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So you guys think it is more of a bacteria than algae. My tank is set up for 4 months now. ..hmm. Always something new. I have some turbo snails, and other 2 kinds of snail. In total around 10 snails. I have some hermit crabs, approx. 15, but the ones in my refugium have exited their...

Hello, I have a problem with some sort of brown/red algae. It is on my subtrate, kind of like a carpet. I can stir the subtrate up and it kind off cleans it up, but if I don't stir it up it gets harder and stickier. It also disappears at night under the moon lights. The subtrate turns to...

It is a tank raised clown, and I have 2 of them, only one is changing color. Both are young(small). A bit smaller than 1 inch.

The light turned off and I can see my clown fish had this very dark brown 1/2 inch spot around his top fin. I checked all the parameters and all seems fine. Is it normal for clawn to develop such a color change?

I am jsut curious if there is any tricks of trade if you will. FOr example install it closer to the faucet rather than closer to the contaiener. Or install it 12" higher than top of the water container. Things like that.

That is pretty interesting. I myself have 2 heaters at 50W, light on for 12hours, and my temperature get up to 82.4F, then at night it drops to about 80F. I do have an open top, try opening it up.

For my B-day I got a Captive Purity RO/DI unit with the TDS monitor, and Spectra Pure auto shut of for reservoir fill up. I am planning to set it up this weekend, any suggestions/recommendations for setting up RO/DI? IT is even worth to set it up?

Thanks guys for the info. Should I be fishing out the old shell?

Hello, 2 days ago I put in 2 cleaner shrimps in my nano tank. One was fairly big approx 1.2", and the other smaller at about 0.9". This morning I look in the aquarium and I see an extra shrimp it is clear but as big as the big shrimp that I have. It pretty much scared the crap out of me...

Thank you for the heads up. At first I had 2 clowns, and one of them stopped eating. It would get skinnier and skinnier. I pretty much figured out that it will died. I did not wanted to leave just one of them alone. The store had a special 2 for one that is why I ended up at first with 4...

Hello, just trying to figure out how much food to feed my fish. I have 3 clowns and one blenny. I don't want to overfeed but I don't want to starve them either. Out of 4 clowns 1 has stopped eating for about 5 days and now I can not find it in the aquarium. In any case now I feed them...

Ok, you just scared the c**p out of me. I would never though that something so small could be so toxic. In my very limited experience it really looked like a tiny jelly. LIke I said though I am new to this. I had my hand in there installing things, and all. I will definitely invest is some...

Is it possible to have tiny jelly fish/octopus in a 20G nano aquarium. The reason why I am asking is because when I was scraping algae off the glass I saw a 2mm round transparent/little whitish thing with 5 legs all around. It kind of looked like a very, very tiny jelly fish or even a tiny...

Yesterday I was doing a bit of a maintenance on my aquarium and was shocked to see hundreds, if not thousands of this little tiny whilte things in my aquarium and refugium on the glass. I freaked out a bit at the beginning but I think these are the copepods. Since these have appeared it is...

Holy crap, you guys are amazing. I though I checked all the big sites form this thing, jsut when I though I will need to strat doing some sort of DIY you come up with this. Amazing. Thank you very much.