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Just curious, has anyone ever heard of a pistol shrimp or yellow watchman goby eat a feather duster? Or maybe a mantis shrimp or purple reef lobster eating feather dusters?

Hm, okay. I'll go out and buy some frozen stuff and give it a try. The LR is quite small, and it came with the pistol shrimp I bought at my LFS.

The food it gulps down travels through the inside of the body. I don't think bristle stars do that. Bristle stars carries its food over its arms, I think. I'm located near Frederick, yeah. We should high-five each other sometime. :p

Here are some more pictures of the white glob

I have two small pieces of LR that's teeming with life. They're isolated in two jars for now... I do water changes every day for the jars. - One of them is a feather duster. Do you guys know what species? Looks like a juvenile Hawaiian duster to me, but I'm not sure. It's been two days and I've...

Hmm.. I came up with a crazy idea when I was designing the tank. It has to be bigger than 5 gallons now. I've found a calculator: DIY - Calculate Glass Thickness That Fits Your Aquarium | TheAquaTools I'm hoping that this applies to non-tempered glass too?

I called up Lowes and they had non-tempered glass for sale. Unlike Home Depot, they will cut the glass for you. I've read that tempered glass is also referred to as 'safe glass' in that it doesn't crack as easily as normal glass. Naturally, I would think to use tempered. But since Lowes has no...

Oh, let me clarify what I mean then. So, I want a way where I can transfer saltwater from my 20 gallon tanks to my 46 gallon tank and back. I was thinking of buying some pumps to accomplish this task, but I am unsure what type of pump to buy. One solution is to buy a 460 gph pump as the return...

It's saltwater.

It'll have just water.

Hey guys, I have several tanks that I kind of want to connect together. Reason is, it's a hassle to change the water for each tank when all the tanks have the same water parameters. It's taking way too long to finish. Anyway, I have a really ugly 46 gallon tank that I want to use as a main...

Hm, not too long when opened. But refrigeration seems to extend the hatch rate a bit.

How long do brine shrimp and rotifer cysts last on the shelf?

But I've read that scooter blennies rarely accept frozen foods.

Hey guys, so I really want to get a couple of blue-green chromis and a scooter blenny (possibly a pair). My plan is to raise a bunch of copepods, brine shrimp, and rotifers in separate bottles and then feed them to the fish. So, I've read up on copepods, and found several species sold online...

Remember those cute little critters hidden in the beach sand when you were at a young age? Well, just curious, how hard would it be to keep them in an aquarium? Would they just die off like those flame scallops due to its feeding habits?

Thanks for the links. They were an interesting read. However, those pictures depicted pretty large crayfish so the sex difference was pretty easy to see. You could clearly make out those extra swimmerets. So I guess it's not possible to tell the difference at a young age? Should I take a...

Hey guys, I've several questions here: I was looking at some of the blue crayfish my LFS was selling. The thing was, they couldn't really tell which ones were female and which ones were male since the crayfish were pretty small (probably about 1" long). I believe the males have one extra...

Hey guys, I found this long thing squirming in my tank. There are two of them. One is really long and likes to hang vertically in the corner. I don't think these are bristle worms since I didn't see any legs. They're bare. What is this?

Hey guys, I bought some live rock recently, and just today I noticed that there were two bristle worms running around in my tank. One is about an inch long and is pretty thick, and the other is about 2/3 of an inch long and is really thin. I've read some stuff about them but I've gotten mixed...

Hey guys, I'm planning on building a fish tank from scratch soon. I'm sure many of you have done this yourselves, so I was wondering where you guys bought your glass. It seems finding the glass from a reputable business is a bit difficult. Recently, I bumped into a site called GlassCages...

My shrimp has this really big brown spot on the left side of his head. His antenna also has some black spots.. I'm not sure what type of shrimp this is, but it's identical to the freshwater glass shrimp except it's in saltwater. I noticed this before... But it was much much smaller, and I...

Hey guys, I have two mussels in my tank. I know they're filter feeders, but I'm no where near any fish store so I can't buy plankton. However, would it be possible to just chop pieces of meat into very small portions and throw it into the tank? How do you guys feed your shellfish? Would this...

Hey guys, I caught this little guy at Ocean City. Why type of hermit crab is this? Right now it's about the size of a dime. In the shops, I saw land hermit crabs the size of my palm and I'm wondering if those are the same species as the one in my picture? I caught mine in the water so maybe...