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I've had fire shrimp before too, in my experience, they almost never come out unless you're feeding them. I would say the skunk is the best shrimp you can get as far as appearance, visibility, value, and potential usefulness (as an actual cleaner). just my 2 cents.

I had a skunk cleaner tear a smaller boxer shrimp apart in my 24-gallon aquapod before. I was pretty surprised, but apparently it's possible for there to be conflict. It happened after the shrimp were in the same tank together for a couple weeks if I recall correctly. So...hard to tell exactly why, hopefully you'll have no problems!

I bought a cheap yoga mat and cut it up. It worked great for exactly what you're talking about.

Seems I can't sell this stuff. Free for the first person to come get it out of my house. Stand built for Aquapod-24 (not sure dimensions, probably ~20"x20"x3') random stuff including: some food, a few supplements (strontium, iodine), ~6ft of 3/4" braided PVC, a reef fanatic ATO topoff controller (no probes included), and a CSL 32-watt CF ballast. Whoever comes must take everything, I don't care if you don't want it, I don't either. PM me for address

last bump...

$60 for tank, stand, and extras...

Bump for price drop. $75 for everything (except the overflow). Must be picked up in the next 2 days.

No interest at all? I thought $100 was a pretty good deal...am I asking too much?

I also have a screen top that I made and a glass top that I can throw in. Price drop to $100 for the tank, stand, and all extras. Please PM me if interested.

This is the contents of the miscellaneous bag of stuff: some food, a few supplements (strontium, iodine), ~6ft of 3/4" braided PVC, a reef fanatic ATO topoff controller (no probes included), and a CSL 32-watt CF ballast. The overflow is tentatively sold. Asking $120 OBO for the tank, stand, and everything else. Thanks, Nick

I thought I was going to keep this and move it, but my wife informed me that she HATES the stand. Since I built the stand specifically for this tank, there's really not much point in keeping the tank. The stand is pretty overbuilt, and it was designed to fit a 10-gallon sump underneath. There is a tile top...ummm, not much else exciting about it. The paint on the door is chipping and it could use a good sand, but it still looks okay. I've had this tank running for a little over 2 years and just took everything out recently. The tank is in great shape, no scratches. The rear false wall is not connected, so if you want to use it you need to silicon it back in place. Tank comes with a return pump, an extra pump that I used for circulation, and a little fuge light that I connected to the back. I'll also throw in a bag of miscellaneous stuff that I don't feel like moving including an ATO controller that needs some sensors, some random tubing, a few supplements...some other stuff. I'd like $120 for the stand, tank, and other misc. stuff. Oh, and I want to try and sell the Eshopps 1800 overflow (with flexible PVC tubing) that I pretty much just bought from another WAMAS member. I'm hoping to get $25 for that, which is exactly what I spent.

Wow, your tank and stand are really stunning. I think you've inspired me to start building something new. Awesome job man!

Nothing is worse than eels as far as jumping. It's pretty scary seeing a 2 ft long fish writhing around on the floor too...at least they're meaty enough to survive most falls. Sorry about your jumpers Jan, I had a red firefish for a long time that sure darted, but never actually jumped.

I love reading stories about your tank Paul, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for having the courage to share this with everyone Bob. It's really fantastic that you could take such an awful situation and turn it into a great lesson for everyone to learn from. You're obviously a very strong person and I hope the rest of your recovery is quick too!

I'm curious why you decided to stop keeping seahorses. You're probably the most knowledgeable seahorse person I've actually gotten to meet. I'm excited for your new horizons though, I'm sure your new set-up will be pretty awesome!

Congratulations! Getting to be a parent is awesome and so much fun! Enjoy him!

One or two of the other larger heads had a couple planulae in them, but the one I got the video of looked like it had the most. I counted ~a dozen that actually left the parent coral and were crawling around the feeding container I had them in. I'm sure there were more than that to start, but they probably went into the main tank before I put the coral in the feeding container. Of the ones I was able to find, it looks like 10 or 11 settled on the rubble I put in the smaller container for them. Thanks! I'll try checking out how to make a little post about all this.

Thanks for the nice words everyone, I'll try to make them happy and update the post whenever I get new pictues.

I tried to get pictures of the tiny polyps, but they're pretty darn small. Maybe I'll try taking some to work to get some pictures on the microscope...

Well, I'm pretty sure they're larvae. I tried to take a movie of them moving but my camera just isn't good enough. Here's one about to leave: Here are a few crawling around the container I was feeding the sun corals in: I sucked up the ones I could find and put them into a little container with some rocks: After a day or two it looks like they attached to the rocks: I just checked yesterday and it looks like small polyps are starting to form. I'll try to get some pics in the next couple days.

Our power didn't go out till 4 AM. I'm trying not to hate pepco...hopefully they finally give us a reason not to...

I just feed them frozen stuff, mostly mysis, sometimes adding a little of Scott's food. When I'm lazy I'll give them pellets. After looking through a bunch of stuff my best guess is that they're planula too. At least I should say that's what I hope they are. The coral doesn't seem sick or diseased, it's actually been a pretty big pig for a long time. I hope they're friendly, but I guess there's no way to tell other than give it time and see if the spots go away and: a) the coral dies or b) I find new polyps somewhere Cool, I hope this means they're happy, I can't imagine where something like this would have come from, so I'm pretty optimistic that they are supposed to be there. I'll try to get better videos and post if I'm successful. Thanks for the thoughts everyone!

All right, this is the weirdest thing I have ever seen in my aquarium. Last night I was feeding my sun corals and I noticed some weird light-colored spots on my black sun coral. I stared at them for a while and noticed that THEY STARTED TO MOVE. The spots are INSIDE the coral tissue. I've had this coral for probably over a year and it has branched quite a few times and I think it's grown pretty well. I have never seen these spots before, I'm almost positive the black sun coral did not have them a while ago, and I haven't been able to see the same spots on my other sun corals. I've been intensively feeding my sun corals because they have basically stopped growing and my dendro is even starting to have to have some tissue recession from the base up. They are all eating great (especially the dendro) and last night is the first time the black sun coral has opened up for a good meal in probably a week or two. Here is a pic of the spots: Here is the So what the heck are these things? They move like flatworms and they're really quick. Has anyone heard of internal flatworm parasites? Who would be the authority on this kind of thing that I could ask? Would a freshwater dip work on internal parasites? I'm having a strange mix of terror and curiosity... Thanks! Nick

trick question, the zoas are eating EACH OTHER...the horror...