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I just added 3 mushrooms to my 10 gallon. They are the red kinds, nothing too fancy, and were runnign for about 3 bucks a piece at the LFS. I couldn't resist. What's the best care for these guys? They were not mounted so I ended up attaching them to pieces of rubble i had laying around...

I read somewhere on here, I can't remember the exact thread now, that you should remove the bio filter from an HOB filter, but I never saw the reason why this is so. Does it have to do with the fact that leaving the biofilter would cause the tank to re-cycle? (e.g. buildup of nitrites which need...

Hey everyone. Remember I posted how my xenia looked sad and pathetic and i thought it was dying? Guess what, I came home from school, and it had cut itself into TWO! I think it was reproducing or something, cause a tiny portion was hangnig out on the bottom of my tank yesterday. The "baby"...

I've had my xenia in my tank for about 4 days now. It was doing well, and I followed all the directions for the drip acclimation procedure. Today, I came home from school, and the xenia's main stems have seemed considerably shorter than they used to be. Furthermore, the little fingers have...

I just added two frags, the first residents of my tank :) :bounc: 1. Xenia 2. A baby acropora (1 inch tall) Anyone with experience caring for these dudes? What should I feed these guys and how often? Any other tips you can give me would be great too :) I have them placed on the top...

Can i pick your brains again for a second? Ok :) Question(s): What is a surface skimmer? What's the value of having one in a nano tank? Are HOB filters necessary? I am using a deep Sand bed and live rock for biological filtration, should I get an HOB? MoonLights. What are they...

Any thoughts on hatching brine shrimp right in the tank? It would be a good source of food, for the various critters in there right? Has anyone done this? P.S. I think my tank is ready to be stocked, Can anyone recommend some cheap, hardy species to get started? (cheap in case i bomb...

I just found this guy sneaking a peek out of one of the crevices in my rock today when i came home from school. I think it's some type of worm... it reminds me of those old radio antennas that you can extend, because as I was watching it, the bands in its body did not move, meaning the worm was...

Hey everyone. My snails have been doing a great job cleaning my liverock of algae... too good in fact that my sand bed is now littered with little snail poop pellets... lol. I know it's natural... but it's a bit unsightly. Know of any good detritus feeders that would feed on the poo? Sorry...

Hey everyone. I'm at three weeks since my set up, 1 week of liverock. Today i noticed this rusty reddish brown growth on my sand where there is little water movement. Is it slime algae? should i siphon it out, or let it be? I read somewhere that part of the cycle involves the growth slime...

Hey fellow reefers, looking to hook up wiht local reefers in the seattle area.

This tank is about 3 weeks old with the sand and water. 1 week old with live sand. I just added another 5 lbs of rock and did a little rescaping... mainly providing caves for my fish and shrimp when I add them :)

Hello guys and gals. It's been a few weeks since my tank has been up (3 weeks with the sand, a week with the LR). I seem to have quite an amount of fine, silty particles that have settled on my LR. I recently repositioned my powerheads and they became resuspended in the water column. Is it...

Are there any coralline algae that are blue? THere's a blue dot on one of my rocks... i've never seen it before...

umm... what is this? lol... the first living creature that you can see in my tank!! WEEEEE!!! I think it only comes out at night. I've never seen it in the daytime

My tank has been up for i would guess 1.5 weeks. The first week, I had the sand and water sit around and do its thang... I don't think the sand was alive anymore since I had to rinse it copiously to remove the fine dust in it, and in the interest of time and cost, i used freshwater (i just...

Hey everyone. I finally got my system set up!! Wooo! But today's question is what to do with my Chaeto that my friend gave me. He used to have it in his refugium, which I don't have, so I placed it directly in my tank. This is ok, right? (My tank is like a ghost town with the chaeto rolling...

Hey veteran reefers, i was wondering how long you guys mix and areate the saltwater before adding it to the tank? Also, a friend of mine gave me a bucket of very fine live sand from his old aquarium and told me to rinse it but wasn't exactly specific... do i rinse the sand until the water is...

Hey guys! I just went and got me a 2.5 minibow to finally get my nano started! Got lights and everything all I need now is some sand, rocks, and water haha. I was wondering if I could get your opinion on what kind of substrate to use. Fine sand, crushed coral, or reef substrate? (forgive me...

Hey everyone. I have a 1.6 gallon hexagonal tank i got from Walmart, and I was hoping of trying a saltwater set up. Is it possible to utilize its existing Undergravel filtration system or will i have to get a separate power filter. I'm hoping to grow some live rock in there maybe a little bit...