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I got this red macro and wanted to put it in my fuge which has a small amount of calupra. What kind of red macro is this, and will it be ok in the fuge? Thanks Derek

I only have the two peppermints and now the one cleaners as well as hermits and snails. I just added my first fish today that was a red firefish. I havent heard any clicking or other signs that I have a mantis all my crabs and snails are still acounted for. Who knows maybe I am just cursed with...

Ok thanks for the advice. I dont here any clicking I had a pistol shrimp when I first started but got rid of him cuz he was pinching at snials when they came onto the rock. So maybe this just had a bad molt. Also from dealing with this previoulsy I know there is some parasite that attacks shrimp...

I do leave the molts in the tank. However the one that died last night was really wierd in the fact that he did not even completly molt I just saw the top part of the tail portion of th molt up on a rock then the dead cleaner below whose body was quickly scooped up by the peppermints and torn to...

Acclimation = 30 min floating the bag then 1 hour of a slow drip and removing part of the water as the bag gets to full. I do not think it is my acclimation because all the shrimp are fine, healthy and eating for at least a week or more until they molt :( As for a predator this is what I thought...

Here is my story i want to know if this has happened to anyone and what I should do. In Jan I for get the dates I added 2 cleaners and 2 peppermints. After each cleaner molted for the first time it died I only saw the boby of one and got it out of the tank for inspection. I could not see...

Yeah so far it looks great so I was just waiting to see what happens over the next few days and hopefully it will like its spot. I was just making sure I was in the ballpark for the amount of flow that would discribe med-low. Thanks for the help Derek

Here is my new frogspawn I got today. I took the pics with my video camera so they are not the best of quality( 1.5 mega pix) but here they are anyway. They were taken with only the actinics on or not on and with a flash or no flash.

As far as coral placement goes everything is refered to as low med or high flow but what exactly does this mean? Is low flow having the corals tenticals not moving at all and high flow next to a PH? I just got a new frogspawn (trying to post pics of it but so far I never been able to post on...

I noticed tonight after the lights went out that one of my peppermints is picking at my new bubble coral. Sometimes it jumps on it and then jumps back other it will sit on it for a few seconds with its claws and legs going like crazy. The bubble will shrink back sometimes and others not do...

I want to know what a good vareity of food is for the animals that I currently have. So far I have been feeding the tank once a week or once every other week. All that was in the tank was hermits , snails, 1 anemone crab, and 2 pepermint shrimp, a small patch of GSP, and a rock of zoos. Last...

I was wondering if anyone had switched brands of a two part Cal/Alk doseing agent. I ask becuase the stuff I dose I have only found at my LFS. It is called Calxmax pro series made by Warner Marine Research Inc. On the forums people said it was similar to the Kent 2 part additive. I was...

How long do you wait before feeding a new fish for the first time. Of course after it is aclimated but once it is first in the QT tank how long should I wait, and does it make a difference that he just ate at the LFS before I bought him? Thanks in advance for the help Sincerely Derek

I found this thing in my tank last night. It seems to open up more at night when the actinics are on or the tank is completely dark. This morning I woke up and it was completely closed. It looks to be brownish in color and about the size of a quarter in diameter. The stalk is maybe an inch to an...

I have a few scratches on my tank that I would like to gt rid of. Some are inside others are outside. Draining the tank is not really possible except for one that is close to the water line. Is there anything that I can use to get rid of the scratches on the inside without harming the living...