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I know that the fish are not too excited about it. But I have a need to get fairly close to my smaller BTA to feed him. Not that excited about getting stung (if it's possible even). Has anyone heard of or hand any first hand experience in this area? I don't exactly plan on shoving my hand...

Any IDEAS? It's soft and bushy like. Almost look like layered leaves.

Okay here is a strange one. I've got this red growth. Almost looks like a bush that is red with something that appears to be small branchs maybe growing with it. It's growing on the side of an old clam shell I think. I poked at it and it's a sponge like material. Literally bounce back up...

OK.. I've a simple 10 gal QT Tank set aside for introduction of new fish to my main tank. Sponge filter, heater, one LR (for hiding) and lights. I know I can't reuse these items in the main tank. (Inverts) BUT... How does one go about cleaning say the vaccuum that I inserted long enough to...

Anyone have a full proof way to grow these guys and how you handle them? I'm redoing the sump now to have a fuge area for plants and pod raising. What is the going trend that folks have good luck with? What plants? What substrate? Etc..

Okay I never see pictures of how these turn out. So I'm posting mine. For what it's worth this has been a great investment for me. I've currently Five DIY Live Rocks in my main tank. Two of them "had" been a single "Y" shape that got broke. Picture below is from a piece of the broken "Y"...

Okay this is a strange question. Not one I can seem to find a good answer about. How do you know they need to be changed? I've a Coralife 260 watt light. Two Blue Actic and Two 10k White (All four are 65 Watt each) When do you replace the bulbs? (Beside the obvious when they burn out)...

Okay. At first I thought my diet coke had been spiked. So I had the Mrs and kids verify for me. I've got like 10+ little translucent shrimp running around under my largest rock in the tank. A spot the fish can't really get to. Now the strange part. Who is the mother/father? No new live...

Well I'm not sure what this guy is. He has several arms and I usually don't bother this one. Since he is so dang small. But I was sucking up a bristle worm and he got caught. I see these little arms out from under some LR that just check around for food. This is his whole body stretched...

Just wanted to toss out my "Plan" and see if anyone might have a better idea. I've a new 75 GAL that I've cleaned out and rinsed and all ready to start adding things. My 55gal has (Clown, Tang, 2 Damsels, 1 Shrimp, 40 Nass, 30 Cerith, 20 Marg snails) + 60lb LR and LS as well. Step 1: Setup...

Okay this just appeared this morning on my back wall. It has to be some sort of snail. I just got a screaming deal from Aquatic Island ($0.29 each). I recall someone else had these once. QUESTIONS: What are these eggs from? Should I be worried, and/or do anything about them? I have a Nass...

Okay. I'm not an expert but I suspect these two are doing the dance. They have been like this for the last 24 hours. Moving around the tank at the same time still attached. At first I thought it was just them crawling over each other. So I moved them and they within seconds attached...

Okay. I've had cyno in the tank before and usually scrubs right off the rocks when I do a clean up. BUT.. This time it's not like the normal soft type cyno I've seen in my tank. This stuff does not scrub off. It's hard like coraline and doesn't really scratch the surface even. Do I have...

Got a strange one here. At first I thought it was a snail in the sand. Then it actually came out (Different angles constantly) and just kept growing until some minor feathers (white) popped out. First it was around sand then it was just thin air. What the heck is this? It was a PAIN to get...

Okay. I've an older bulb running that covers pretty much most the tank. During the day it's not very noticable. But at night after the primary lights go out it's very nice. Question: How long can I leave on? IE: Should I kill them at night or should they stay on 24x7? I've been turning...

Anyone try this out? I've a Mag 7 return from the sump and it's about 450 gph return. I've 5/8" tubing for the final tank leg today. Don't know how to cap this. I can drill holes no problem but I'm trying to push water DOWN on the back wall of the tank to stir up water around the LR I've...

Okay. LFS was basically selling off everything. (Too bad the discount was not that great). Anyways. As part of taking down one of the display tanks I managed to pickup a 5lb LR with a very large yellow sponge attached. I recall reading something about this in the past but didn't know...

OK. Strange question. Here is the problem. I feed my anemone every couple days a syringe of thawed mysis shrimp. Immediately upon doing that both shrimp and even the occasional hermit crabs come out of nowhere and start stealing the food away from the anemone. Even when he clamps down on...

All- I'm looking to shutdown my Skilter Filter 400gph and relocation to another 10 gal FW tank. My question is what's need to properly cutover to FW? I suspect a serious cleaning with new filter pads as well. Second question: Is this going to drive my FW fish nuts? I've a bunch of baby...

I've looked around and I "think" the right answer is about 4-6 weeks but I wanted to run this by everyone. I'm not looking for AWESOME looking rock covered in cor. but just having the bacteria in place doing the work. I took 5lb LR and put into my 10gal SUMP. Added another 5lb of Dead Rock...

Anyone know if any of our sponsors are located in the Mclean VA / Washington DC area? I'm headed there for 2 weeks and wanted to check out some of them. Beyond that I'm up for any local get togethers as well awesome and cool pet stores/fish locations that are a MUST SEE event for Salt Water...

Just thought I'd get some input before I tried such an event. I've a 10 gal Sump where everything is parked: Fluval, Skilter Filter, Heater, LR and Mag 7 return. I want to put a light on a timer on the sump, but was not sure if I should put some critters in the sump to clean up the tank...

I'm stuck on this one. I either got TWO Banded Trochus Snails or TWO Tropical Abalones with my last order. Actually I got THREE. This little dude in the PIX was a hitch hiker on a turbo. Is it ok they hang out on Snails? The other two larger ones are still getting free rides on the...

This combo enough for a standard 55 gal with sparce FOWLR arrangement? Shallow sand bed in progress of replacing UGF now. Nice White sand. Question is should I supplement with another light source? I'm thinking about adding something to my 10gal sump after hours. Am .25 Rite 0 Rate 20-40 PH...

Looking for a general rule of thumb. I've a green bulb tipped anemone (small 2" about) and trying to figure out how much he will actually eat. I generally don't like to pollute the tank with excess food, but he got hurt (powerhead incident) and seems to be rebounding very well now. I'm...