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i've read that this is widely considered reef "safe" but with any trigger crustaceans are the food of choice does anyone have any experience with them in a reef and if so how did they fair with a cleanup crew really looking to get a pair and was wondering if people have had good luck with them...

what should i do about this...its almost a plant like alge.... what eats it or kills it? see pics.

Any input appreciated. Friend has a 150 Tenecor, 35g sump, all Tunze equipment (skimmer, osmolator, stream, filter, bio-reactor, etc.) Elegance from Reef Hot Spot doing well (3 X 150 MH; 4 X 96 actinic lighting); after 10 days it goes 1/2 dead yesterday and all gone today. No noticable...

So what is your biggest nemesis in your tank?

i was thinking of getting one for my tank what kind of experience has anyone had with these in a reef and will he be ok with my maroon clowns algae blennie and bangaii cardinals.thanx MIKE

Alright alright ive decided to get some updated pics of my tank started about 2 months ago looking like this. i still havent done anything with the back :o its gonna happen soon i promise! i have a 4 bulb T-5 setup, a 10 gallon sump with chaeto and live rock under PC lighting, a maxijet 1200...

Ok. Hope you all had a nice 3 day weekend, I know I did. So did my Bryopsis. After being gone for 3 days, ....... well look for yourself.... That is a few shots of my new forest. Appearently someone tried to manually remove it from the 2 spots it was (before knowing this may be a bad...

I have been running my 100 gal. reef tank with a 660 ice cap lighting system using 2, H.O.40 watt, 20,000 kelvin coralife fluoescent bulbs as well as 2, 40 watt actinic blue V.H.O bulbs..everything seems to be going well except my 20,000k fluoescents seem to burn out ferquently[3months or so].I...

I got a foxface for my tank two days ago...he was acclimated with the drip method and i know it was pretty rough on him...he seemed to recover pretty good swimming from wall to wall by 5:00am, then every once in a while hell be hiding behind the rocks losing color and just looks to be in rough...

Hey all, I'm thinking about adding an automatic feeder to keep my fish fed more often during the day and when I'm away. Currently, I am only feeding golden pearls for the fish and corals and some frozen mysis and brine shrimp. Oh, and nori for the tangs a few times a week. I'm looking to...

I am setting up a zoo pally frag tank this tank will be for grow out purposes the idea is to separate the zoo's and pally from sps and lps what I hoping to do is supply zoo's and pally's s at a reasonable price more difficult pally's like ppe I think will always be more expensive but in about a...

It appears while I slept somebody stole my new Grandiosa Palythora frag. :mad: not sure who the culprit is yet it was about 10 polyps hadn't even opened yet. I will look for frag when I get home and investigate the suspects when I get home. Foxface how ever is one of them most likely of my...

Something in my tank is eating my cleaner shrimp and my snails. I have a Niger Trigger, Clown, Foxface, Grandma, Coral Beauty, and a diamond goby. I also have 3 large hermit crabs, a bunch of little ones, a large long tentacle anemone, and a bunch of soft corals. I am guessing that the...

Yep. Got a bit of an algae problem starting to happen. Yes I know I need to alter things to fix this, but also I would like to pick up a fish to graze on this green. The tank is a 155G bowfront, so Tangs will be an acceptable choice. (155G much to the dismay of the ATPNF-speechles) I have had...

What is the best way to get rid of this stuff in my display tank? 200gallon tank, 50 gallon refuge, 50G sump/skimmer 6 emerald crabs 1.5 foot long anemone (which i'm scared will eat any new fish, as it ate my sailfin tang that i bought) foxface 2 clowns mandarin spotted goby kole tang 2...

Well my tank came down with a horrible case of ICH. So.. I took the day off work today and set up a QT system made up of 150 gallon rubbermaid and 55 gallon tank... full of pvc pipe and fittings for hiding spots... I took all the rock out of my tank.. caught all the fish(no easy task) and got...

Has anybody had luck with their Naso tang eating the bubble algae in their tank? I all of a sudden have an outbreak in the 100 and don't want to chance putting any kind of crab(emerald), but have room for one tang (6ft long tank). Anybody have luck with other tangs eating it? Thanks, Tom