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Thanks for all the great info. I never did mention that the clowns host the RBTA. But not the sebae. Maybe they dont like the constant rubbing the clowns give. I have talked to a few local stores the last couple days. I think light is an issue(that hopefully I will be solving soon). It still has really good color very bright pink just never bubbles up and stays very small. I will try and post some pics tonight.

The snail may have been dead or dying my emerald, hermits, and porcelin(spelling?) have been seen eating dead snail even fightting over them. When the snail is alive none bother them. My crabs love when I put some seawead or nori tied to a weight. Thats the only time they really come fully into the open. I also agree if you have problems give them a time out in the refugiem.

Thanks Emerald... I think I am starving them to death(according to the link). I feed them every other day(both of them). They only share one to two mysis shrimp cubes. I am now upping the food(marine cuisene) I will see if they will eat more and come back.

Right now I have a RBTA(3 months old) and a sebae(which is newer(1 month old) and looks ok) both drip acclimated over a three hour period when put into the tank. I am trying the sebae since I cant seem to get the BTAs to live. The RBTA was a split from a guy I met. Sebae is from a local dealer. I hate killing my wet pets...

It has shrunken a bit but it appeared to come from its mouth but was hard to tell. The tank has been running for 8 months in my house. Supposedly 2 years for the guy I bought it from(I took everything even his water and fish as this was going to be my first salt tank). I am running one 260 watt power compact with half pure actinic bulbs and the other half 10000k and a 220 watt vho fixture with one super actinic bulb and one aqua sun. Oh and by the way it is a standard dimension 90 gallon tank(too little of light for them I think) and the anemones are more than halfway up on some rocks. I have had the anemone in there for 3 months now. Thanks for the info...

I have had no luck with anemones. What does it mean when they emit a little bit of brown slime? My water parameters are great. I even took samples to a couple stores. They said it looked good. This was yesterday before the slime. The other RBTA I had did the same just before detaching and turning into a slime ball. I am new to this saltwater game. So I dont know what information will be most helpful to determine the problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I am so jealous... I have had dreams of an oregon coast tank for years(before I ever had salt tanks). I decided to go tropical due to lack of information locally. If you ever run across a source to get another tank like that i would love to put it in my hotrod shop office. GREAT TANK KEEP UP THE WORK!!!

There is a really cool tide pool at the end of short sands beach... It is a little walk to the beach from the oswald west state park parking lot but worth it. You may want to get a fish and wildlife book cause they just changed some of the stuff you can collect... That park is just a few miles from seaside just a mile past cannon beach happy hunting

Need a fixture, or caps and ballast. I have 2 46.5in(110w) bulbs I would like to use. Or possibly trade twoards some other lighting That would be good for a 90 gallon.

I have several I get them from a friend that works in a hospital

I got a 12 gauge that would nicely destroy some tanks!!!