Recent content by lamfish

Hi I have a large green brittle star. The tentacles are startint to turn a little brown? Starfish seems healthy though. Have anybody seen this or Does anybody know what is happening to him without guessing?

I am thinking about making my 46G oceanic bowfront into a reef ready tank. The problem is, oceanic doesnt make 46G bowfront reef ready tanks. Also, i cant drill a hole in the bottom of my 46G bowfront because of the tempered bottom glass will shatter if drilled. I've heard that if you use the...

Hi i have a 46 gallon bowfront with a wet/dry filter. The tank water evaporates quite frequently and i have to top off the water by pouring water in the sump perhaps every 3 days. Does anyone know how to build a device that automatically tops off the water when it evaporates?

Hi does anybody know a website that shows pictures of small unknown creatures that pop up in your tank out of nowhere? I have found many types of these in my tank including small snails, bristleworms, peanut worms, small feather dusters, q-tip shaped sponges, copepods, amphipods, etc. I just...

[Hi i have a torch with 8 heads on it. unfortunately due to water change without enough salt, the torch couldnt take the salinity drop and one of the heads died. the salinity was corrected the next day and all other heads are back to normal. will the dead head grow new life?]

[Hi ive had my PBT for 2 months now. It seems pretty healthy and swims gracefully through the tank all day. it seems to be doing fine with exceptions of a few problems. The only thing it is willing to eat is frozen brine shrimp. ive tried many other things like frozen omnivore diet and seaweed...

[Hi i have a hammer and a torch coral next to each other. do these two get along or will they sting one another?]

[hi i placed a kenya tree near my Green star polyps. now the star polyps stopped coming out. i think they might be dead. does anyone know if kenya trees might sting green star polyps?]

[Hi i have a 46 gallon tank with about 50lbs of live sand and 50 lbs of live rock. My corals are as follows: Kenya Tree Bubble Coral Orange Zoos Orange Green Zoos Torch Coral Green Mushrooms Brown Mushrooms Xmas Tree Rock Xenias Brown Star polyps Green Star Polyps Brownish Green Star polyps I...

[Hi, i am trying to learn how to propagate mushrooms. Ive herd to just cut the mushroom into pie peices and ive herd to slice em and thump them so the spores will spread? does anybody know the proper technique to propagate mushrooms? I need all the info i can get. Thanks]

[I have a 46 gallon Bowfront. Im using a 75 Gallon Wet Dry sump. For some reason im having to pour in like 2 gallons of water every other day. I know the tank and sump is not leaking so i believe the water is evaporating. is this normal?]

[Few questions about perculas Whats the difference between False and true Perculas? What are mated perculas?]

[Can someone ID this bubble lookin coral? Thanks]

[I have placed some mangroves in my tank in attempts to control nitrate level. Can mangroves be submersed under water or does part of it have to peek out above water level?]