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My crab looks sort of like it's loosing it's color. Is this normal before it molts? I added it amidst a HA problem which seems under control with getting params in check. Anyway naked eye it looks like its green is fading but the pics show a different picture. It's either in poor health or some...

Are these snails crashing my tank or are they getting it on in some sort of snail tower of pleasure? That's 2 Astraeas on top of a turbo http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/dzipin/dae7a070.mp4 http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/dzipin/50c1d365.mp4...

I picked up an Aqua-Controller Jr with an extra bar. I was hoping to be able to fully expand from my RKII with only 8 switched outlets to the full 16 with the ACJr but research is suggesting that I’m limited to a total of 12 controlled/switched outlets. I guess I can live with that depending...

Anyone have a guess what these might be? They look like eggs but at the moment I don’t have any pairs in my tank. The area above the pile has a RBTA that recently split. There is a large GSMC that hosts in the nem and she constantly wags her tail as if she’s nesting but like I said, she’s...

I got this last week. It came from a 50g nano under a single 250 MH Its in a 90 w/ a coralife twin 150 HQI fixture. I've had it for 10 days. After about 5-6 it looked like this I believe the culprit is/was my Singapore Angel. She'd always left LPS alone -just zoas and palys. Well I guess...

As much as it pains me I think I have to offer up a 2.5" Singapore Angel. A really pretty fish but it is not behaved around zoas and palys. Never bothers hammer or leathers. Never goes near SPS. Zoas are a different story and now it seems to be harassing a nano elegance I picked up. So there's...

Well, the dreaded hair algae has popped up. Fought I'd see if anyone has suggestions to offer. I amped up PWCs (making a new batch of SW now) and dropped feelings to every other day. As for the particulars. I tested today: Phosphate 0.01 (Hanna meter) Alk 7.17 dkh Mg 1400 Ca 400 pH 8.3 sg 1.026...

I picked up 2 Banggii Cardinals from a reffer (not LFS) but he's a dealer more or less (orders livestock and re-sells). I used my smaller 10g QT setup as they were small and don't move much. Same setup I've used for every fish in my system just about (well I've varied the tank size) did regular...

Took the kids for a preview event given for members last night. They rehabbed the 3rd floor and opened it for kids. A lot of neat stuff (some of it noisy) for kids - interactive and such. They also had some tanks viable at a lower lever - easier for little kids to see in. And the best part...

Gauging interest in a LARGE GSMC. She's beautiful and very friendly. Maybe too friendly for me - she tries to get intimate every time I put my hands in my tank. She gets along with anything EXCEPT any other clowns. But make no mistake... It's HER tank. She's about 4" she took about 20 minutes to...

I have several of these small white (tan-ish) snails and I'm trying to ID them as Pyramidellids or Rissoids. I broke out the microscope and tried to take some pics as an article suggested that Pyramidellids (the evildoer of the 2) has heterostrophic shell coiling, they apparently have no...

Well, it was just a matter of time right? It was inevitable…, but for $160. What do I do with the DIY stuff I've started to accumulate? Well, they're not CREEs so quality control is probably a crapshoot and PAR could vary widely from one unit to the next but still, $160 This is a HARD decision...

Anyone have thought on whether or not this would work to test water. The scale goes to 9.0. I'm sick of probes lasting no time and for $12 at HD thought I'd get some opinions

I set up a BRS reactor to try bio pellets. I'm using a "bio pellet" insert (thanks downbeach) and the reactor is fed by a MJ-1200. I know to expect the pellets to behave oddly until they are colonized but it seems that the reactor is spreading the flow oddly. If you can see this video I was...

My plumbing has developed a slow leak at the drain bulkhead. Seems to be coming through the threads as opposed to around the flange nut. I'm not sure that means anything but I was able to slow it from 2 drips a minute to 1 drip every 3 minutes or so with some plumbers putty on/around the...

I was messing with some of the mechanicals this weekend and I guess I dislodged something with my drain-line bulkhead because it is now drip-drip-dripping – so far the drip is running down the drain-line and into the sump so I’m hoping no harm/no foul and since I have seen a fair amount of salt...

I'm looking to buy a Mag 9 or 12 (B - with the stainless hardware) to run a skimmer I borrowed to "try" it on my system. The skimmer's an aqua c 180 so I could also use an otherwsie adequate pump for that skimmer - which will be in sump

Does anyone recognize this. Looks a little like a majestic juvi but this has a yellow tail and from what I found they have opaque tails.

...one of these RBTA steering wheel covers What do you guys think?

Any special requirements to QT a wrasse. Should I be trying use pod condos or anything else out of the ordinary?