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When he was little I fed him flake, but now that he's bigger (6 inches), I feel like he needs a little more variety or something bigger. I'd be interested to know what others are feeding them. Also, I recently had to move his tank (40 gal FOWLR) and I haven't hardly seen him eat since (about a...

I've been messing around with the microscopes and MOTIC-cams in my classroom and caught a nice shot of one of the little critters roaming around in my substrate. I've been trying to find it's classification, but no luck so far. Does anyone have any knowlege on this organism? It's the little...

I'd like to have my class look at and try to identify some of the critters thriving in the substrate of our class tank. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any internet resources to use. Does anyone know of any? The organism that seems to be the most abundant is a red, semitransparent...

My Coral Banded Shrimp (Harold) molted last night. Now, one time he lost one of his little legs (for walking) during the normal course of living, but it grew back after he molted. This time, he was fully intact (as far as I know) but after the molting he has lost one of his really big pincher...

Does anyone know much about engineer gobies (also seen them called convict goby/blenny)? I've done research but I can't seem to find anywhere that tells me how fast they grow. That is, if I buy a juvenile (about 2 1/2" in length) how long before I can expect it to start morhping into it's...

I was planning on using an Aquaclear MINI HOB filter (100 gph) to filter my 10 gal FOWLR (damsels when I get them) tank, but during cycling, the impellar has shown a tendency to jam up. Is this an occurance I should expect or is there something I should be looking for. Perhaps sand getting...

How well would a cleaner shrimp and a coral banded shrimp get along?

I've been cycling my classroom aquarium using drops of a 1M pure ammonia solution from the store-room. Ammonia spiked immiediately. My nitrites have spiked and are coming backdown. almost done right? well my question is this: We are coming up on a 3 day weekend where I won't have access to...

I'm student teaching a sophmore bio class this semester and would really like to set up a tank in the room. I have a spare 10 gallon set-up laying around. I was just wondering what your ideas were for filling it. Nothing too fancy or expensive (it's only going to be up for a couple months and...

I'm student teaching a highschool biology course this semester and was appalled to find no fish in our room. I have an empty ten gallon sitting around at my house so I've decided to set it up in the room - even if only for this one semester. Science rooms need fish. anyway, I'm open to ideas...

Is rain water and/or melted snow a viable source of water for my aquarium. The though just occured to me this morning as I gazed out on the winter wonderland. I'm very frustrated with the poor quality water coming out of my tap and my budget forbids me from getting a ro/di unit. This new idea...

Whenever I do add water to my 30 gallon (including top offs and water changes) I seem to get a significant microalgal bloom. I tested the water source for nitrates and found none. I also tested it for phosphates. According to the color scale, I'm somewhere in between the .5-1 ppm range. I...

While I was vacationing in Jamaica, I bought a large conch (sp?) from a street vendor that I though might be neat in my 30 gallon cube tank (fish/lr/inverts). My mother brought up the idea that perhaps something that the shell might have been treated with (to make it glossy or something) might...

Hello, about a month and a half ago I stocked my 30gallon cube with 3 turbo and 5 cerinth snails to clean up the algae. They have since done a tremendous job. This morning, though, I noticed one of the cerinths leaving some sort of trail on the glass right in front. It's white and seems to be...

how do I know if my snails are dead? With a fish, not swimming is a good indication, but my turbo and ceriths just kinda sit around all day anyway. How long do these snails live? When they do die, should I remove them? Does my coral banded shrimp pose any sort of threat to them?

Will my coral banded shrimp eat any small snails that I put in my tank for algae control?

I believe my coral banded shrimp has lost one of his "legs." He seems to have adapted well without a cane or cruches, but I was wondering if these critters have the ability to regenerate lost appendages. I'm not sure how he lost it. I think he may have sacrificed it in a territorial battle...

I have a 30g cube tank that's been running for about a year. There's one black ocellaris clown and a blue devil damsel. I have about 12lbs of live rock. I've never taken care of inverts before so I was wondering what I have to do differently to support a cleaner shrimp.

Yesterday I bought a pineapple swordtail from Petco for my 10g. This morning, there was no trace of him. Tankmates are a dwarf guorami, 1 bloodfin tetra, 1 cory, 2 platy's. I looked all around the tank, he didn't jump out. Could he be buried in the substrate? I don't know. I doubt he was...

Hey. I have a black ocellarus clownfish (named Poe) that has been doing fine, and still is I guess. But when I bought him, his little head was brilliant orange and now the black on it's body is sort of seeping into that so that now just the parts around his mouth and eyes are still orange. I...

After sifting through the posts in this forum, I think I have deduced that I have some amphipods (or "gross tiny shrimp" according to my girlfriend)living in my tank. But I haven't found anything dealing with the other phenomenon. I don't have the equipment to post a picture right now but...

Man, I am not having a good month with fish. 2 weeks ago I lost my firefish gobie in my SW tank. Now one of my platys, Jaque, has disappeared. I can't imagine where he would have gone. He seemed fine last night but this morning he is no where to be found (rest assured I did a proper sweep of...

I don't know if this is the right forum for this post but... atleast five days ago my firefish goby (emily) went missing in my 30 gallon cube FOWLR tank. I have no idea what happened to her other than maybe she got lost in the LR. perhaps even stuck. has anyone else lost a small fish after...

Hello, I received $60 in fish credit for my LFS recently and am looking forward to spending it. Me and my girlfriend agree that the fire angels and coral beauties are quite possibly the most beautiful fish we have ever seen. Unfortunately, I don't know that much about them. Would one or the...

What is a good way to keep the sand bed clean in my tank? it's a 40 gallon cube with only about 1 - 1/2 inches of sand. It's got 1 damsel and only 2 lbs of lr so far that I put in 2 weeks ago but the sand bed is getting full of all sorts of stuff (looks organic to me). I've already started...