Mitchell

Both the Tiger Tail Cucumber and the Edible Sea Cucumber are not poisonous, but they will release their guts when scared or dead, which can really mess up your water.

Does anyone know of any stores that have them in stock? Also if anyone has one and doesn't want one I'll buy it.

I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Being sumpless really makes things difficult. I am using it to run ROX carbon and GFO. Do I need any other kind of filter or should I be ok with just my reactor and psk-100h protein skimmer.

How much for light and what make/model is it?

So, I have been running it at the lowest setting for the past few days. Friday I cleaned the little bit of skimmate I had out. Between Friday and today look at all the skimmate I got and this is at the lowest setting!

Thanks guys. I guess I wont rip them of the rock then.

Some hermits are safer than others. A lot of people here have Hawaiian Zebra Hermits in their reefs with no problem. I have 10 Scarlet Hermits in my 55 gallon and they don't bug anything. I would say peppermint shrimp are not a sure bet. I know they are a threat to clams and other things if they are hungry. I regret putting turbo snails in my tank. They blast through anything in their path, including coral frags and clams. Almost every morning I am picking up a frag off the sand.

Do you think they would be a threat to my coral or clam?

All the "worms" seem to lead back to one central point. I know its hard to see in the picture and me circling parts of the worms probably didn't help.

I bought some xenia on a little rock tonight and when I brought it home I noticed something weird on the rock. They are brown with black stripes, about the width of a hair and the longest ones are about an inch long. They seem to move around on their own, so I don't think its some kind of crazy algae. What are they?

Wow, thanks for all the info MVP. I'll make sure to contact you once I am ready to start. Thanks again, Mitchell

Hollywood has a pretty cool Australian epaulette shark in their show tank. A couple years ago they also had a black tip in what looked to be a 300 gallon tank. The poor thing only lasted a couple months. OK good. I was worried I caused a argument, I am glad I didn't.

That's why I am looking at getting a shark that grows to a maximum of 18" not 4 feet. I had no intention on getting into a big discussion. Keeping sharks is a very touchy subject and everyone has their own opinion, which is great. That's all I am going to say.

Beautiful corals, I would buy some if my tank was older. Why is the color on the green bird nest frag so different than the mother colony? My green bird nest frag has the same coloring as your frag.

Nope the odyssea bulbs are T5 also. I am using the same fixture, just switching bulbs. I am running the blue+ for normal hours, but I am only running the aquablue and purple+ for 4 hours. Each day I'll leave them on a little longer. Does this sound like a good strategy?

Is there anyone locally breeding Banggai Cardinalfish? I am looking into breeding them for a school project. Any info on what I need to start breeding them would be very helpful.

I have bought plastic many times from Tap's and they never charged me to cut it. They didn't even charge me when I had a 25 cent scrap piece cut.

1+ for Tap's Plastic

I just remembered that my new ATI t5 light bulbs are coming tomorrow. I am currently using two 12,000k odyssea bulbs and two actinic odyssea bulbs. I am switching to: 2 ATI blue+, 1 ATI aqua blue and an ATI purple+, so its a change in both par and spectrum. Do I need to acclimate my coral and clam to the new light bulbs, or do I just run them as normal.

The instructions only show me how to put it together, tell me how to start the siphon and say that it takes about a day for it to break in and that's it.