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I thought I would try to order some corals online, so I ordered some zoa's, frogspawn, mushrooms and an orange sun polyp. They all seem okay, except one of the zoa's and orange sun polyp. They don't look dead really, but neither have opened and I received them four days ago. How much time...

I just got a new light it is a T5/MH with 346 Watts for a 30 gallon reef. Live stock is an oscellaris clown, lawnmower blenny, condy, flowerpot, candy cane and zoas. is that too much light? If so, can I replace the 250 W MH bulb with a 150 W. Had to go back to my quad T5 until I can figure...

I was wondering if someone could ID this coral for me. Picked it up a lfs that had quite a selection of reasonably priced corals, but was less than helpful. Figured I could look it up, but can't seem to find it.

We have lost 6 Koi...4 were babies. They start with Red blood spots and red streaks on them...then in some cases blot and float on the top of the water before dieing. They have been treated with pond salt and Pimafix and Melafix. Water changes have been made. We are on well water so there...

I have a colony of xenia that all of the sudden has gone "limp". Don't really know how else to describe it. Have had it for about 4 months and has about doubled in size since I got it. A separate colony that floated off from the original is doing fine. So is everything else. I make water...

I found this snake under a rock around my pond. Was wondering what kind it is. Appears to be harmless but would like to know for sure.

Does anybody know the expected life for AP test kits? Mine are about 3 years old (at least that's how long I've had them, no telling how old they actually are). Anyways, I just moved, put all new water in my tank (1 clown and some corals and inverts) very lightly loaded. I had been kinda...

Hello everyone - haven't posted in a long long time. After spending a year planning to move, finally did so after letting my tanks exist as is for quite a while starting to make new additions. One of these new additions is an LTA in my reef tank (30 gal). After roaming quite a bit he finally...

I have about an 700 gallon pond that I put a lotus in and it has done nothing but deteriorate since I put it in. Other plants are doing very well. The lotus gets full sun and the water depth is about an inch above the soil. It has been in for about 2 months and there has been no new growth...

Does anybody know what the bubble in the center of the picture is. It seems like it just popped up one day.

What LFS's do people use. I like to visit Aquarium World but their prices are pretty high. Best bang for the buck I've found is Fish Land on Westheimer. What other good ones are there.

I am in the planning stages for setting up a 110 gal planted discus tank. Livestock will be discus, a school of 25 or so cardinal tetras and scavengers (cory's for sure and something for algae). Might also consider some rainbow's. Here's what I'm considering for a setup, would like other...

1 1/2 weeks, 3400 pounds of rock and a couple of yards of dirt later, the pond is finished. Thought I would post a few pics. It's about 7.5 ft by 7 ft with about 22 inch water depth. A lot of work but I think it will be well worth it.

I always thought discus were supposed to be very peaceful fish. I added three new discus to a 30 gallon planted tank containing 1 discus. Whenever I feed the old discus chases the new discus all over the tank and nips at them. I took him out and stuck him in a 10 gallon tank for a week. I...

Does anybody keep freshwater moray eels. I've been seeing these at a couple of LFS's and they look really cool. I've found conflicting information on them as far as compatiblilty and care and would like to hear some first hand information.

My three year old son dumped an entire bottle of sunscreen in my 10 gallon tank. I only have one cichlid in there, got him out and put him in a bowl of tap water. What do I do to clean the tank, or do I just trash everything thats in it. Only have gravel and some limestone (I think) rocks.

I have some sort of white gunk on the heater in my discus tank. It is located right above the suction cup holder, is white and gummy feeling. I have been keeping the temperature elevated (90 degrees) and just finished treating with hex a mit. Has anybody seen anything like this? Is it...

My coral banded shrimp decided to show his face so I was able to get a photo. Also decided to throw in a couple of overalls.

I finally managed to get some decent pics of my reef tank so I thought I would post some. That's about all my live stock except for a coral banded shrimp that stays hidden most of the time. I gotta up my light wattage to get some higher light corals.

I have two discus that I recently purchased. A medium sized turquoise and a smaller reddish-brown one (not sure of the name). They are in a 30 gallon and the only other fish is a cory. PH is 7.2, Am and Nitrites are 0. I use peat to soften the water (we have very hard water here). KH is 6...

I just got my tank up and running, finished the cycling and added a striped damsel, gold maroon clown, sailfin tang and a green brain coral. Everything was fine until about 1 week ago when I noticed white spots on the tang. After dismantling the rock and finally catching him, he got a...

Setting up a new reef tank just was not enough. Had to set up a new discus tank at the same time. To bad the kids won't be getting anything for Christmas now. Anyone else around here kept discus. They are such awesome fish, rivaling even the SW fishies. Anyways, if anybody has got any...

I have noticed on some posts that the general consensus on Lion fish is they are not reef safe. I have been doing research on lion's cuz my wife really wants one, but, I want a reef tank. What I've read is they are reef fish, however, they will eat fish that can fit in their mouth, clams and...

I just got an order of live sand that was supposed to come with information on how to add it to my tank. It didn't. I know I saw a post somewhere, sometime that had advice on how to rinse it and add it to an existing aquarium with minimal cloudiness. I cannot find that post now? Help please.

I have been cycling my tank for about 1 1/2 weeks now and I have discovered at least 4 of these snail looking things. I tried to get a photo, but I definitely need to work on my tank photography, plus they hide when the light is on. Basically, they are the color of pea soup and they look like...