Recent content by Mike Parkis

The white /gray film on your rocks is were something has died. Blow it off and siphon it out of the tank when you can. If the rock was removed from the water at your fish store and carried dry to your tank there will be some additional die off. If you carried it submersed in water then the rock...

Your problem sounds more like a bad socket than a ballast problem.

Try Xenia if you can get some cheep.

THe super red mushrooms that I keep do not seem to get much bigger than 1 inch across. They are birght Neon pink when they start and darken to red, some times with white lines, as they age. They do not do well with bright (MH) lighting.

Here's another pic. THis one is of my Silver Tip Xenia Elongata Mother colony

I'll start you. Here is a picture that I like. This is a 14 inch Scarcophyton spp. Sold to me as a Umbrella Leather. Good luck.

Check out this link http://www.seaslugforum.net/scutus.htm#m1228 This is what my hitch hikers turned oout to be. Hope it helps.

If you have hermit crabs, then go with the turbo snails. The margarita's size makes their shells excellent hermit homes and your hermits will kill them for the shells. The turbo snails are mostly just too big for the hermits to bother.