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hermits bothering your SPS?

Yea that was a class act by quantum reef! Good to know that a vendor cares about fishes feelings as much as we do!

Wahoooo thanks for the info!

Your happy pants fish need to stop spawning. Your special diet doesn't cure or even prevent fish herpies.

Yay happy ending! good job smallreef! This is the feel good story of the year! None of us like to see fish suffer.

My tangs wont touch anything not warmed up in the toaster oven. They also love fresh uncooked spinach and its supposed to have a lot of vitamin C and other good stuff. controversial though bc its not a natual food. They dont seem to mind.

Also is it best to freeze it or does it last forever?

How did I know you would know chuck lol. I'm going to check it out. May take me an hour to find it do I just ask for nori algae? Or does it carry a fancy name like sea lettuce when it is used in people food?

Hi! Im brian and Im an aquaholic. Im also not going to lie. a couple times. I might have taken a lick of saltwater before taking a shot of tequila. My hands most often have salt residue on them. Sometimes I kinda feel like a nerd when my friends come over. Sometimes they barely glance at the tank and I wonder to myself how that is possible.

Good question Ill check the one i go to in Wheaton. May take me a week or so to find time to get in there.

We don't always use AC at my house. My tank gets to upper 80s sometimes. The only thing that shows signs of stress is fungia.

My Xenia is angry. All other corals flourishing. It's all sucked in and hasn't come out for about 6 days. It did great for the first couple weeks. So I did a little google research and here is what reef central said....but we are better. 1)person said water is too clean. I don't think that is the case since my nitrates are at 10ppm. Last week they were At 20 so it's possible. 2) person said they dosed iodine to save theirs. I don't have testing kits for iodine so I just dumped in reccomended amount last night. Ill let you know if it works. I have decent flow. Any other suggestions?

Do clowns only swim in one anemone or do they like to roll around in all of them?

Thanks for helping me understand earlier that my tank will be just fine with some rust in it. us newbies appreciate your help and advice and sometimes we take advice with skepticism until it sinks in. Im with you i think flakes are about as healthy as Taco Bell packed full of vitamins. The vitamins make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside but really it's still just flippin Taco Bell. Im glad you are showing us more ways to make live food more practical. I supplement my tangs with fresh spinach. Very controversial since its people food and not available in the sea but at least it isn't McDonald's.

Yea neat we all need to learn more about this

Wow close call bet thAt was exciting! Nice Picasso clowns do they spawn? How long ya had them?

Come on slick Rick! We wanna BUY BUY BUY!

Wow this is exciting. I was in the shop a few days ago. He's loaded with sweet corals.

After it settles and your ATO reservoir is pumped empty you just rinse out the remaining settled kalk and put in new with water right? The settling makes me nervous as well. What if some of that stuff gets in the tank every time will it start to accumulate in the tank after years?

Sounds good

Lol you guys are crazyyyy. We need to go save all the clams from safeway. when these clams die do they at least surface from sand and open up to give you warning that they are about to send ammonia and nitrate storms as they decompose? that way if I get a free one I can just keep an eye on it. But if they die under the sand bed undetected that can mean trouble.

I didn't know I had them until I saw them living on the rough part of my magnet cleaner. They sting??!! When they get how big?

+1 my macro algae barely put a dent in my nitrates but every bit counts plus Its one more cool organism to have in a system.

I have a 6 line wrasse. He hunts non stop swirling around the rocks. Never seen him find or eat anything but Im sure hes getting em. What is your way of putting them out of their misery?

Yea nitrate storm likely eventually. No thanks!