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that is a teeny tiny one! Sure does look like a chiton. oh and redfish - no apologize necessary. Cool manipulation of that photo. Glad we were able to solve the mystery together!

yep - nice picture! I haven't seen my cuke since friday. Plus I traded in some LR so it's possible I traded my cuke away too. oh well. My tank is not mature but I wanted to change a cuke since they are supposedly ideal sand cleaners.

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So...I am honestly not sure. I can say that context is important. I've never seen a limpet (at least the keyhole type) run or move away from me. They just lock down and say "just try and move me". And basically you can't without crushing it. On the other hand, a chiton will hustle fast into...

COngratulations! now if only you could figure out how to take pics AFTER wiping away the salt/water residue on the glas.... ;) ;) ;)

Well finally after wanting to go to stan's - I finally felt like my tank could actually support a coral. A lot of times expectations exceed the actual product - but in this case, that was totally not the case. A kid in a coral candy store is an apt description. Stan is fantastic. I learned a lot...

Second vote here for chiton...though it is hard to tell based on your pic. Chitons are extremely slow growing and they are usually found under the sandbed/LR. I've seen them come up at night on the glass or LR to eat. Great hitchhiking part of the cleanup crew.

it sounds like the acumulated proteins on the surface of your water are not breaking up via a skimmer or overflow. you need to consider adding another pump and aiming it at the surface to break it up. Or just do more frequent water changes targeting the surface.

i forgot to mention if you don't have the room and you need a pump in-sump - then you could use an mag12. With head loss it won't push the full 1200 gph your overflows can handle - but i'm not a fan of maximizing flow via the sump anyway. Just realize that I've found mags to generate some heat...

So the cuke i have via the group buy- spent all of one day on the sand and then disappeared on me....then suddenly reappeared last night...on top of my LR structure - like in the middle of the tank. What's up with that? The guy has been seemingly useless for my sandbed. On the other hand the...

if you have the room, a pressure rated pump like the tarpon would work - but it's BIG...you could probably use it as a manifold for other equipment. bax and jrwohler have 120s also - might check with them/their tale of the tank to see what they are running.

i'm not an expert on algae but i always thought the bubble stuff was metallic/green kinda. Anyways i agree with redfish. From my experience, i would just do a water change, then before dumping the old water out, take the LR out and then scrape the offending algae off. Use the old water to swish...

how big is the DT? Anytime you are adding a tang to a tank with two established tangs (or even one) - you are rolling the dice unless the DT is big. Impressed you caught the hippo out. Some ways to help minimize stress would be to totally re-aquascape everything so that no one has a "turf" to...

Never seen "liquid" come out of a anemone - though maybe it's just the way I'm envisioning it. Anemone's are relatively primitive creatures in that they have a single opening...it's used for both eating and pooping. What you are seeing is likely some residual stuff it's pushing out. I've never...

never saw that link before...something to read and see if we can update our board here with! the only thing i'm not sure about is the snowflake eel in a 30g...considering they grow to about 30". :) I guess a small one would work.

i know jobs are scarce and all - but seriously - can they not find a guy who knows to look for a box that says LIVE FISH all over it? I guess you can't find good help these days? but redfishbluefish - all I can say is that thank goodness I wasn't drinking anything- as when I read your post it...

ok phew - sometimes you never know - I recall one person had a "beautiful polyp" that turned out to be a majano type anemone. :P Personally I think jawfish are intelligent and fun to watch. That could serve as your "bottom" dwelling fish. However if you have friends (like me) who everytime...

well there's always the good ole' standby of setting up a fan in the cabinet blowing across the sump. The evap will be higher but it will help maintain the temp. Another idea is to utilize T5 lighting instead of MH. I'd suggest LEDs but these days who knows what's going on with that.

sorry to ask the obvious question but you're sure these so-called button polyps you have are not aiptasia right? or majanos?