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I don't think that they are harmful to anything. I would just leave them.

Peanut worm. Yeah, seriously. If you had a picture that would be best or you can go to this site and look at lots of nasty looking worms and see if you can see yours... http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html

Well, the main bacteria in the tank takes care of ammonia and nitrites, not nitrates. Besides, the water does not contain these bacteria so essentially you could do a 100% water change and not have a cycle as long as your tank was established. Unless you have a large DSB, the only way to...

Pod. There are several different kinds but they are good and make great snacks for the fish. I have hundreds in my tank running all over the place, but I don't have any fish to eat them either. I like watching them because they are cool, almost like they are playing the way they run around after...

Possible a hitchhike in the tank that is killing the fish and lives under that rock? A mantis shrimp perhaps.

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1. IMO, you should place the heater back there, a skimmer if you are going to skim, a piece of filter sponge with filter floss on top of that (replace the floss every few days and clean the sponge out just as often), and maybe some chaeto. I am of the school of thinking that the small amount of...

You may need a permit to do it legally. I guess you run about the same risk of introducing bad things in to your tank as buying your LR from someplace like Tampa Bay Saltwater.

Wow...I would have kept it and dried it out to use as base rock in the future. But at least you have another better source of rock so you can get back on track.

Do you ever see any thing coming out of the end ot the thing in #4? It could be a worm tube of some sort or even a vermitid snail.

Just remember, even though the ammonia cycle is over, your tank will continue to cycle for MONTHS. It will be safe for live stock but there are still going to be lots of changes going on while the tank matures and stabilizes. You will probably end up with several types of algae and probably all...

Time and patience. I would not paint the rock. You may find that the paint will not be toxic to the fish but I doubt it would hold up long under SW conditions. Then you will have paint peeling and flaking off in to the water and the fish/corals may eat it and that would be bad. In time if your...

lol...you should see it now. He has lots of hair algae on his back. The rest is gone from the tank but it is still hanging on to the snail for some reason. Pretty neat actually. Maybe I'll try to get a shot of it.

Very good. Yeah, sometimes the cycle process is not a pleasant one as you are seeing first hand but in the end it will be worth it. Just keep up with the research and ask questions when in doubt and whatever you do, don't get in to a hurry in this hobby.

Yeah, don't waste the money. The tank WILL cycle on its own with just the LR. There is no need to kick start it or speed it up.

As far as coral, there are several including zoas and mushrooms and leathers. Keep in mind though that even though these might survive under low light, they won't give you the full beauty you would get under good lights. So what size tank do you have and what is the wattage of the lights? That...

Yes, you can. What causes the cycle is the die off from the rock. There is bacteria and lots of things in the rock like worms and pods and other various critters. When the rock comes out of the water the stuff in the rock dies to varying degrees depending on how long it is out of the water. So...

Well, that is true and not true. If you are starting a new tank and have all the rock you are going to add to the tank then add it all at once. That way you have one cycle and when it is done it is done. But if you have to start slow because of money or whatever, then you add what rock you have...

First of all, you should not cycle a tank with fish. It is harmful and cruel to the fish. Second, damsels are aggressive fish so you may end up being stuck with just those two fish. They are also very hard to catch. If you only have 1 live rock then you are going to need to get more. You need to...

As far as the screw in light, I think that you are going to be greatly limited with that light. I have 96 watts over my 10g and that I have found is not enough. I am hoping to change over soon to my new tank which is a 26g and I plan on using 4 T5 bulbs over that tank which should rock. This...