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It seems that the area has dried up? (Dried up...get it?) Anybody left out there in our little Harrisonburg/Charlottesville/Waynesboro corridor?

Mine came over tonight for dinner. After dinner I go downstairs to check on the tank. My mag cleaner is missing. Im looking all over the tank, it just isnt there. I open the hood and the half that goes inside is floating around in the tank. I look around for the rest and I finally found it...

OK, so Im getting ready to add a 3rd 175 watt MH to my 180 gallon setup and this thought crosses my mind.......My mushrooms have all been hiding as of late. What I mean is, they have all tucked themselves in shady areas of the tank where they are hard to see. I was up reading my book by Eric...

My 180 is now reaching a year old. It was started using the contents of my former 55 gal tank, now commonly refered to as "the sump" . The 55 had a remora skimmer as its primary source of filtration. I made a tall diy skimmer and used it for awhile on the 180, but discontinued all skimming about...

I was looking in my 55 gallon sump last night and I noticed many new critters that havent been noticed in the last year. They look like mysid shrimp, the biggest being 6-7 mm long, many smaller. They arent crawlers like copepods, they are free swimming. They look exactly like reall small shrimp...

First of all, I should say stressed to death. My anemone (RBTA) was near death for the last few days. My wife took the action of destroying it today before it destroyed my tank. I think it was the best option, although she did it before consulting me, I told her she did the right thing. Here...

Well, I guess it was inevitable, I just had a few corals war on each other, with me being the loser. Fist I moved one of my 2 frogspawns too close to a SSP (dont know its name). Came home the next day and the 2 had stringy white goo between them. Moved the frogspawn but it was too late, 2 days...

Im not in a rush to get rid of this guy, but I have had a small clown disappear and I can find no other culprit. I have too many other small fish for this guy to be an issue in my tank. He is a big boy, over a foot accross at his arms and his body is over 2" round. He is not a brittle star, he...

For Sale - $100 plus shipping Used for 6 months, then upgraded from a 55 gal to a 180 tank, this just doesnt cut it anymore. I cleaned it up some and it looks pretty darn good. Ill post pics if necessary, but it looks like all the other ones, no cracks, scratches, just some coraline deposits...

OK People, I need a recommendation for my 180 gallon tank. I used my Remora C in my 180 and it did a great job, its cant keep up in my 180, nor did I really expect it to. The skimmer will go behind the wall in or near my 55 gallon sump, space isnt a problem. Whats the best for my situation?

Curious if any of you have any frags for sale. The 180 is up and stabilized, the corals I got from mrrkva are doing great (I think he gave me some weeds) and Im looking to add some more. Sticking with softies for now, the one acropora he sold me hasnt grown much. Gimme a shout if any of you...

Ive been thinking lately about how to use my existing water flow to aid in filtering my 180's water. Until 20 minutes ago my efforts had only been slightly sucessful. Now this isnt a breakthrough in marine science or anything, but I think its gonna work pretty good. Everyone uses baffles in...

Anybody have any idea how long these take to hatch, if they even will? I have TONS of these things all over my tank, and nothing is eating them. Seems like the last 3 days was Cerith spawning season in Virginia.

Saturday I pick up my 180 from glasscages.com. I am psyched. Right now I have a 55 gal, 20 gall sump. 80 lbs lr in my tank, another 20-30 in the sump (base rock). The changeover is gonna be some slow planning followed by a flurry of activity during the move. Gotta stain and varnish the stand...

Ive gotten my first Yellow Tang to live for more than 8 days. Its been in the display tank 2 weeks, the qt 2 before that. It looks, acts, and eats normally. Nothing is awry except it has a single white dot on its side. Its about a millimeter accross, and when the fish turns you can see the dot...

My skunk cleaner molted on a piece of live rock. I thought it looked pretty cool, but an hour later it had been sucked partially into a crevice in the rock. The next morning it was halfway in, by that evening nothing but a wee little bit of a nose was showing. Riddle solved!!!!

At the base of one of my rocks is a weird thingy. It is either a many armed (15-20) beastie or LOTS of worms coming out of the same hole. This is what happens - Occassionally during the day you will see hair sized long (4 in min) "tentacle" coming out from a spot under the rock. They latch onto...

Today I broke my sump down (20 gallon rebbermaid) and cleaned it. I had a lot of "Crud" buildup in the sump and particulates floating in the water. The sump has one baffle with a large filter sponge at the base of it, a Remora skimmer, two 150 watt heaters, and the return pump. By the way, the...

Snell about the size of a large peanut Covered in hairy spikes Body is white with leopard like spots shell has brown stripes shell is round in the middle, pointed and enlogated on both ends Came with my keys rock, caught him trying to get into a clam. any ideas?

55 gal sw 20 gal sump 80 lb lr #1. I currently am using just an Aqua C Remora and a sponge on the sump intake for filtration, should I add anything else? #2. I was using a power filter to filter my qt tank, which is now empty. After changing the filters, should the unit be ok to use in my...

Bad weather here in the east made life rough this week. I drive 60 miles each way to work, 3 of 5 days this week in snow and ice. I work 11 hours a day so I get up at 4 and get home (at best) at 6:30. I have from then till 9 to do my aquarium maintenance and relax. Thursday night I take the...

Looking for advice on one of these. I think its beautiful, but am wary of the implications to my crabs and snails. Is there anyone out there with personal experience with this fish? Any luck keeping it with inverts?

I placed my fish all in QT about 2 weeks ago due to an ICK outbreak. I used that opportunity to add 40 more lbs of sand (now 4-6" base) and clean and rearrange the LR in my display tank. Since then Ive been keeping a pretty good eye on my display tank. The water has become more clear than ever...

Well somehow my main tank now has ich, so Im gonna have to move all the inhabitants to a 10 gal qt and treat the qt with copper. I dont know how it happened, I got a yellow tang that died in qt of ich (never entered main tank), but now my main tank has it as well. Im moving the 2 firefish, 2...

Im tired of reading arguments about the curing of ich to the point that I have to add something. Science is an evolving art. Laws of science are broken all the time. Eggs used to be bad for me, then they were good, then bad again, now good again. Bumblebees arent areodynamicly stable enough to...