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I just set up a Red Sea Reefer 170 2 days ago, and the stock ATO doesn't work, really ....doesn't work at all, no water comes out when float is down. I want to buy a Tunze Nano 3132 to use as my ATO. Question is , when I put my hand in the tank to arrange things or flip back over stupid snails...

My zoas are getting taller. The lfs said it was because they aren't getting enough light. I've had to move some due to my duncans getting very big. I've put them higher on my live rock, that's the only place to put them. I haven't checked my water parameters in 2 weeks but this has been...

I have a dottyback in my 10 gal QT, I'm treating it for ich. I'musing the hyposalinity treatment. I'm using a refractometer, I've got the sg down to 1.009. I need to do a water change soon, maybe 1-2 gal. Does any one know the grams of salt to water ratio to get 1.009? I'm using Red Sea Coral...

My bristle-worm population is getting too high and I think they are eating my snails. I've noticed the worms are on the glass, sand bed, in empty snail shells, pretty much every where any time of the day. Any one have any ideas for a worm trap or ways to thin the population a bit? Thanks!

I got a Bumble Bee snail several years ago. It only has one yellow stripe. I picked up a couple more at LFS and their BB snails have several yellow stripes. Can you paint snails? :ermm: I think my new additions are painted, they are very black and yellow. Jill

I bought some candy cane frags last weekend. One is dying and the other isn't doing very well. I bought them at two different LFS. I also bought a couple of zoa frags that are doing well. I have a 37gal with this light: HO T5 Aquarium Light Fixture: Coralife Lunar Aqualight HO T5 Aquarium...

My tank has been set up for 4 yrs. I've recently added some shrimp, snails and blue legged hermits. A couple of weeks ago I noticed a couple of red and white "threads" coming out of my live rock. I saw it again today. Four legs coming out of different holes in the rock, close enough that it...

I had 2 fish (a royal gramma and a clown) die in my QT last week. It's a 10 gal with a HOB filter, I seeded the foam block with my DT for over 4 months. I don't have any tank lights, just a glass cover. The RG wasn't eating so I figured he was sick when I got him. I had two clownfish in the...

I had 2 fish (a royal gramma and a clown) die in my QT last week. It's a 10 gal with a HOB filter, I seeded the foam block with my DT for over 4 months. I don't have any tank lights, just a glass cover. The RG wasn't eating so I figured he was sick when I got him. I had two clownfish in the...

I have 2 ocellaris clowns and a royal gramma in a 10 gal QT. They have been there for 2 weeks. One of the clowns is noticeably lighter in color than the other one, when I bought them I couldn't tell them apart. The brighter one is the "alpha". Could there be a change in color because of...

I have a 37 gal with one Pajama Cardinal. He's been the only fish for 3 yrs with the exception of some snails. This is my daughters tank and this little fish cannot get ick, it would break her heart. I bought a Royal Gramma and a clown fish yesterday and put them in a quarantine tank. My...

I'm confused about cyno and diatoms. I have both. I'm in the process of turning a 37 gal FOWLR in to a reef. It has been set up for 4 yrs with only 1 pajama fish and 4 nasarius snails. I've recently put in new lights, 2 actinic and 2 T5s. 2 weeks ago I added 4 peppermint shrimp, which are...

I have a lot of aptasia in my tank, 37 gal. I bought 4 peppermint shrimp and they are hiding. I'm hoping they will get used to their new home but I'm ready to start stocking some corals in the tank and want to get rid of these things,at least the big ones. When you say "inject them with..."...

I have a neglected 37gal tank, but that is about to change. I have 1 pajama fish that has been the only fish for a year. I want to turn this tank into a reef with just the 1 fish and add hermits crabs, snails, button polyps, mushrooms, very easy stuff to maintain. This is my daughter's tank...

I'm thinking of starting up my reef tank again. A couple of years ago I had a 24 nano cube that had a small amount of 'shrooms, rics, zoas, and inverts. I kept a 30 gallon tank of salt water in the basement for water changes. The basement flooded and I think my husband contaminated the salt...

My 24 aquapod has crashed and the only things that I still have is a figi leather, sad looking zoas and hair algae. I'm not sure why the tank crashed but think the vat we use for making water was contaminated with cleaning products, that was 2 months ago. I've tried to manually get rid of the...

I have a fire shrimp that looks like it's about to explode! It usually hides but today he was out and i was surprised how big it was. Now he is laying on his side not looking so good. Do they sometimes have trouble with molting? It's been about 3-4 weeks since his last molt.

I bought some candy cane coral at the LFS and noticed something on the hard branches. It's too small for pics.To me, it looks like baby xenia, but I'm worried it could be aptasia. Do xenia and aptasia have different amount of "arms" respectively? This stuff is really too small to even count...

I've had my zoas for about 2 months. When I first got the frag there was hardly any rock exposed,now it looks like the tissue is receding. I found aptasia on it a couple of weeks ago and thought I had killed it, but now it has come back (I used pickling lime).Is the aptasia the culprit or...

Hi, This has been on my Zoas and moving around and making my Zoas mad:mad:. Is this Aptasia? or something else

I've had this toadstool for a month and still no polyp extensions. For the past 3 weeks I've have it in a strong water flow. Yesterday I moved the flow to hit the front glass and still no extension. What do I try now? Is this a toadstool that will have any polyp extension? My water parameters...

Hi gang, Well my first corals came today in the mail ! My CUC has been in for a couple weeks and now my corals are in, YEA! I bought a Toadstool, some pink, blue, and green mushrooms, some Neon Watermelons , and metallic pink zoas. I'm Sooooooo Excited !!!!:smilecolros: Finally MY OWN TANK ...

My tank has been cycled now for 2 weeks. I thought I had enough algae and diatoms to warrant a CUC (3 astrea snails, 3 nassarius snails, and 3 hermit crabs). I had so much algae that I cut back on the lighting from 9 hrs a day to 7. Now the CUC has done its job I think too well. I have...

Hi, I've finally decided to be a member since my husband ( joeyfromlawrenceville) is here all the time and I now have my own 24 Aquapod and I'm sure he's tired of asking my questions for me. I managed a lfs in the 80's when a wet/dry filter was the new thing, my, have fish keeping changed...

Hi, I've been lurking around in here for several months. This is my first post so please be gentle. I have an Aquapod 24 64 W pc lighting,25 lbs of LR fully cured. My tank has cycled and I'm ready to put a CUC this weekend. I'm thinking 2-4 turbo snails,3-4 nassarius snails, a couple of...