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Hi again I am sorry the profile has not been updated in quite a while. We no longer have the yellow tang. We do clean the filters at least 2 to 3 times a week and we do have a bak pak skimmer. I also do about a 20% water change with RO water once a week. I only feed fresh not frozen so I dont...

Hi Guys I have a major problem I have green hair algea everywhere. I have tried new lights for less time, lower temp, less feeding and no luck. I even tried removing the glass tops and using egg crate the alge is so bad that I am using a turkey baster 2 to 3 times a week and cleaning the filter...

I just wanted to thank everybody for the suggestions on my substrate change. I went from cc to sand today it was quite a job but I am sure glad I did it. I found two pistols and now they have a happy home at the lfs I found pieces of my peppermint where they were hiding so I figured they were...

Thanks everyone I really appreciate all the advice. Only one more question can I use regular playsand from home depot or should I use sand from the lfs I was going to integrate about 5 or so pounds of live sand do you think that will be enough? Thanks again Sue

Thanks everybody this really helps. I have a spare 55 gal tank thats empty if I took about half or a little more of the water and put it in the spare tank then transferred all the live rock and fish into it then removed the rest of the water and cc and then put in the sand,fish and live rock...

Ok thanks everybody is there any way to do a substrate change all at once I have some other issues like fireworms,red slime, and green hair algea that I was hoping the change would help me cure or at least get a jump start on getting rid of these problems. Thanks again, Sue

Hi everybody, I have not posted in a while computer was commiting suicide, all fixed now so here goes. I have cc for substrate and I hate the way it looks now so I have decided to go with live sand. My question is how do I remove all the substrate without causing a spike in ammonia and stressing...

Hi all I seem to be having a problem with green hair like algea. Any suggestions on what I can do to get rid of it? It is starting to make my tank look bad. Thanks Sue

Hey everybody I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing I have been dealing with. Here goes I have 3 clowns ocelerious sorry about the spelling the smallest one is completely nuts whenever we put our hands in the tank to move rocks or retrieve nori clips or any other reason...

OK Here goes we are having issues with something eating all our inverts. We have already caught 3 very large what we were told are fireworms all about 5 inchs or longer and about as big around as a pencil...yuck. We did a water chang and in the bucket with the old water we found hundreds of...

Ok your right I am sorry we did get from live rocks and we did buy some locally that was Fiji...LOL glad to know the other ones are cool to keep in the tank... Sue

We did get ours from liverocks.com it is Figi, I believe they are out of Florida too. We will continue to look for more hopefully there won't be any !!! We do have other smaller bristle worms that we see in the cc on the bottom and also what I think are peanut worms after lots of searching for...

We never knew until hubby went looking for a mantis...we do hear a popping but I am wondering if those are the pistols since he did see 2 of those...any thoughts??? If there were 3 should we tear apart again and look for more or do you think it is safe enough again to add another cleaner? Also...

Lando...could these be what is eating our crabs and snails? We have also lost 2 cleaners and a jawfish over the last couple of months..Thanks for responding... Sue

The tank is a 55 gallon and my hubby pulled them out using hemostats...after he lifted the rocks and saw them..Yuck!!! Sue

Hey all here are the pics of what we think are the worms. Could anybody tell us for sure what they are... They are flat and have spikes down both sides of their bodies... Thanks Sue

Hey everyone again I have come to the conclusion that since no one thinks the bristleworms are the culprits in my missing shrimp and snails then I guess its safe to say I have a mantis problem. I tried the glass with the piece of shrimp in it and all I got was a few snails in the glass and no...

Anybody??? Do we still heed to search for an elusive mantis or do you think this is our problems in the tank...Thanks Sue

Hey everybody I was just wondering if anyone has ever heard of bristleworms killing inverts I was searching for a mantis when I found 3 worms. 2 of them are at least 6 to 8 inches long and the third is short but very big around. The two long ones are almost as big around as my little finger and...

yes there are quite a few broken shells. How do we know where to look for a mantis we know where the pistol is but never seen a mantis. The shells are on both ends of the tank and some in the back. Thanks again everyone

Will a pistol shrimp eat the hermits and snails in our tank or does just the mantis shrimp? We have seen what we thought was a pistol but now our snails and stuff are coming up missing and we do hear popping..maybe clicking sounds from our tank. There are holes under our live rock in the gravel...

Hey everybody I have been offline for a while and have a question about coraline. We have finally started to get coraline in the tank after only about a year and a half wait. My concern is we are going to do a water change over the weekend and we are wondering if removing the water below the...

I think it looks great...Thats what mine looks like so I hope it is fine..LOL

Yes I do we have 3 of them. 2 regent 400 gph and one power head that says 802. The regents may be more I am not too sure. Thanks! Sue

Yes I have a filter,it is an emporer 400 and yes I do also have a protein skimmer. That is a bac pack one. Thanks again! Sue