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I just had two red leg hermits battling it out at the front of the tank, when I saw one of them leap out of its shell and climb on top of the other hermit's shell to hide. I transferred the now-shelless hermit to one of those breeder nets to keep him safe from the fish and other hermits, but is...

I bought some Galaxea coral, probably about 6 months back, and it has not spread since I bought it... I've been keeping calcium levels high (Around 400-450), and an attack of hair algae pretty much destroyed about 75% of the original amount, and coralline's taken over where I got rid of the hair...

I've been told that there are certain reef supplements (iodide and molybdenum) that aren't really advised to supplement unless you're testing for them for risk of overdose, and I was wondering about problems with other supplements? I've heard the only problem with an overdose of calcium is...

I bought some hermit crabs from my LFS, and he said that they were red legs, but then I started looking around, and they don't look much like red legs... As you can see in the picture, the tips of their legs are white, with a red band around the end. [edit] Nevermind, I was looking at the...

I just bought 30 Blue Leg Hermits (Some turned out to be Red Legs, but I'm not complaining), and I noticed about a day after I put them in my tank, some of their shells started bleaching. There's also a small amount of white spots on the coralline algae in my tank (Though there is a big section...

I was thinking of getting those fish that eat up sand and sift it through their gills (I always enjoyed watching them in the fish store and aquariums around here), but I have a few questions: 1) Should I get a goby or blenny? And which kind is the best? 2) Goes with 1, but which causes the least...

I was reading up on hypersalinity dips on live rock, and was wondering on a better way... I've heard 1.035 to 1.040 salinity for one minute, and 1.030 salinity for no more than ten minutes, but I thought to myself: Why not start with 1.030 to 1.035, and after everything has jumped off the live...

Right now I have 15 Nassarius snails, about 15 Astrea snails, 1 BIG Mexican Turbo Snail (He's bigger than my Coral Beauty!), and 1 Emerald Mithrax Crab, but I'm still having a problem with hair algae. I'm planning on another water change soon (After I'm done with my current college assignments...

My tank is about 8 months old now, with plenty of "bugs" swimming around at night, so I think it's ready for a Green Mandarin. The thing I'm wondering now, is how do you QT it? I know most only eat copepods (There's an LFS near here that feeds them bloodworms), and usually a QT tank doesn't have...

I've noticed ever since I put my clownfish in the 3 week QT for Brooklynella, the female's been fighting with the male, leading to separation-by-breeder-net... I put them back in the main tank, and she's still fighting with him. (Humorously enough, she nags him, then does the 'clownfish waggle'...

Not sure if this should be here or the photography forum, but I found some sea hares all around the lagoon beach today, and decided to share some pictures, and a video! YouTube - Sea Hares

I hear all these people asking about how to get rid of nuisance algae, but is algae really that bad? I know as it grows, it gets rid of nitrates and phosphates in the water (which is a very good thing). I originally had a big problem with my pure white sand and live rock turning brown with...

I thought nothing of this round circle when I first spotted it on my glass, thinking it might be some kind of algae growing, but then another one appeared on my overflow box. Another intriguing thing about it, is that it seems to be white underneath the green. It's almost completely flat, and...

When I started up my 5 gal nano, I had a (I think Therma-Temp) alcohol thermometer, which always seemed to read high in the past (when it was in my 5gal) For my 44 gal I got a Coralife electric thermometer, but I think it's reading low... I also got one of the stick-on strip thermometers to...

I came home one day to find my pacific cleaner shrimp had molted! Later that day, I noticed something else different about the shrimp, it's antennae were turning a brilliant pink. The antennae of the other shrimp are still as snow white as they always have been, however. Also, I've googled...

I went to my LFS for some reef pods (With the live copepods swimming about), but they were out of them (Whenever I decide not to buy them, they have them... When I choose to buy them, they're sold out!). Instead, they recommended to me Reef Bugs, which I purchased (Has a bag with several cups...

I just bought my first non-test-strip test kit, because they didn't have cheap test strips for calcium levels (Nitrite/Nitrate/pH/Hardness (freshwater)/alkalinity strips are $12 to $15, compared to $70 for the chemical test kit for the same tests), and I realized all that came with it was a...

I was doing my weekly 10% water change on my 44gal (Refugium brings it up to about 50gal of water), but the pH was about 7.4 to 7.8, so I added buffer... It says 1tsp per 20gal, so I put 2 1/2 tsp in the 5gal I was going to put back in the tank (it's a 50gal tank, so 50gal worth of buffer should...

Today after feeding my fish, I noticed down at the bottom, one of the turbo snails was eating algae next to another, but only one had a shell! None of the other fish or cleaner shrimp seem to be picking at him, and he seems to be doing fine, just no shell. Has anyone else had this problem...

I currently have two clownfish in quarantine (They're not showing any problems anymore and should be safe to put back in the 44gal in a couple days), but the female loves to pick on the male... The solution? Let the male hide in a breeder net! Pretty soon, the clownfish has learned that the...

When I purchased my clownfish, I was pretty sure they were paired already, and even swam side-by-side into the LFS's net. In the tank, every so often they would swim around each other, and the female even did the "clownfish waggle" several times to the male, the male responding once or twice...

I went to feed my fish this morning, only to find my featherduster had shed its crown. After feeding the fish, I grabbed the featherduster crown, and placed it in a small container of aquarium water to get rid of it, and this red worm started crawling out of the crown as soon as it was placed in...

Both of my Percula clownfish came down with Brooklynellosis 10 days ago, so I moved them to a 5 gallon nano I've turned into a QT tank. Sometimes the female and male do the mating dance to each other, sometimes the female rushes at the male, and I think has been nipping at him, but I'm not sure...

I had these shrimp (clear with black or dark brown stripes and spots, the color depending on what they eat) in my aquarium a while back, having caught them from the seagrass beds right off the beach in southern Florida, but have no idea what they are. Unfortunately, these pictures are all I...