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My tank is overrun with caulerpa, which I know is bad stuff because it can go sexual (crash) and really screw up your water params. I've been trying to pull the stuff out in handfuls, but it's slow going. It has very tightly embedded itself through my rocks. Well, just yesterday it went nutso...

I know this is sort of off topic, as it is freshwater, not marine, but... I have always loved/wanted a puffer, but my marine tanks are not suited for puffers, so no go. Just this past week, however, I "discovered" freshwater dwarf puffers, which grow to about 1 inch in length. They are so...

Hi, Guys All you techie folks out there, can you explain to me... I had an AquaClear 50 on a 15 gallon tank. It's been fine for a long time -- I needed a strong flow -- but now due to new tank inhabitants, the flow is too high. So, I took out the impeller of the 50 and replaced it with the...

I just peaked in on my reef this morning and saw a pretty gross sight (at least it was gross to me!). One of my precious little mini brittle stars is stuck inside the mouth of a ricordea mushroom. The star's disc and presumably a few of its legs are inside the mouth, two legs are sticking out of...

Hi, Gang Can anyone ID this strange white "algae" looking stuff in my tank? It's on this plant, as well as on a small patch of sand. Thanks!!

Check out the Mesoscope here: http://www.ogles.info/default.aspx This little baby is awesome. It's basically a microscope that you can attach to the side of your reef tank and look at your fish/rocks/inverts/corals, etc... with great magnification and see things you have never seen before...

I started getting little tiny green flatworm looking things on my glass and sand. I siphoned out all I could find, but guess what? They are back in droves! Even worst than before. Any advise? Is there anything that eats these little buggers?

Incysor, if I remember correctly, you have a blue stripe pipefish in your reef tank. I have one in my SH tank, but I have been wondering if I should move my blue stripe to my reef tank. My reef tank has a very healthy population of copepods and amphipods (while my SH tank doesn't), and it...

Well, now that my algae bloom is over and gone, and my reef tank is looking crystal clear and gorgeous, and all of my fish and corals have found their "happy places," I now have these weird little green rectangles with "mouths" on my glass. I'm pretty sure they are flatworms. I did a...

I recently came across a really cool reef website, and found this page in particular that is very cool. This guy made a "diner" for his Mandarin fish, because she wasn't getting enough food to eat, due to competition in the tank. There's also a video link at the bottom of the page that should...

I'm interested in getting one, and I have a local marine livestock distributor who said he can get me one (for big bucks, of course!). They are very hard to come by. Anyway, they get about 10" long and are the diameter of a pen, and they are not aggressive and are easy to feed. They are not...

One of my Pom Pom Crabs is carrying a rather large, bright orange ball under its body. I assume that it is breeding?? The other two Pom Poms do not have this large orange ball on them. I'll have to do some reading on Pom Pom Crab reproduction.

Look at the Featured Tank of the Month at the forum on Reefkeeping.com. This guy's setup is a reef keeper's dream come true! Absolutely amazing!!! Take a look, and no drooling! http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-11/totm/index.php

A seahorse forum that I frequent regularly got hacked the other night. Almost all of the posts and topics are wiped out. :( The admins are trying to recover it, but I don't know if they'll be able to. It's very sad. So much knowledge sharing might be gone... :( I hope they are able to...

I kind of have this thing for eels, but I don't think I'm equipped to deal with one that gets large and/or aggressive. But then I heard (here) and read about Golden Dwarf Moray Eels, which are small (no longer than 10") and not aggressive. Has anyone ever had one of these? I imagine they...

At night, throw in some frozen mysis shrimp and watch your Nassarius snails pop up out of the sand bed like zombies as soon as it hits the bottom. They'll all head straight for the shrimp like little zombies in the night. Kind of eery...

I know the dangers of impulse buying, but I just couldn't help myself. Last night, I was visiting an LFS about an hour away from my house and found a junvenile seahorse in their store. They had no idea what species it is, or whether CB or WC (I'm assuming WC). She came in with four others, who...

I know this is child's stuff to you all who are mechanically gifted (which I am not!). Anyway, I needed a HOB filter with a very very slow flow rate (so dwarf seahorse fry don't get sucked into Never Never Land), but all of the ones I tried were too strong for what I needed. So, I read that you...

I was lucky enough this weekend to pick up a mated pair of African Blue Stripe Pipefish. They are about 2" long (they only get about 2-3" inches long). This is a smaller species of pipefish. I have them in a dedicated 10 g. small reef with one tiny blue leg hermit and several Narssisius (SP?)...

I keep hearing pistol shrimp sounds coming from both my marine tanks. I did have a pistol in one tank, but I removed it and took it back to the shop. But I am still hearing the sound, in both of my tanks. Is there anything else that makes that kind of sound? Maybe I'm just losing my mind, but I...