. So I fed him, and he usually comes out of whatever crevice he's hiding in. But this time he didn't. And I can't find him anywhere. I'm assuming he's...

I have a critter living in a hole in my LR. I just noticed him last night. It doesn't come completely out of the rock, so I haven't seen the whole thing. But here's what I did see.... When it came out as far as it would (I watched the hole for about an hour), it looked like a mini white starfish...

My coral isn't "sick". It's broken; which is kinda like sick? So I'm posting this here. If it needs to be moved to another forum, that's fine. I just bought a xenia frag about an hour ago. It has two frags rubberbanded to a piece of LR. I placed it in the bucket to acclimate. When I poured the...

My LFS called this a "mini turbo". It has coraline algae on the shell, but the base of the shell seems to be green. I'm thinkin it's an Astraea snail, but I'd def like a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and even 6th opinion. :rocol:

I used all my buckets to mix SW in, so I bought three new buckets for my FW tanks. I got them at walmart, and they are the same buckets I've been using for years. When I bought them, I noticed the inside of the buckets looked glossy. They had a slight smell to them; kinda like new plastic, but...

I got bugs. I got LOTS of bugs! Itty Bitty Tiny white bugs. A couple days ago I noticed little white balls in a dotted line formation going on an angle up the back of my glass. Maybe 8-10 in a row. And 1, maybe three scattered on the front and side of the glass. I thought my nassarius needed...

I'm headed down to Lancaster to That Fish Place today (got a 30% off coupon!). I have some questions before I make any addition purchases...... I put a piece of sponge on the end of my skimmer to stop micro bubbles from going in the tank. It's pretty effective, however, it seriously cut back my...

I finally got my honey to download and size some pics for me so that I too can share my underwater pets with all of you. They are posted in my gallery, but I cannot figure out how to post them in the forums. Help please!

Ok, I have about 19 topics going out there, so I decided to start a tank log and stick with this one. I'll play catch up of what happened over the last 2 weeks. I set up a tank that I plan to have seahorses and soft corals in. Here's the stats... 20 gal high penguin biowheel filter Seaclone 100...

I'm new to SW. I just finished stocking my LR in my tank 2 days ago. It's uncured and going thru one heck of a cycle (Ammonia at 8.0) I was staring at my rock today and a bug was running across it and hiding in a tiny hole. I think it's a pod, but not sure if it is a pod, is it a copepod or an...

Is it safe to say SPS are the soft, and LPS are the hard? I've been doin a little reading and they are either refered to as hard or soft. Can someone break this down to me?

As some of you know this is my first SW venture. I can read all day, but I don't start grasping concepts until I'm actually working with stuff hands on. Most of the material I've read is very confusing. This may sound dumb....is alkalinity the same as carbonate hardness? My reef test kit has...

So I set up my first SW tank on the 20th. I put 8 lbs of LR in the tank Dec. 26th. I bought 14 more lbs and stuck it in yesterday, and topped it off with a mere half lb. of Tonga branch today. I decided to test the water....... My ph dropped from 8.4 to 7.8. My ammonia is darker than the...

I plan on keeping seahorses, so I went small. I was goin to wait to do SW and go big for my first endeavor. The seahorses peaked my interest and I just couldn't help myself! I set up the tank 8 days ago. I just scored some great LR today for 5$ a lb!!!!! I'm pretty excited! It's like having my...

I've had a planted Discus tank set up for about a year. My discus are doing fantastic. I chose dwarf honey gouramis as tankmates, because they swim slow and do not grow much larger than an inch. Initially all was well. My plants were growing like crazy, and all my fish were in great health...

I set up my first SW tank last week. I have years of experience in FW, and I went with the 1 lb per gallon rule for my sand. I used bahama grand; which is a fine white sand with tons of little shell pieces. I'm not sure if it is live sand?? I don't really know the difference. As I've been...