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Some of you know i am battling hair algea and we are at a stand still but its slowly getting worse I remove as much as I can but it ends up breaking apart and goes everywhere. What creatures will consume this stuff.

How do I go about removing a carpet anemone from my tank. It is perfectly healthy but is around 8" across now from wthe 4" when I bought it 2 months ago. I want to take him to my LFS and trade him for a smaller one. How do I go about removing him from his perch on the live rock without...

I am battling with hair algea its brown to redish brown in color. Its all over the substrate and it seems to have bubbles trapped under it. I have switched from using tap water to buying purified spring water for top off. I have 2 Blue leg hermits and 1 Turbo snail. What causes those bubbles...

I got a serious problem with angel hair algea. Its all over the substrate and its starting to trap bubbles. Will a sand sifting star fix this.

This morning I turned on the lights and one of my two clownfish was missing I searched the tank moving rocks and looking behind the PH and nothing. Could my Carpet Anemone have eaten him. I have no other fish in the tank and a whole fish dont just disappear. Is it possible?

Can you feed an anemone a small scallop? Its a meaty piece of meat and is conveniently 1/2" in diameter.

I have acces to some Texas holy rock, me living in texas its a mere 20 minute drive and i can pick it up off the ground. Its a white colored rock and is full of holes of different sizes and shapes. I know people put some in their Cichlid tanks but can you add these rocks to a SW aquarium...

I have a carpet anemone in my tank now. Is it possible to add another anemone like a BTA or something? If not what other anemone can I add?

After going crazy trying to figure out what type of ligting to get for my tank i settled on T5 HO retrofit strips made by Current USA They were about 18 bux for a 24" strip. They make both 10,000k and 430NM Actinic. IMO 1 24" 10 watt 10,000k looks way brigter then my single 55 watt PC 10,000k...

What is the 10,000k good for? What is the Actinic good for? How should I set the timers for each of these? How long should each one be on?

Ok I bought a carpet anemone and an anemone crab hitched a ride home with me for free. Well I also have 2 Ocilleris Clowns. Will they fight With the Crab. The crab mostly hangs out around the foot of the anemone and rarely goes onto the tentacles. The clowns seem to be spending their time in...

Ok I bought a Carpet Anemone and an Ocilleris Clown. Well an anemone crab hitched a ride with the anemone. My qestions is, will the clowns share the anemone with the crab?

OK I am probibly being cheap or frugal, call it whatever you want. I was thinking about using cinderblock as base rock. Its porous and can be chiped and broken into usable pieces. Has anyone ever used this? I also read an article about making your own liverock from crushed oystershells or...

I have 2 of these little guys. One is doing great. The other was nearly nipped to death by my Blue Damsel and my Coral Banded Shrimp (which are no longer in the tank). They seem to be doing ok and they swim normally. They spend most of their time playing in the current coming out of the...

I have 2 of Ocellaris Clownfish and one of them is spending alot of time on the sand behind a rock just sitting there sometimes it will move around a fan the sand and move it out of the way and kind of make a little indention in the sand. I notice this behavior at night and not during the day...

I have a Peppermint shrimp and it is suggested that iodine be added to the aquarium for proper molting. Does this hold true for all shrimps and crabs. What kind of iodine could i add. I suppose you can't use the medical variety, or can you? Also some Corals and some Anemones require this.

I have made 3 new additions to my tank. 2 Oscilleris Clownfish 1 Banded Coral Shrimp I switched on the light to catch any pods out and about but my banded coral shrimp was chasing the Clownfish and sometimes using those big pinchers to grab them making contact sometimes. This only happens if...

I have some brine shrimp hatching in a hatchery. I want to transfer them to a small aquarium that i have. What do you feed brine shrimp? One website suggested you can feed them flour.

Ok so I bought a protein skimmer and have a 130 Watt PC with moonlight coming next week. What additives do i need for my aquarium to keep soft corals like mushrooms and polyps. What testing do I need to do before i add these creatures. Please make a list.

Ok tonight i broke down and bought a quality skimmer. The only problem is that it did not come with the cap that covers the collection cup. Is this normal or was it suposed to be included in the package? And will the missing lid hinder the function? I set it up and got it running in 15...

http://www.nd.edu/~lego/grp2/www/reef_diy.htm The item at that website sparked my interest because it looks interesting and looks very good. My only question is how Would you start a siphon in an overflow like this. I know the idea is to pull all of the air out of the siphon tubes. But lets...

Will 220 Watts be too much for a 20 gallon long. People here are always talking about the more light the better but how much is too much. This would be 11 Watts of light per gallon. Will this aid in keeping high light corals and anemones? Will this make my aquarium grow algea like crazy...

I want to keep some anemones and corals. Will 3.25 watts per gallon be ok. Or is 6.5 watts per gallon better.

How would I go about moving my reef tank.

In my new aquarium i want to put a button polyp particularly the orange spot. It will be going into a 40 breeder will i be able to put other polyps in there since they grow rapidly?