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I have a small pair of Harleys I got to remove all the asterinas from my reef. Took them a couple weeks to devour 1000+ asterinas....amazing. Anyways, once they were out and about looking for food, I gave them a 4-5" sand sifting star. They pounced on, drug it around the tank for about a week...

I recently had such a population explosion of asterina stars in one of my cubes that they completely devoured the coraline in the tank and made my beautiful purple LR look more like base rock:rolleyes: A pair of harlequin shrimp to the rescue. Anyways, once the tank is cleaned out, I will...

First of all, I run several smaller cubes between 12 and 50 gallons including 2 JBJ Nanocube 28 HQI's. All of my tanks run identical PWC intervals, dosing schedule (amounts vary obviously), and have similar stock lists. Mostly SPS's and zoas. One of my JBJ 28's however drops 2 full points Alk...

Every once and a while when my BTA is fully inflated and the current in my tank hits it just right a stray tentacle or 2 will brush my sun coral. The BTA retracts violently but the sun coral seems unaffected. Anyone have any opinions on whether or not the BTA is actually hurting the sun coral...

Recently picked up a large sun coral and when I bought it it appeared to have a little dark spot between a few heads that I assumed was an area of flesh recession and algae growth. However, after acclimation, placement, and feeding, I noticed the dark spot opened up and is 2 beautiful deep red...

I can't believe my search didn't pull anything relevent so I apologize if this has been asked a million times...which I suspect it has. I just picked up a juvenile pair of Picasso Clowns 2 days ago and they are acting very healthy right now. They have hosted my GBTA and are always active...

This thing has been growing quickly for months (it's over 8" across and thick too). What is the correct/common name for it?

Need a goby to stir things up in my 28 and want a real busybody...not a watchman type. I really want a diamond, but they are just a little too big for a 28:( Any recommendations?

28 gallon JBJ Nano-Cube 28 HQI slammed with LR and full to the gills with SPS's. No fish bioload and the only feeding in this tank is every once and a while I'll give my GBTA a little piece of kreal or silverside since it isn't being fed by clowns. Tank cycled August 2008 and my parameters...

Let me begin by stating I know NOTHING about crab anatomy....other than the 2 pointy things hurt when they get your finger:D Anyways, my emeralds are very friendly and in view most of the time. Today, my larger one was perched up on a rock with the rear, bottom "plate" on it's body unhinged...

I have a JBJ Nano-Cube 28 with 150w Halide and 64w Actinics. Been up for 5 months or so. It has dual 266 pumps, but the tank is loaded with SPS's (although most are just small frags for now) and I want to upgrade my flow to make them happier. Anyone have suggestions? I was thinking of adding...

My Nano-Cube has 3 foam "screen" filters that I would like to clean. No nitrite spikes or anything, just preventative maintenance. I would order spares, but they are overpriced and I'd rather spend my $$$ on frags:D How do you guys clean foam filters? I rinsed them once in tap water and let...

Picked up a great orange and yellow ric from a member doing a tank breakdown. It's got 3 mouths and in the process of forming a fourth. Most of the ric is on rubble, but one large end with the biggest mouth is not. It kinda waves in the low flow attached to the rest of the main body. I don't...

Local guy had this and I picked it up for a great deal. 30 gallon acrylic made by GlassCages and a 25'ish gallon sump/fuge. Unfortunately, the tank was drilled for closed loop (in unusual locations too:-?) and I want to modify it to have a rear internal overflow and relocate the return and...

Bought some frags from a local member and he threw this in. We were thinking it's a digitata, but it's always "rough" with very little polyp extension unlike my green and orange digitatas. Pictures aren't great but should give you an idea:D

After 5 months or so, I have what appears to be hundreds of tiny snails all over my tank. The largest are maybe 2mm, but they are teeny. All variaties too, some Stomatellas, but most have either pointed shells like Ceriths and others have round shells like Turbos. Some white and translucent...

My 28 gallon cube is pretty much SPS and zoas. I have probably 20+ zoa species and many were bought as small groups (1-5 polyps) because of their rarity and price. While some are growing like weeds (ironically, both that I bought as single polyps have exploded in population), a few of the...

THis was my first coral and I hope it's just shedding. It's been perfect for 3 months and now the last 2 days it's been deflated and kinda folded up and has a "waxy" appearance. The picture below was day one and it's about 3 times this size now, but I though you might want to see it for...

This crawled out today. Kinda scary looking. Looks painful to touch, and in an unremovable location:-?

Moved some rock around in my tank and found several of these on the rock. They do move, but very, very slowly and they seem to just rotate around instead of being truly mobile. I have about 6 of them with a max size of maybe 1/4". I have poked at them and they appear to be hard. They have a...

I have a 4 day trip coming up and with my 8 hour MH/fan cycle, I get minor evaporation. I have someone coming by to top the tank....but I hate relying on people, especially non-aquarium knowledgable ones:p If I were to cut my MH/fan cycle to say 4 hours per day to minimize evaporation in case...

Found a 90 gallon All-Glass RR with the Oceanic stand and canopy for an unbelievable price. 150lb LR, large maroon clown, large snowflake eel, and others. Some corals but they likely won't make it. Setup with a 15 gallon sump but comes with a brand new 25 gallon baffled sump. Has several...

Just found a smokin' deal on a 156 Oceanic that I can't turn down. It's an established tank and has a considerable sand bed. Definantly not an active deep sand bed, but still full of things that probably shouldn't be disturbed. Is there anything that can be done to transport and reuse the...

When I started my tank I worried about these and there is not a real good picture floating around that I could find. Just a drawing on XtalWorld for the most part. I just so happens that I recently bought a zoa cluster that had one in the substrate attached to it, and I placed it at the...

With my latest aquascape (finally happy:D) I have a nice flat area up top about 8" x 14". It's about 8" below the water surface. What are some good corals that love high light and high flow, but grow slowly and/or don't grow tall. I'm guessing most of the SPS's fit my requirements (and I have...