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Lobsters are a predator in nature and they can do the same thing in your tank. If you keep them well fed chances are they will not go after anything else, but they can. Other inverts and smaller bottow dwelling fish can become food to them. I have heard they like to rearrange your aqua scaping...
Coco worms are much more attractive but also much harder to keep. They generally get much bigger and need very very good water quality. Feather dusters are much easier to keep and are more forgiving with water conditions. We have kept feather dusters for years and have yet to make the jump to...
I have not moved away from the 50/50 bulbs that I have in the 12g. I have gotten great growth and color out of my zoos and LPS. I am not saying that playing with the bulbs will get you better growth, just have never tried it so I don't want to comment either way.
Thank you, I have been doing the same. So far I have discovered two nusince anenomes which have necessitated a reduction in the rubble- if only the bumble bees thougth thoes looked tasty. In the event I find any positive hitchikers back there, I'll keep you informed.
Had a wonderful experience today going up to AO. They picked up a beautiful flameback angel for us, that is doing great in our tank. I also just had to pickup some of the beautiful zoos that they had, which also all opened up in our tank when we brought them home. It was also nice to see Bill...
We read Coral magazine when it comes out every other month. We have found the following books very helpfull:
The Conscientious Marine Aquarist by Bob Fenner (Basically the bible of salt water fish)
The Marine Fish Health and Feeding Handbook
The Nano-Reef Handbook by Brightwell
The Complete...
I guess I added the live rock rubble to make sure I had proper feng shui in the back. ;) Your point makes sense and I will have to closely monitor that situation. BTW, our bumblee snails finally showed their dark side when they demolished one of my feather dusters. They never went after anything...
So we have had the BTA in the tank roughly 2 weeks. It has settled into a nice piece of live rock with a big whole in it so it is very secure. We started noticing that it was looking a little funny and then we came home to this.
We are pretty excited.
They will move around to a spot of their liking. I would try and place him on a rock and go from there. They like flow, but not heavy which will cause them to move.
You may want to check this out:
http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=176&t=989
Any dragonet is extremely hard to breed, they just put an exhibit down in the Smithsonian centered around breeding mandarins. That whole board has a lot on breedin mandarins led by Matt Wittenrich who...
We have a 4x24 T5 setup on our 20 gallon and we keep zoas and all different types of LPS in there. They are all doing fine with that light and the tank is a 20G tall. You might might might be able to keep some SPS in there if you have them high enough in the tank. If you are just looking for...