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I have recently found a mantis shrimp in my tank. I have not added rock to my system for about 4 months. The other day I heard clicking from the tank and have been watching it like a hawk to find the cause. Then I saw a wee little mantis head poke out of a piece of rock. Do you think it may have...

I was sitting at the TV tonight winding down from the day and getting ready to go to bed when I heard a strange noise from my tank. I look over to find water cascading from the corner all over my hard wood floor. I ran quickly to get anything that resembled a bucket and the full stack of bath...

I have some algae on one piece of rock and would like to propagate it throughout the tank. Is there any way to attach a piece of algae to other pieces of rock in the tank? BTW its Sargassum.

OK I've decided I want to start keeping corals. I have a few that were attached to my LR when I bought it and would like to keep them healthy. So I bought a tester to check my calcium level and found it to be 360mg/l which according to Seachem is not to far off their recommendation of 380-420...

I have a couple of pics that I'm hoping someone can help with. I have a small colony of some sort of polyp that I suspect is rock anemone but am unsure. You have to look closly at the center of the pic they are very small but visible. Sorry best pic of the 5 I took. The second is an algae...

When you are calculating for bioload do you have to factor in corals and anemones into the overall amount of fish you can stock? How could you do this guess at the finished size of some corals?

OK, so I started a new tank recently. I added L/R to cycle the tank and the first night I noticed a little hairy crab poking out of one of the pieces of rock. So fast forward a week and a half. I want to start to add a clean up crew but am worried that the crab will start munching on my crew. I...

I'm not sure if this is aiptaisia. It definitely looks like it in all the pics I can find but none are the same color. Its very difficult to see in this photo but it is a very deep purple.

After a few years away from salt, I decided to jump back in. Here are a few pics of my new tank(set it up last night). I'm very excited and really have to hold myself back from stocking the tank before it time. Just set up waiting for water. With the lights on and settling. All set up...

I was wondering if anybody has had experience with an overheated tank, and what kind of lasting effects it had on inverts? I came home from work yesterday and it was hot out. Our first real taste of summer at 34C( 97F). The temp inside my house was 87F and the tank was at a whopping 90F. My...

Does anyone have a problem with their Watchman Goby eating their cleanup crew? I just added $200.00 worth of crew this morning to watch Mr. Goby steal a nassarius(which was to big to swallow) then proceed to eat a blue leg and grab another one for later. He didn't adjust for the fact that the...

Does anyone know if polyps can lay dormant for a while? While battling cyano I did a full tank teardown, cleaned all my liverock with a bristle brush and suctioned the top of the sand. While most of the big rocks are in the same place some of the smaller rocks have been turned and placed in...

Has anyone out there switched from PC lighting to MH and been disappointed with the difference? I went from 4x65w Coralife PC to a 175w Mh fixture and find that the PC lighting looked better. I am(and always was) planning on adding my PC lighting to my hood for better coverage but by itself I'm...

Alright what I am wondering is how large these are. They are threaded like a household light bulb but how large is the opening for the bulb to go into. I got my 175w today and was surprized at the size of the socket. this is the light I got...

Just wondering if there is a maximum size that a Seabae Anemone will grow to? I got mine just before Christmas and it was about 2.5 inches across now it is about 7 inches across. I'm kind of afraid it may take over my tank. What if iI have to become like Seymour from The Little Shop of Horrors...

If anyone is running a Red Sea Prizm Pro and the pump is rattling it may be one of a couple of things. 1) The pump may be worn out. To check turn the impeller by hand you should feel resistance and it should not turn a full 360 degrees by itself. 2) The impeller has two white collars on top and...

Just thought I'd share a website with everyone. This guy has some excellent pics on his site. www.seaphotos.com

Is there such a thing as too many pods? When I looked at my tank tonight with a flashlight the whole sand bed was moving. There isn't a spot that you cant see pods. Cool to watch though.

I recently moved to medium town Canada(100 000 people) from a large metropolis area. I must say I am very disappointed with the pricing of marine supplies here. I ran out of salt last night doing a water change and set out this morning to find some. I was dumbfounded when, at a major petstore...

Does anybody know if its possible to get a tube anemone as a hitchhiker? I got a polyp colony about two months ago and tonight I had the flash light out and saw these long skinny tentacles coming from the side of the rock. I couldn't get a good view of it so I lifted the rock to get a better...

I have had my saddleback for over a year and have never heard hide nor hare from him until I introduced a sebae anemone to the tank about three weeks ago. It is kind of weird cause when I feed the anemone I put a chunk of shrimp at the far end of the tank to get him away to get a clear shot at...

I bought a pair of clowns about a year ago and was told that they were tank raised true percs. Well I have always been kind of skeptical that they may be O clowns. I bought Robert Fenners book and was kind of relieved when on page 275 he has a picture of two clowns hosting an anemone and...

I got my first seabae anemone last weekend. I observed it at the lfs and had it put on hold for a bit. It looked healthy in the store and was about 3 1/2" across in the stores tank. I got him home and acclimated it and placed it on a piece of LR thinking he would move if he didn't like it there...

I just got my first seabae anemone yesterday. He has acclimated nicely and attached himself to a nice piece of lr and opened right up. My question is they say to feed him meaty foods like shrimp and such but what they dont say is how big of pieces I should feed to him. Do I puree the shrimp or...

Last night about 8 pm i noticed my tang was acting strange. He was digging in the sand with his nose and kinda rubbing up against the rocks. I didn't notice anything at first but after watching him for a wile i could see little white specks on his side. After trying to catch him for an hour i...