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is thier gonna be a picture of the year contest?

last night (full moon) i looked in my tank wich just had moon lights on and seen my brittle star (about 10") out on the sand close to the glass. wich i thought was strange since it always stays under the rocks and never goes out in the open,so i was watching for a minuite and it started climbing...

im just trying to see how many people are using sand vs. no sand,i keep leening closer to the no sand side of things and am down to only 2 out of 6 tanks having sand left in them

so i just got a ro unit finally after 2 years of keeping saltwater and the first thing my wife said when she seen the waste water going down the drain was i dont bloody think so pal, since i live in a smaller town we have a seperate water bill and she thinks its gonna cost a fortune and waste...

so i finally broke down and bought a ro unit but the question i have is how is it possible to know if it doing what it should be ? im a little scared not to add prime just incase thier is still chlorine or what ever else is in tap water, where i live has a good water source and hasnt really...

im just wondering if anyone here has or does use these as base rock.from what ive read its the same types of rock just from above ground so i would think it would work great compared to lava rock or something else, no one here sells it all the lfs say its crappy and you dont want it but i think...

well im lucky enought to find a couple spots on 2 of my fish (a foxfaceand a domino damsil) i just bought 2 small groupers and i adopted the foxface in the last 2-3 weeks i also have a yellow tang and snowflake eel their all in a 67g qt tank while i set upo the 130g tank i have its just not...

they guy next door to me is trying to sell me an empty 180g tank 72x24x24 with stand,lid and a big canister filter for like 200 bucks the thing i was bothered about is in a tank that big with out a sump am i gonna have water issues i would run 3 aquaclear 500's and a hang on skimmer and not the...

i was just wondering who here came home from work and emptied thier piggybank so they could go buy a leaf lip grouper in the morning just me huh. i think im gonna take in the bottles too mabey get something else

not shure how good of a thing i did today but i did it anyway the lfs i deal with gets thier shipments on thursdays so today(friday) i was lookin and he had a tub of rockcrabs out of thier rock order so stupid kid i am went home with 13 free very large and mean crabs to save them from thier 9...

so i came home today to discover im the proud parent of 3 bangaii cardinals i just wonder if ill be that panicked to see my human child one day ive been expecting them for some time but your never ready ive had the pair for almost 2 years and they have tried lots of times but this is the first...

so i got a real bad case of ich a month and a half or so ago wich i did hypo to the whole tank most of the fish died i think 2 were paraguard overdose possibly the ich 1 to ich for shure once the tank was down in the hypo nitrates rose quite fast wich i change a lot of water over the week but...

i bought a botle of prime bout a week ago no big deal use it 2 or 3 times no big deal yesterday i was making a bucket of top up water (yess crappy tap water for a couple more weeks) thier was tons of tiny black specks in the bottle i noticed righ away cause i pour it in the cap first so does any...

the lionfish in my tank wich is infested with ich and not going well seems to be covered in a very slimy coat wich is hanging off him and all over his whole body can anyone tell me why and what this is/from i had a cowfish die yesterday wich showed a similar coating i know its hard to say on...

ive had ich for about 2 weeks or so its not going well lost 2 fish and have a very sick cowfish and lionfish and a couple not so sick others ive started hypo its been down for mabey 2-3 days tops took a week to get thier used para guard for 3-4 days small signs of inprovement but still very...

so i came home today after work to find that ive lost the battle to ich and now have to fish out my flame angle and valintini puffer i suspected the puffer was gonna die after becoming much worse 2 or 3 days ago sill dam hard to bury your friends ive lowered the sg to 1.012 and has been...

does anyone know if this is ok to do i was told that they have no scales and would die if freshwater dipped i would like to get rid of this ich problem as soon as possible but dont wanna kill any fish in the process also how would you mach the ph in the freshwater

is it possible to get ich weven when you havnt added anything new in a long time seems my cowfish and domino damsle have a bunch of white specks all over and i dont know if i should do something or not thier is no spots on the other fish in the tank

the lfs has a couple sea lillys or feather stars for sale so im wonderin if a yellow tang,flame angle or a general star might cause any problems if i went and bought one also if thier reef safe wich i believe they are

wonderin if a niger (african american) triger would kill snails,hermits or brittle starfish if in the same tank thier is also a large general starfish i would like to keep alive

im thinkin on movin around some fish from tank to tank to help out the problem of a 12" lion in a 67g tank the tank has a lot of rock and corals so he doesnt have much room and is constantly sitting on somethin also i will be moving a 6-8" cowfish with him. in the tank they are goin in 130g...

not that anyone knew i was gone, i just had a broken computer for the last month or so so insted of gettin a new computer i bought another fish tank like any of you would. a friend of mine called it quits and sold me a nicely set up tank that needed a lot of care its a 67g with a 25g sump it...

im tryng to catch a flame angel a friend has and it hasnt gone well so far so can anyone give me some easy plans or ideas how to make a trap or something so we dont have to remove the rock bigals sold him the fish and its been eating all the corals so we do need to catch it soon

so i have a friend wich is very new to the hobby with a tank about 2 weeks old wich was seeded with an established filter if that makes any sence so i stopped by his huse after work and he had a purple nudibranch which i told him was a bad idea he claims he asked the guy at the store wich is a...

just finding out my ammonia is a little high wich im not happy to see any help on a short term solution im gonna do a 10g water change right now should i go get some ammonia chips and through them in the sump for a week mabey its a 130g set up around a month wich i transfered from a year old...