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  1. pairenoid

    got a 20L for about 2 years, moving to studio apartment, want to downsize

    I want to get a new tank thats a bit smaller, maybe 15, but can't bring along my 20L. Its had a crack near the top and I don't want to keep it any more if I move. I have paired clownfishes, 1 large ywm goby x pistol shrimp, 1 cleaner shrimp, a handful of snails and a halloween crab that is...
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    tiger conch pooping too much?

    i only have 1 tiger conch in my 20 long, and all this time i never saw him. I would maybe see him once or twice a week, but my tank is very dirty with 'sand' every week. I finally came to the conclusion it was all done by him, the snail i never see, has poop all over my rocks, mainly the ones in...
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    is it safe to use ro water as long as it has 0 tds?

    my ro/di unit is reading 0 tds, but i ran extremly hot water through it and i think messed up my membrane because my pressure gauge isnt working and the clean water comes out 2x faster than normal BUT, the tds is still 0. I am filling up my buckets as we speak and will use it, but im worried...
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    did i break my ro/di unit

    i was doing a water change today and noticed my pressure gauge was not working, next thing i notice was that the water was burning hot than i realized im getting way more water than usual, and i hear that is bad i have a 75 gpd ro unit from bulkreef supply and have NO idea on what to replace...
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    do feather dusters retract?

    i noticed i have a red looking apitasia, that retreated in the rock, but than i noticed a tube i have never seen before. I had my tank a year, and i inspect it weekly, i was shocked to see a red feather duster?, which is extremely tiny. The tube part of it, was not here a few weeks ago, or maybe...
  6. pairenoid

    am i stocked?

    20 long and I have a full grown ywm, a normal midas blenny, and a small clownfish I also have a pistol shrimp, skunk shrimp, 2 nass snail, 2 nerite, 1 tiger conch i also have a lot of corals I have been thinking about adding another fish, anything possible? ive had my tank a year maybe and...
  7. pairenoid

    is the dusty looking brown stuff on my powerhead algae?

    everyday I baster it off, everyday it comes back. Is there something I can buy that will eat that stuff? I have a good cleanup crew but my powerheads get dirty fast, I will eventually just clean them in my next water change but it would be nice if something ate that kind of algae, i have a lot...
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    what is the brown dust like algae

    i have this brown like dust like algae that when i baster, it just relocates. Basically i have to baster my powerhead everyday because they get overrun with algae or dust, its all over my tank all over my rocks i do a water change every week and use ro/di water, is there anything i can get to...
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    frog spawn bleaching

    so i got a medium size frogspawn a few weeks ago for 25 bucks, it was perfect. It looks bleached now and more transparent, but its grown like 3x the size in this short amount of time am i able to spot feed it? i think its fine because it hasnt gotten worse, and the tentacles are huge n longer...
  10. pairenoid

    aptaisa sure are strong

    i have one that is literally growing on the bottom of one of my live rocks. It is submerged about 90% of the time under gravel. I only see it when my pistol creates a burrow there maybe like once a week, but its still growing... my peppermint shrimp has not even taken care of 1 little aptaisa...
  11. pairenoid

    oily film surface remedies?

    i want to stress that i do not want to change my powerhead set up, i only got the oily surface AFTER i replaced my single 750 evo with 2x425 nanos i love how my corals and fish look and the silence of everything given this information, what are other remedies? is a bubble stone helpful? i...
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    how much salinity do you make your water change water

    im at 1.026 and creeping to 1.027, usually i just add 1.024 and im back to around 1.025 to 1.026 is it ok to put in like 1.022 ? and hope my salinity kicks to 1.025? dont want to shock anything 20 gallon, usually do 2-3 gallon changes
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    do greenstar polyps move because they are happy

    as in move like wind is blowing on them. I had it in one of my lowest flow spots and it moved like crazy, like a wind was going 30 mph over it. I switched the spot to the middle, swapping it with my xenia because my xenia was not looking happy after a month. Now my xenia is moving good and my...
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    where to place frogspawn

    i got a frogspawn and the guy just ripped it off where it was, didnt know what frogspawns look like at the stem. So its got a nice size but the stem was just ripped off the rock, is that ok(its like white at the bottom)? it looks like i cant place it vertically. Basically like a worm shape with...
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    is my anemone sick

    i got all the common symptoms, bleached, moved to a spot in partial shade, and wont eat. I tried feeding it pelllets since everything else just bounced off of him, and after i come back in 10 minutes the pellets are all shredded up like ground beef and he hasnt eaten it. I hear they can eat it...
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    bubble tip?

    i was told it was a bta which is what i wanted but after comparing with others it does not really look similar the person said it was a green bubble tip anemone just acclimated it a few hours ago
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    are midas blenny known for pecking at algae on the glass

    mine has been doing this and i havent heard of them eating algae. Im wondering because he eats a lot but maybe i am not feeding him a lot
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    2 questions video inside

    IMG 0157 - YouTube what is my pistol shrimp doing, he does this all day everyday just clipping away at the rocks also does my mushroom coral look happy, when i look at other mushrooms they are always stuck to the rock but mine looks like its floating, its pretty big and its my fastest growing...
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    how come i never see my fish poop

    when i had tropical fish they pooped all the time, and right now i just realized i have never seen my fish poop once sometimes i see remains of their poop, but it would be nice to see what their poop looks like, just to make sure they are healthy :) at first i thought it was because i was...
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    brown algae and nerite snails

    i think i have nerite snails Saltwater Aquarium Invertebrates for Marine Aquariums: Nerite Snail they look like the one on the right, i also think i have many nerite snail eggs, they are like white specs of paint all over the tank i keep scrubbing off anyways on my back tank ive been slowly...
  21. pairenoid

    is my pistol shrimp too active

    once i got my YWM he has never stayed in his burrow. Besides the regular sleeping part, hes always going out really far all over my tank and moving corals and going on my rock and attacking my rocks. He will just climb up a rock as far as possible from his home, use his right big claw and start...
  22. pairenoid

    cant seem to get my powerhead to ripple the surface

    my new powerheads (x2 425) are a lot weaker than my 750 koralia. I am putting them in random spots to test it out, and i cant seem to set it up in such a way where there is flow everywhere AND its rippling the surface is it mandatory the surface is rippled? i have one on the left back towards...
  23. pairenoid

    how useful are hermit crabs

    so i might be missing one or two, im not even sure how. One of them i saw leave his shell to enter a new one, but i came back a day later and both shells are empty and hes missing :-( i had 5, since day 1 of finished cycle. I have snails and shrimp also. Would i eventually have to replace my...
  24. pairenoid

    new food for fishes

    pinch of mysis shrimp pinch of frozen dried shrimp from petsmart pinch of algae pellets, this has been my tanks diet for 5 months, i think i can change it up now. I have like 90% of the food left, stuff lasts forever! i dont want anything frozen, but i am open to being persuaded :p what do fish...
  25. pairenoid

    are frog spawns hard to care for

    on live aquaria it says it requires iodine and other trace elements, and im only using ro/di water with salt from petsmart and i only have 2x24 watt t5ho nova extreme in a 20 long, would it die? grow slowly? should i not even try if i dont plan on adding trace elements manually right now i...
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