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what's the best lighting for a refuge. or for growing macro algae

hey guys, i had a bright yellow assessor that went missing 2 months ago. was very small so i thought i had lost him. today while i was adjusting some tubes under the tank, i saw him. at first i thought he was dead, but he's alive. really alive he looked real healthy even. he is stuck in...

i don't know what happened, i got home today and my anemone was missing. the water has become cloudy. there are bits and pieces of what looks like shrimp scattered everywhere. me refugium has white crap floating on the water's surface. what's going on? has my aneome died? and does it...

my nitrates used to be around 20 ppm but now they are around 30.... so worried about it getting worse i need help trying to get it under control. help please 72 gal with 18 gal refuge 80 lbs live rock 3 inch sand bed lots of cheato macro alge 1 red mangrove 5 shaving brush plants 18 hermits...

there is this weird bug like thing that came on my zoos.. looks like tiny porcupine bug. brown color like a tiny snail with spikes.. does anybody know what this is?

my water conditions are good. ammonia - 0 nitrites - 0 sl - 1.024 nitrates - 20 however i can't seem to get the water crystal clear. i have lots of really small white snowlike things floating around. everything in the tank seems to be doing fine. should i try to do something about it or is...

what's the best way to set it up? sand or no sand? wet/dry or refuge? i only plan on putting in 25-30 pounds of live rock. opinions please, thanks

i had 5 of these guys together and they just died one by one the same way. it's like they got "too tired" they just lied on their side and went to sleep. i have a 72 gal tank with corals and inverts, goby, blenny, and a orchid dottyback. does anyone think i know what happened?

what's the smallest size these guys come? i was looking for some small ones

can anything live with a puffer? i know they eat everything. i have a 30gal that i keep one puffer in. wanted to add something... was thikning damsels(2) any suggestions?

hey people i've had my fridimani pseudochormis for like 2 weeks. it's been acting normal, i mean no trouble swimming or eating. i've notice it had always had white spots on it. not specks, more like areas. could this be dead skin? when i got him he was in a tank packed with clowns. anyway...

i have a strawberry pseudochromis... small maybe 1.5 inches. he's been eating my shrimp.. they told me he'd only go after the real small ones... he has been attacking and eating shrimp bigger than himself. problem is i've tried to get him out, but he is near impossible to catch... any...

looking for the best book for Invertebrates. the bible of inverts if you will. is there even one out there? thanks!

hey peoples i have a 72 gal tank with a 18 gal refuge... i used to have the filter foam the sponge like thing to cathc all of the un wanted stuff floating around. i took it out to lower my nitrates.... but i think i need some mech filtering i mean some form of it.. i was looking into a...

hey guys and girls, i needed help trying to find the best book for fish references... encyclopedia something like a fish bible if you will... any suggestions?

the snails are doing a great job of eating the algae in the tank, but they're crapping everywhere... is there anything i can get that will clean that up some?

i have a lot of "marine snow"... i mean it looks like snow it's covering the under belly of my rocks but not on the top.. is this a bad thing? should i clean the rock?

hi everyone i have a 72 gal tank and i have 2 peppermint shrimp, 1 lawnmower benny, and a bunch of various crabs and snails. about 60 pounds of rock. oh yeah and a number of bristle worms. which leads me to my question. should i get a coral banded shrimp? or find some other means to rid...

last night i went to look at my tank after work to see one of my peppermint shrimps dead with a pretty big bristle worm on him and a boat load of pods. could it be the worm kill him?

is it reef safe or will it pick on certain corals? or all corals? anemones? anyone has on of these? would love if i could get some feedback, thanks

i have no experience in water treatments, water conditioners... do i need to add calcium? iodine? coral food? i got a 72 gal w/ 15gal refuge with about 40 pounds of live rock bunch of hermit crabs, 3 peppermint shrimp, small batch of star polys, bunch of pods, and a small sponge.

i have these bug like thing all over my tank, this is a good thing right? they look like tiny white mice. can anybody tell me something about this, thank you