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If you want a truly great look on the back of your tank you can spray paint it with that textured paint that people use to get a marble look. They sell it at Walmart even. It can get expensive to do a large surface, but because of its nature and the way it dries you can just put on a couple...

A friend of mine wants to add a fire shrimp to his tank that has a coral banded shrimp in it already. I told him it probably wouldn't be a great idea from my experience, but another person told him they should be fine. Anyone have any input or personal experiences with this? Thanks for your...

Geocities doesn't allow linking from other sites Brandon, so you'll want to just post the address where the picture is so people can go look Barbie

Our Olympus camera takes awesome pictures and the price is down to $300 dollars give or take some. Barbie

One of the lfs here had a dyed gonipora, like thats not adding insult to injury. Barbie

You might also consider clown gobies and firefish for your color in the tank. They aren't as aggressive and have a much smaller body mass to lessen the bioload on the tank. The clown gobies are adorable, they like to perch on mushrooms and will stake out an individual that is their personal...

Just an idea here, but in all actuality their computer might just have a cruddy video card or monitor, which would make it easy for them to overdo the colors in trying to get them to look the way they do in their tank. I've had quite a bit of experience with receiving pictures that are really...

Do your snails tend to lay their eggs near a powerhead or current source? FWIW With FW snails 6 days would be plenty long for them to hatch out and spread through the tank. You haven't seen any new little ones pop up anywhere? It might be that we just aren't able to provide a needed step in...

When I worked at the lfs and was dripping kalk in 4 different systems I would just tie a knot in the airline to slow the flow to a steady drip. I used silicone tubing so that it wouldn't kink clear down and stop the flow completely. HTH Barbie

Thank you Hammer and Nathan The fish haven't spotted them yet I guess. They survived the night. It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to hatch, or if they even will. I appreciate the help Barbie

hehe chip, I'm thinking my best course of action would be to ignore the whole "spawning trigger" subject with you Barbie

I'm in Anchorage and my tank temp stays rock solid at 80 degrees, so I'm pretty sure that isn't the trigger here, but I'm glad to hear they at least feel happy enough in there that they wanna reproduce Barbie

Thanks Mushroom Boy So far the cleaner shrimp that just molted is the only thing thats been even close to them. Mostly because they were laid outside "his" cave probably. Barbie

Thank you David The tank is relatively new and I was just curious to see if anyone knew which type laid them in that pattern. I have some baby astrea snails in the tank that I assumed hitchhiked in on the live rock. My cleaner shrimp are carrying around eggs, the neon gobies have been seen...

The egg strand is a little over 2 inches long. Sorry for the reflections on the glass, I wanted to get pics before something had them for lunch just in case I have 4 types of snails, and one stomatella, if that helps the identification any Barbie