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Is it just loosing it's color? or is it shedding it's skin? If it is shedding it's skin, I would take it out and frag the unaffected branches right away. Make sure that where you cut the new frags is well above the infected/affected areas. Otherwise you could loose the entire frag/colony in a...

Hey Scott, Under my house is a fine sand, so I bought six 12 inch cement pilons and two 4x4 by 8 foot long redwood heart beams to support my 450gal 8 foot long tank. My crawl space is about 12 inches... I don't know why they call it a crawl space cauze I had to slink and squerm under there on...

I have two of the 3175 g/hl Tunze Streams hooked up to the Tunze controller. I want to get 2 more (my tank is 450 gal though), but I have heard that Tunze is coming out with even larger pumps! It's been awhile since I set mine up, I know that you can control the amount of flow with the...

Looks like a nassarius snail next to possibly a tunicate (sponge)... hard to tell from the picture. But that's my best guess.

Not as close as everybody else, but it's feeding time... brainz

I would suggest 3-5 lower wattage MHs all with 2 or 3 different color temperature bulbs. If you use any 20K MHs (IMO) you shouldn't need to use any actinics, as the 20K are plenty blue. If you also use 14K MHs and/or 10K MHs you will be hitting your corals with more color temp spikes, which...

I have: 2x 250w 20K XM MHs 2x 250w 14K Hamilton MHs 2x 400w 10K XM MHs These are some pics of my tank's accomplishments (I like the results!) http://reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=53353 Since going with multiple color temp lights, I have noticed better coraline growth and coloration and...

I wasn't suggesting a change of color temperature. As bulbs age their color temp tends to shift. In order to get back to the desirable color temp, you need to replace the old bulbs. Six months to 1 year seems to be the general life expectency range of various bulbs. Since you asked about color...

Something else you may want to try is shortening your photo period from 12 hours to 8 or less hours per day. But if you decide to try this, do it gradually over time. If you decide to change the bulbs as srbayless suggested, do one bulb at a time and make sure that the new bulb is on for...

Try using a skimmer... and clean it weekly! When skimate starts to line the bubble chamber, the skimmer is no longer working at maximum efficiency.

...or if $220.00 does scare you! You could try Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific by Gosliner, Behrens & Williams Depends what you want to ID. Have to agree with Mr. Mohr about the internet... post your pictures and ask a question.

Nice picture of a groundhog! It's croped a little close for an avatar... :twisted:

I read more about the catshark... I guessing that it will not do well in an aquarium. They seem to be a very deep water species. Read up more about them.

Here is a better site about sharks for aquariums: http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/sharks_rays/sharks_rays.htm They recommend a minimum of 180 gal tank for "the smaller less active of the species"

Probably some tube worms that were out fishing for food until you hoinked away their fishing lines. There are many things that capture food particles by such means. That is my guess at what it may have been.