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Fluff, pardon the stupid question, but when you say suction cups, would those would be at the end of the tube feet? Whatever this stuff is, it's coming from the inside of the star, being expelled from the tip of where the tube feet end at the very tip of the arm. All of the tube feet, and little...

Thanks for the links. After viewing the info, I'm pretty convinced that what I have is, in fact, a purple linkia.. Or possibly a "violet" linkia, since the picture they had of a purple one was more of a reddish color than mine, but it may have just been the picture lighting. There were a few...

Thanks... Any idea on how to tell the difference, or what that crap was coming out of his arm?

Schoeplein, See, that's the problem I'm coming across. I still don't know, for a fact, that this IS a Purple Linckia (I've also seen it listed on websites as a "Purple Linkia, as did the LFS... I don't think there is a difference). Most of the research I have done only found that not much is...

Thanks Phyl. I agree. I've only had it for 3 or 4 days, which is why I would really like to find out what it was doing when I took that picture. If there is something wrong with it, I'd like to try to fix it. However, it seems to be acting perfectly healthy. When I took the first pic, the...

Well, it's back to normal now. Can anyone tell me what it was doing? Thanks in advance.

I recently added a Purple Linckia Star (or so I'm told that's what it is, so who knows). I have noticed from time to time the end of a tentacle will bulb up, then later will be back to normal. The below picture is what I just saw, and I'm not sure if it's waste, or if it's trying to spawn...

I'm not sure if you were asking if that would be overkill for your set-up, or mine. In my case, I don't think I have enough room under the tank for both. It's a 72 gal RR bowfront.

Cal-Considering most things say to feed "small amounts several times, daily" I was more worried that I may have been under-feeding. But I don't have many fish currently, so I will try cutting back the feeding schedule if the problem persists. I'll also be sure to let the sponge dry out next time...

Oh yeah. I cleaned the sponge w/ hot water.

I probably wasn't changing out the sponge as often as I should have been, so I'm sure that was adding to the problem. I can take another pic of refugium if you let me know what you are looking for. The tank overall is about 1 1/2 years old. The actual tank was replaced about 6 months ago because...

I just upgraded from a wet/dry to a refugium. Without being entirely sure how to set it up (or even if my terminology is correct), I tried to go by the way the LFS had one set up. The end result is the attached pic. Other than a bigger sponge (I tried to cut up my old one... Good thing I'm not a...

Also, he's a pretty good pic of my bluetile fish. I haven't been able to figure out how to take very good pics of my aquarium, so I was pretty proud of this one. Can you see these pics? They aren't showing on my screen for some reason...

The light just turned on, so everyone's not quite awake yet...

Tank desc: 72 gal bowfront reef ready. Stock: Multiple corals, 1 maroon/gold clown, 1 rose bulb anemone, 1 coral beauty, 1 flame angel (I realize these two may not get along, but this is the first time I've had a problem with them), 1 blue tilefish, 1 christmas wrasse, 1 firefish, 1 dragon goby...

I'm thinking it's not velvet either. The white patch is well above the gills torwards the top of the coral beauty. Looking closer, it appears one of the coral beauty's eyes are significantly more cloudy than the other. The clownfish isn't hovering at the top of the tank, but is venturing to the...

A few days ago, I introduced a new blue tilefish (I know they're tough, but he is cool enough to take a chance) and a coral beauty to my tank. Both looked primo w/ no signs of health issues. Unfortunately, my flame angel started picking on the coral beauty w/in the first hour of introducing him...

I turned off the powerhead and tried working at him for a bit, but w/ no success. I'll try turning it off for a bit and hopefully he'll move out of there on his own. Thanks. If I end up having to use force, what's the risk of doing harm?

I forgot the pic w/ the live rock moved out of the way...

My green bulb anemone managed to get behind my live rock and appears to be stuck on the water intake slits (see picture). I've tried removing him from it but I'm afraid to use too much force in attempting to help. Any suggestions, or will he be able to get out of there when he decides to? Thanks...

Thanks for the advice everyone... I keep them in the shade and they seem pretty content where they are and are open most of the time, even during the day. A couple other unrelated questions though. I tend to have few problems keeping my corals alive, with the exception of cynarinas for some...

Sorry.. Didn't mean to post the same pic 3 times... I was trying to figure out how to get the pic attached. Here's another non-related pic of my lawnmower blenny taking a nap on my leather toadstool... It's a little blurry and the flash spooked him before I could try another, but I thought it...

Sure thing... I still haven't quite figured out the best camera setting for taking aquarium pics, but this is the best I could do... It's only about 3/4" wide.

Is that really a sun coral? I have a very small one (4 tubes) growing off of a rock that use to have a carnation on it and I was told they were growing carnations.

Here's a picture of my set up. To acclimate them, I usually float them for a 1/2 hour and then run a drip for about another 1/2. I'm just using cheap test strips. But I'm more concerned about the consistant nitrate being present than the accuracy of the reading. It's pretty much always midway...