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I don't know, it sounds like everything is good on your end. Maybe do your own test on the stores water. What is their salinity, pH etc.... if the store is out of whack and even if you acclimate the shrimp it could still shock it. I am curious to know...

You still have ammonia in your tank? What is living in there that would be rotting to produce ammonia? The nitrate/nitrite depends again on what's in there, too much flake food decomposing or fish waste could produce the NO problems. If you have fish it'll be something you have to live with...

Yup, I was reading on RC a few articles and I found out I'm right in the nominal range. So I'm pleased. Now to just get my tank looking clean!

I just did a test using a Salfert kit for KH/AK and both are high. I'm reading 9.7/3.5. What, exactly, does this mean? I know I can get it back to seawater/nominal range but what or how does this affect the system as a whole? Going to RC to read up on it now. Thanks

New photo's of everything in my tank: First the aporia (SP?) it has 12 'fingers': Now the Green Open Brain that came back from the dead: My hairy shrooms that are thriving: Orange Zooanthids (Conn, I'll frag off the upper left hand portion for you, there are 6 to 7 pods...

I got this piece of rock with two plants on it and I need help IDing it. Please let me know if it's beneficial or not. I do plan on putting this into a fuge at one point nad the green one is growing fast: Thanks!

I think I've got 15-20 crabs but only 7 or so snails. I guess I need more snails and sandsifting critters. Maybe some blue-legged crabs to help clean up as well. I had and still have a few bad 'pods that I was trying to rid myself of prior to putting things in my tank. but I think it's...

I'll try to get some new photo's up shortly. Frogspawn is dead and gone. Bummer. But everything else came back and is in the process of recovering. The one I'm most shocked about is the two rics. They live!!! I've also got problems with cruddy sand and brown hard algea on my acrylic...

Holy crap that's cheap. I'll double check the prices when I go in today, usually they have decent prices on most of their inverts. Maybe I read the sign wrong or they were something else. Nate is a manager at the LFS and he usually sets me up with special 'deals' so we'll see what I can't...

Blue legged hermits at my store go for $6ea x 25 = 150 on crabs!!!! I may have to figure this one out, but my sand is getting grungy so I do need to fix this asap! Scarletts are cheaper but they also seem to be bigger. What eats brown algea? It's tough and it's on my acrylic. I'd need...

Ok, for whatever reason I can't respond to the thread where t his was being talked about so I just started a new one. What is the rule of thumb for # of crabs/snails in your tank? So far I've heard 1 per gallon for crabs. I've got 15+/- in a 40 gal w/ 55lbs LR. I thought that was too many...

The ric is purple and orange, very pretty and it split and then got sick in Nate's tank. It was the one piece I really wanted but I was lazy and never took it and in the meantime he got lazy about his tank and just let it go. Doh! I hope it recovers. I'll have to move the frogspawn as...

Yeah, it is expoixed in place, but that doesn't mean I can't move it. I probably will tonight, a little higher up and tilted different so the majority can 'see' the light. Amen brother! I'm headed to the Aquatic Wareshouse tonight. Nate went and bought 10g worth of fish (mostly) and corals...

That's cool. Didn't get home tonight before the main light went out, only the atinic is still on. Although in looking where iplaced one coral about half of it isn't exposed to the light meaning it'll die off, but the other half is growing so I guess that's good. Sucks to watch 1/2 die while...

I lost my emerald crab while he was motling. In the process of backing his ass out of his old exoskeleton something got to it and killed it. I blame the evil bugs but who knows. I was pretty bummed. Now i've got 15 hermits in my tank and I think that's way too many but they came from a...

I said 'squishy' things as shrooms aren't corals, right? Anyway, yeah I'm a bit of a newbie to reef tanks so bear with me. I need to go get a book on corals and what not. I thought there was more to it than that. A hammer and chisel I've got. Although the rock with the zoa's is pretty...

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Basically...how do you do it? Anyone have writeups? I know you need to remove a coral/squishy thing from one piece of rock to another, but how are they attached? Specifically I'd need to know about zoa's and shrooms. What kind of glue to use?

I noticed that last night as well. I was posting around 11pm westcoast and it was all jacked. But...my posts made it and are still there.

I've also been toying around with the manuel mode of my Canon S400. It makes a huge difference in the blue/green colors. I really need a damn tripod to keep the camera steady, I may have to pick one up shortly. I got everything placed the other night so I"ll have to take another full tank...