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I have had my tank for over a year, and all of a sudden my soft corals polyps arent coming out. I tested my water, and I have had a huge ammonia spike. There isn't anything dead in my tank that I can see, however I have a flowerpot coral and a candy cane that arent the healthiest, but they arent...

yeah, I spent $100.00 on snails and within a month they were all eaten.. by my hitchiker. Get them out if you can...

yeah, I spent $100.00 on snails and within a month they were all eaten.. by my hitchiker. Get them out if you can...

the fuzzy crab sounds like a hitchiker crab... does it look like the crab in the pic above? if so, its bad news. I got mine out by picking out the rock that I knew the crab was in and moving it to the QT. It ticked the crab off so bad that he was out of the rock before I even made it to the QT...

I purchased an elegance coral approx 3 weeks ago. up until about 10 days ago it looked beautiful. now it is closed up and has this spider web type substance all over it. I moved it up higher in the tank thinking it wasnt getting enough light / water. hasn't seemed to help. Any thoughts...

toadstool maybe.. definitely not the hammer coral or the plate coral. Mushrooms are probably your best bet, some polyps maybe.. but the hard corals IMO need more light.

I also have a percula clown and 3 yellow tail damsels. Try moving some of your rocks and/or decorations around. That seemed to work for mine. The damsel is territorial and if you change the territory, they sometimes arent as aggressive. Hope this helps.

I just purchased a madarin goby from the LFS, and I do believe the poor thing has been starved. He is so skinny!! I have plenty of copepods for him to eat... will him feeding be a problem?

Thanks so much... Hope it lives....

is fraging a LPS the same as a soft coral? not sure how to do that... I dont wanna kill the remaining branches....

I'm definitly interested.. except I live in california. Any idea what the shipping would be on the setup?

I'm definitly interested.. except I live in california. Any idea what the shipping would be on the setup?

We purchased a frogspawn about 6-8 weeks ago, and thought it wasn't getting enough light. we moved it about a week ago, now one of the branches (it has 4 total) won't hardly come out of the skeleton. What could be the cause of this and will it effect the other branches. the color of the affected...

I just noticed that my peppermint shrimp has eggs under its belly. Should I remove it and put it in the QT or should I leave it in my DT? I have a brittle star and a skunk cleaner that I would hate to have eat the eggs. Any suggestions would be great! Denise

All great names, I realy like Mr Pink :D The 2 percs are Cosmo And Wanda from The Fairly Odd Parents. LMB is Benny the Blenny, just cause. Yellow Tang is Lucy. She just looks like a Lucy, could be a Twin Peaks flashback. Cleaner Shrimp is Bubba, our 6 year old named him. The Peppermint Shrimps...

We are from Paradise CA, about 20 mins east of Chico. We recently started a 75 gal Reef tank. It is doing quite well thanks to all of the advice and articles here. We really could not have done it with out you AA.com. Steve & Dee

our ph usually is 8.0 in the early am.... in the afternoon it jumps to 8.2.

also, FYI, my once very docile clowns now are somewhat protective and aggressive around my new anemone. They have bitten us a few times... they will also poach food from others to feed the anemone. We are letting them feed the anemone, because that is when we got bit... trying to feed it.

for what its worth, I just bought a beautiful bubble tip 3 days ago. From what I read, as long as the mouth is nice and tight and the anemone retracts, it should be healthy. once they are comfortable in their location, they relax and their tentacles look farther apart. It just depends on the...

I traded the 2 that surived the trip from LR.com to my lfs. The smaller one became lunch for the bigger. Once I feel a little more comfortable with my system my lfs guy will get me some xenia. I was told there is a big demand for the peacock mantis right now Steve

Steve-s thanks for the reply. I almost agree with you, but the on again off again spots are daily, not the 3-4 days I have been reading. Plus they disappear rapidly. This morning when I got home Cosmo had 4 pinpoint spots on him, within 20 minutes of me starting work around his tank his spots...

Love the name, kinda creepy. I envy the pics wish I could pull that off. Thanks for sharing. "beep, beep" :twisted: Steve

Well I spent most of the night scouring aa and others for any info I could find on ick and it's tx. This is the conclusion I have come up with: Ick is way overdiagnosed and there is alot of differing opinions on it's lifecycle and the proper tx. It seems to me that every white mark on a fish is...

Update: I got home this morning to find Cosmo on the bottom of the qt very lethargic, with 2 small white spots on his body. These spots are not raised just spots and about the size of a grain of salt. We have not noticed any scratching of rubbing behavior. Respiration appears to be normal, good...

We have a fairly new tank, 6 weeks old, and just added 2 clowns and 1 cardinal to the display 1 week ago. Everything is going good chemistry wise. Yesterday we found 2 small white spots on 1 of the clowns and he had clamped fins. We moved him to the qt. Later in the day no spots very active and...