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Has anyone had long-term experience with this fish in their reef? Not the orange spot, this one is from the Caribbean, it is lime green with blue-green eyes, about 2.5" long. Had an outbreak of aptasia; and within 48 hours of adding the file, the aptasia was completely eliminated without a...

Banggai Cardinal Royal Gramma Watchman Goby Any small Pseudochromis or dottyback Blue Hippo Tang Flame Hawk (If you don't have shrimp)

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeremy Russell: <STRONG>Fish stores ordering stuff they don't know how to care for.. tsk tsk tsk :P</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Your comment is not constructive to this thread. We are...

We received it on Monday, it is about 7 inches across and absolutely beautiful. Any care info or other experiences would be helpful. I know this is a natural color, not a dye. What I don't know is the care required, is it the same as other carpets or does the blue color mean it needs more/less...

As you all bicker and squash one another, I'll be doing some water changes and glass cleaning on my reef displays in the store.... Big coral shipment arriving from Timor on Monday. And yes I mark everything up 10,000 % (Just like Tom at Inland ) The higher the prices, the longer I get to...

Anybody else tried / seen this lamp?

At least some of you get the picture. Thank you for standing up for the GOOD Lfs out here.!! As an owner, I can tell you that I work longer hours and harder at keeping our place up than most would realize. There's just so many bad ones around here, that we need to be sure ours is the best...

How's this for a first-timer lighting system: PFO Black Powder Coated Aluminum hood 48" with 2 Icecap fans, 2 x 250 watt Iwaski 6500's + 2X110watt VHO Actinic's for a 72 Bow. Man I wish all new hobbyists were like that The guy said: "Get me something that I'll never want to upgrade" I just...

What time does the crew from "Fear Factor" arrive?

Not sure why this thread is kicking ***, If you can't beat em, join 'em. Fresh Ricordea rock, shipped out of water in the summer time with wads of spoogy dead chicken liver sponge hanging off the rocks. Umm Umm Good. 2 year old Mark Weiss products fermenting on the shelves in their deformed...

There it is.

Here's a pic I found of him.

In one of our Caribean shipments we received a very cool deepwater species which the divers called a "wrasse bass". I am wondering if anyone has any experience with them. He (she?) is 4" long with a bright magenta band down the length of his elongated, almost wrasse-like body shape. He ate...

first pic post, hope it worked!

he's talking about fromia elegans, I think.