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Have you guys seen/heard of these? They are called Azoo Palm Filters. They're tiny little HOB filters with a small compartment for mech/bio/chem filtration. They are designed for really small tanks that need only gentle filtration. I'm going to try one for my pipfish tank... everything else...

I have a rock with 4 ricordea shrooms on it, and three teeny feather dusters. There is also a mystery creature inside this rock. Whatever it is, it extends numerous 2" long pink translucent arms/tentacles/snakes... something like that... out of the rock through a small hole. The tentacles are...

I bought a lovely coral from my LFS out of their Nano display cube, and they told me it was Clove Polyp. But when I got it home and installed in my tank, I looked at it and didn't think it was Clove Polyp at all. So I did some looking and found it: Organ Pipe Coral. It looks exactly like...

I'm not sure that the water flow/circulation in my 15 g. tank is what it should be. I have an AquaClear 50 (formerly the 200) hanging on the back. This filter is rated for a 20-50 gallon tank. I have a 15 g. tank. The filter is hanging on the back, in the center of the tank, so the strongest...

Three teeny tiny Pom Pom Crabs. My LFS was able to get some in. They are so cute and so little. I saw them tonight. And they have anenomes in their claws!! I am setting them up in their own 10g. nanoreef that I have cycled and held for them, with LS, a few LR, and soft corals. I'll add a couple...

I got my first marine reef tank injury tonight... at the LFS. I was digging around in a tank of LR small pieces and got nailed big time by a bristleworm. I ended up with half a dozen bristles stuck in my finger and beneath my fingernail -- can you say OUCH!!! Hurt like the dickens. I had to use...

My cleaner shrimp is definitely trying to set up a cleaning station, near the area where my clowns hang out. But the clows are ignoring him. They are captive bred clowns. Does that mean they don't know that the cleaner shrimp just wants to clean them?

Wish me luck! Here's a photograph of my wonderful Pulsing Xenia: (I hope this works...) http://www.aprilbarnswell.com/Pulsing-Xenia.jpg

I really really want a sand-sifting starfish, but my nanoreef tank is only 15 g. There's not enough open sand bed for him to roam in. So I was wondering if it would work if I set up a sand bed only tank (with a few rocks and maybe a couple soft corals) with a sand sifter star or two (?), and...

I just bought a Yellow Watchman Goby and a very young pistol shrimp. My LFS has a pair of them cohabitating (like Felix and Oscar) in one of the big display tanks. They are very entertaining to watch. I had wanted a Watchman, so I bought one, along with a very small red and white pistol...

I have a new pair of young Oscellaris in my 15g. reef tank. Day 2: they are doing well. I like to keep my tank uncovered. Are they likely to jump out? I know some reef fish jump a lot -- what about Oscellaris? Mine seem to stay in the middle to lower regions of my tank. I don't see them going...

I am in the process of researching the needs of a SHOWLR (seahorse only w/LR) tank and have been reading the forum at seahorse.org. They're scaring me to death over there because many of the young posters know nothing about the requirements for maintaining a marine environment. Some of them have...

I have a wonderful rock full of pulsing Xenia stalks (I just love those!). Tonight, one of the smaller stalks broke away from the rock and floated several inches away and landed on the LS substrate. I picked it up and put in on a quiet rock ledge, nearer to the lights, but away from the main...

I spotted two bristleworms in my tank last night!!! Where, oh where, did they come from? Are they gonna hurt my Xenia and Zoos and Polyps?? What do I do??? I know there are traps for them. My LFS has some.

Okay, it's time to Check With The Experts... My 15 g. nanoreef is stable with good water quality. I want to add fish now. I am planning to add either 2 or 3 juvenile Ocellaris. These will be the only fish in this tank. Is 3 too many? Would 2 be better, either in terms of tank size and/or fish...

I went to my LFS and picked up some empty shells for my blue-legged hermits, and guess what!! Another stowaway Micro Brittle Star!! That's two now in just a few days. They must have these Micros all throughout their livestock tanks. Now I have two of them! Woohoo! I think I'll go back and buy...

Sounds like they don't get very big and are good for nano tanks. They are peaceful and reef compatible. They come in yellow, green, and brown, at least. Here's a link to the yellow ones: http://ww.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_ ... pCatId=161

I got a baby (I mean teeny weeny) pin-head sized baby brittle star that came home with me from the LFS when I bought some empty hermit crab shells for my blue-leg hermits (the brittle must have been hiding in one of the shells). The baby brittle star was so small that I didn't see him again once...

I had a glass canopy on top of my 15g. AGA reef tank. It was getting dirty (salty) so I took it off, and wow what a difference that made. So much more light got into the tank and the polyps really got happy after that. Now I think I like having the canopy off. My PC light is on mounting legs...

When I pour in some fresh RO water, to top off my tank or to lower the SG, I see a strange effect when the fresh water is poured into the tank... the water looks strange... sort of oily looking as it mixes with/hits the tank water. Does anyone know what that is?