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I have had this fantastic lime green snowflake polyp colony for around 6 months or so. He’s been happy, though smaller than when he started, which I attributed to constantly being brushed by shrimp and crabs. On Sunday, I did a tank clean, and stirred up a lot of gravel, trying to get rid of...

Hi All, My Royal Gramma has disappeared. Now, I know Grammas have sometimes been known to hide, for weeks, in the rocks. But, I had him for 2 months and he was out, active, eating like a Hoover. Then, poof! gone. (ok, he had been battling ich, so let's not say he was totally healthy) He is not...

hi guys. recently these bluish hairs have been hanging from and on and through my big batch of halimeda macro. I've read about Halimeda creating spores that can cause problems in the tank, but so far this hairy stuff is just on the macroalgae. I don't know if this is something related to the...

ok, so all of a sudden my gorgeous tree coral is closed up and unhappy. i took a closer look, and saw all these red guys on its base. I have not seen them before, and it's like they appeared overnight. Poking around the web, they appear to be vermetid snails. I hear they can reproduce quickly...

here's another i.d. site (you have to click on the pictures to get to each category, took me a second to figure that out). not a bad one... http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html

can you tell i have the day off of work? while i've noticed wacky critters in my nano, i haven't investigated. now that i'm starting to, i'm addicted! so here are two things. first, this crazy worm, with coloration like a snake (alternating brown/gray stripes) that has been hanging in this...

don't think there's much in this pic to identify with, but perhaps I'm more excited to find this guy and post him. out of nowhere a couple weeks ago, i look in the tank in the morning moon lights and wham! there's an honest-to-goodness starfish! I have tons of brittle stars, but I felt like I...

so if you look in front of the snail in this picture you'll see a slug-looking critter. he just showed up the other day, and of course i was super-excited, but had no clue what it was. I think it might be a limpet? what i could see of his head looked snail-like with antennae, and he moved like...

hey kids, shame on me for being absent and only coming back when i have a problem, but time flies when the reef tank is happy! two weeks ago i added a royal gramma, and he was one happy kid, eating everything like a Hoover. Still have an orangespot goby and a boring pajama cardinal. i noticed...

ugh. in the last two weeks i lost a shrimp and two hermy crabs. No big whoop on the crabs, i know red-legged don't live long. The shrimp? No clue. The other two were fine, but darker in color. They molt regularly. No, I don't test for Iodine because it's too darn expensive and without the test...

Got a lovely Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse two days ago. At least, he was lovely when i saw him in the store tank; I haven't seen him since! I know they hide for a while when they're new, that's not what worries me. I'm just not sure how to check if he's getting any food? it's hard to get frozen food...

my Kenya tree coral is growing so well he’s outgrowing the base he came on and his "feet" are starting to overlap its sides. Should I find a place to put him that he can spread parallel to his base? Do I have to worry about him flopping over? I’m wondering if I should move him lower in the tank...

ack! my beautiful blue xenia is all closed up and shrunken! actually, a small part of it is fine, but the rest closed today. it's been fine since i got it 2 months ago, and actually growing. i did a water change this morning, only a gallon or so, and re-added reef plus and some calcium. when i...

ok i'm in a panic because i've heard aiptasia is a nightmare. I just noticed last night my glass covered with white specks. I'm guessing the worst. I know peppermint shrimp eat them when small, but they can't climb up the glass, right? so what do i do with the ones on the glass so they don't...

i've got 12 red-legged hermies and 12 blue-legged. how quickly will these crabs outgrow their shells? because i'm having a dog of a time finding empty shells to toss in there; all i can seem to find in stores or online are regular pet hermit crab shells, which are huge (for the hermies kids keep...

just got a nice zooanthid colony today and on the bottom of the rock is a long spaghetti worm tube. he's already nice and active, and is nifty, but i'm not sure if i should put the colony lower in the tank so he's closer to the sand and he can sift and eat crab and snail poop? i also wonder if...

Howdy! I don't have any fish in my reef yet, and so thankfully, no illness, but like to be prepared. Are there any medicines that are safe with inverts and coral? I know antibiotics are bad news and you have to be careful with copper (and I've got a 65g freshwater planted tank that I'm used to...

29 biocube up for about 3 weeks, live rock for 2. levels are good. i've had some purple stuff sprouting from the rocks and all kinds of different wormy things. i am now getting diatomaceious algae. i thought i read somewhere that the algae will go thru cycles, brown, then green, then the good...