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So the purple is a sponge? Is that bad? Should I just peel it off and take it out of the tank?

What is this? Should I remove it? It is on a piece of rock that contains about 20 pollups and a ton of bittle star fish.

It looks to be getting worse. A bunch of the tips are being "pinched" off. Here are some pics. We lost AC this weekend and the tank got up to 90+. All we lost was one fish and a cleaner shrimp. Could this be effects from that? It looks to be developing a new "ring" of tips. This may be...

Does it look healthy? It has lost about 6 pieces so far, but it doesn't look any different than it has.

Here are a few...

How do I know what a splitting anemones looks like?

4 little pieces of the anemone have "fallen" off for lack of a better term. They are sitting on the floor of the tank "glowing" like they are still alive. We had a temp problem about 4 days ago and lost some life, but the anemone and clowns that host it all look great. Any ideas. I don't...

yup, mini brittles. I just looked it up. They are very small, maybe .5 inch across. Probably have 20 of them mixed in with the corals. Thanks for your help!

I removed a dead piece of coral from my tank last night and about 6 of these strange looking creatures appeared. They have what looks like a central body with 3 legs and two little arm looking things. Maybe I'm just too new to know what they are, but they look like little mini star fish or...

Top is off, ice paks out, temp is at 83 degrees. Everything looks ok... but I'm really worried about the clowns! They look fine, are eating fine, swimming around in anemone, having fun! Thanks for the advice!

The AC in our house went out last Thursday. We weren't able to get someone out until Monday, and they had to order a part so it won't be fixed til tomorrow. The temp in our house has gotten up to 87 degrees, and I wasn't even thinking about the tank! OMG, it got up to 94 degrees when the...

How do you remove the build up on the surface of the water? I have a 30 gallon nanopod set up. The filter system is built in. There are about 5 slats I can take out for the water to enter the filtration system. Right now I only have the top removed, but I have experimented with removing all...

I was feeding my fish and anemone this evening some shrimp. After feeding, I poured in B-Ionic 1 (cloudy stuff). As I waited for it to mix in, the anemone shrunk all the way into the live rock as fast as it could. It has been over 30 min and it still has not emerged. It has never done this...

I have a 24 gallon nano pod. I changed out 5 gallons of water about 3 days ago. In about 2 days, I had a huge buildup of algae on the sand and glass. I scrape the glass off everyday, but the sand is a different story. Should I be concerned? What should I do to prevent this? Cleaner crew...

Another question... I have the Sunpod 24 hr hqi lights. Here is what I've been running so far... 4 pm - 11 pm - Metal Halide 11 pm - 7 am - Blue LED 7 am - 4 pm - White LED There is about 30 mins of overlap each time they change. Does this sound about right?

Sorry for the confusion, but I only have two damsels now, one being a chromus. I added them after I lost the clowns because they were very inexpensive and I wanted to see if they would survive. My water has always tested great, with the exception of the day after the cleaner shrimp died. I had a...

My tests have been great for over 2 weeks now, so I added two damsels, chromus and chrysiptera. They are doing fantastic. Corals are doing great, and I have added two more turbo snail, no more casualities yet! I think everything is cycled, its been almost 6 weeks. The salt water I have is...

I added the clowns after less than two weeks on the advice of our fish shop. Then the cleaner shrimp about a week later. They all died same day, and another shop said I had a spike in nitrites that same day and to expect them to die. I have been back to the original shop, and he said to come by...

4 wk old 24 gal aquapod with 15 lb or so of cultured live rock It has tested great for about 3 wks now, but I lost my two clowns and two cleaner shrimp. My pollup corals are doing great, and I added two damsels yesterday and they are eating and doing great. When should I add the two clowns...