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I floated then was drip-acclimating a Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp from the LFS & he died before I even got him in the tank. I've never lost an animal acclimating it!! Heck, I've only ever lost 2 Bengaii Cardinals weeks apart. The 1st I had had a few weeks, then 1 I had had a few months, died a...

A neighborhood child went into my unoccupied house as we were out front & dumped 1/2 each of TWO packages of food into my 29g tank. After I discovered the incident several minutes later, I was able to skim some of floating pellets off the top & retrieve the sinking wafers. I can't help but...

What's your ultimate tank if you had some extra money, just enough to get your tank? I think mine is kinda humble... I'd want a 40-55g Bowfront w/ a dark or black wood higher stand (32"+) w/ a matching canopy & LEDs for corals (I haven't gotten any yet but might some day). I mainly just wanted a...

I found these lil clear things w/ eyes on my filter sock, so I rinsed it in tank water & they're swimming around! They're not Copepod or Amphipod-like unless it's like the Amphipod larvae stage or something. They remind me of mosquito larvae but not quite. They just sit there for a few seconds...

My overflow tube from overflow box to the box hanging on the back of my tank is sometimes bubble free, then gets a giant bubble near the water level in the tube in the back box!! I hope this makes sense. Are there any tricks for getting that out?? It causes my flow to be too slow which causes my...

My Chaeto is a mess, flowing into the pump area, sticking to my pump sponge filter & skimmer filter... Should I put a rubber band around the Chaeto to contain it?? Or is there something else I could do?? People talk about their "Chaeto ball." I could put my sponge filter back in my bubble trap...

I have a 75g FOWLR that used to have live corals. I pulled a piece of old coral as live rock for my 10g QT. I think I have an old brain(?) coral covered in purple Coralline... And since being in the QT it has a spot where it has turned really white (which I've seen Coralline turn white when it...

What are the lil bugs that scoot around in the water column (I think) and maybe just up & down the glass in FW tanks? They look white or maybe clearish, VERY tiny. I've seen Copepods in saltwater but I didn't know FW have something similar. This is in my *very* lightly planted Glo-fish tank. I...

Nassa Snail Fest during feeding time in my QT w/ my purple Flame Goby (Firefish?? I guess the name is debatable)

Got some new Turbo Snails today... I scrubbed all the algae off my other rocks on the last PWC after my vacation & left one rock alone b/c my Sea Cucumber was on it. I do not want him poisoning my tank! I give him his space!! So I put all my new snails on the algae, I think they are in Algae Heaven!

So weird... #1) he'd have to get into the overflow box which isn't built in #2) he'd have to get past the cylindrical sponge in the box on the backside of the tank from the overflow box #3) then get his shell thru the sock filter & filter box holes!! B/c I made a refugium out of sump.

And need a new 10k light that's more blue than white so that's why the left is more bright (I'm just replacing my bulbs 1 set every week or so) which is where my nocturnal fish hangs out, weird. The Oc. Clowns seem to prefer the blue! HA! But the tank is coming along nicely, I need to pace...

I have so much stuff... I have A LOT of freshwater supplies--name your item(s). If YOU have a Nano Powerhead (Hydor Koralia?? would be nice), try me for trade or offer me a price. I need it for my QT w/ my Bengaii Cardinal w/ torn pectoral fins :(

What is my Dwarf Cerith snail doing?? That long band of clearish white'ish stuff was hanging off him like a ribbon. I just did a regular water change but I did pull most of the LR out 1 rock at time to scrub it in old tank water to remove algae.

Any thoughts, tips or tricks?? I found some wood that was cut ages ago, the bark has fallen off & it has turned grey. I plan to trim it, soak it & run it thru a few just water cycles. Are there any types of wood that are no good for Freshwater tanks?? I'm in Maine. I need to find out what kind...

How bad are flatworms for your DT? My snail tank has flatworms where I'm culturing Copepods. They're practically microscopic & crawling on the sides of the tank. Are they just another creature that my fish will just eat also or...?

Looks like somebody had a "square meal"... I'm guessin my Lawnmower Blenny. We see him up on the top of the powerheads a lot. I think he has OCD.

We've hit Busch Wildlife Sanctuary & on our way to the Juno Beach Marinelife Center... Along the way, we stopped off at the Riverwalk Dive Center by Dive Bar in Jupiter where a Fishtank Kings episode was filmed. There's no tank in the dive shop like on the show! But there is a cylindrical tank...

Sea Urchin... Found this *on* beach in FL, ok for tank??

my new Emerald Crab...

Acclimay-shun Stay-shun! HA!

Photographing fish is HARD! Ha ha ha... These are my new lil guys. One is misbarred & I think it is the dominant one & is a smidge larger. They are so sweet, not shy at all nor aggressive. Will eat anything. They follow my finger along the outside of the tank. I just love them. They were my...

Reflection* My marine tank photo-bombing my pic of my freshwater tank! HA!

I have a 48" Current Satellite light w/ 4 pairs of 21" bulbs, 2 pairs of 10k daylight & 2 pairs of actinic and a couple of LED moonlights. I'm buying 1 pair of bulbs a week to spread out the cost. My LFS talked me into Deep Blue actinic. It makes my tank purple & the water clarity looks lower...

Saw an Amphipod or Copepod in my sump w/ Live Rock!! I'm interested in possibly getting a Mandarin Goby. I need to know if it was an Amphipod or Copepod... A.) how do you tell the diff if I only saw it briefly before it scurried under the rock. I put light in my sump recently (there's no bio...