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trido, can u post a link to the type of back up power supply u have?

Can a copperbanded butterfly be happy in a 30 gallon. I need something to eat aptaisia. I dont want any disappearing berghia or berghia puree from a MJ mod .I would get a very small CBB about the size of a si;ver dollar. hat y guys think?

When I lived in hawaii, I always seen them among the branches of porites compressata. Len, I think oyur explanation makes the most sense of why we are putting them on sand bottoms.

Anyone know where to buy Ocean runner pump parts? I need the black rubber bushing that stabalizes the ceramic shaft for an OR3700 or OR3500 Happy Holidays!!

I know most people will recommend putting fungia plate coral on a sand substrate but I have seen them in the wild and they are never on a sand bottom but just wedged in between other corals. Why do they do better on sand bottoms?

Should the polyps be extending more? What conditions are ideal? Lights , flow? A friend gave me this frag and he called it chilli pepper coral.

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Hydno, I have the same kind, It was sold to me a s a "bushy hydno" It was about the size of yours is and now after 3 months it has doubled in size and is a big Bush. I have fragged it easily and it also fragged itself. I found a small polyp in the sand. I can also see what I believe to be...

Yes, Do what dave said or they will smother everything.

Thanks David, I did as u suggested, siphoned them out in the morning. I can find one or 2 if i look very hard now.

The problem with just letting it run its course is that it can just come and go or it can run its coarse into the gills and then the fish will soon die. The mandarin came from the store with ick.

I have a mandarin that has ICk. Can someone recommend a safe treatment in quarantine for mandarins>? i heard copper will kill mandarins. TIA

Is a reactor really necessary. This whole idea of forcing the water thru the substrate makes no sense to me. Any area with some decent flow should be fine. The water will come in contact with the center of the media regardless of flow. Take DSB for example, the water at the surface of the...

Imwas hopin that someone has a solution for cleaning the ice cap refectors to eliminate corrosion from salt spray. I was wondering if i could use rubing alcohol. Or would that ruin the shine?

Thank you for your time David. Why is natural predators a bad idea?