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I'm renovating my lighting on my reef tank. It is home to SPS, LPS, colts, shrooms, hydaphora, black and pink and yellow sun corals, etc etc The point of my story is that it's about time to get a new halide bulb(did I mention i had a crap load of zoas?) Anyway, so i have an icecap ballast...

I have 10 branching sun coral frags. Every book I've read said that these types cannot be propagated;However, I accidentally figured out how. I'm looking to maybe trade some into the local petshop for store credit, but I don't know what they are worth and I don't want to get the shaft. I'd...

one of the two 65w coralife ballasts in my lighting fixture fried. where can I get a replacement? -Donovan

I am taking this tank with me to the waco VA Hospital for Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(I spent 13 months in sustained combat in Iraq). What I have right now, is a pourover marine life biowheel filter I had laying around the house, A 75W heater, 2X65w CP flourescents. Right now it's...

Our clownfish have been very protective of their Sebae lately. We saw the male doing the same little fertilizing dance we saw on Marc's site. He does it every couple of minutes toward dinner time, but he does it IN the anemone, and always on a particular side (it's a really really big Sebae)...

Everybody corrects me whenever I say "Zoa" and insists I say "Zoo". I felt like I should post to clear things up in hopes people would stop correcting me. (As paraphrased from The Super Simple Guide to Corals, by James W. Fatherree) Zoanthus spp. (Zoanthids): Zoas are colonies of polyps...

It split at least twice. Tomorrow we're going to move the rock to see if it did it again. One of the clones looks like it's wanting to seperate AGAIN. My husband moved the BTA to the left side of the tank. He came back and saw one clown hosting it on the right side. He thought "How'd it move...

So, I found a baby jellyfish swimming around in my tank today. I have no idea how he got there. He's seriously the size of a sequin. I put him in his own little fishbowl with tank water, sand, and an airstone for circulation (which is plenty of "current" for him). Anybody know what these guys...

How often do you clean your entire skimmer? Do you use salt or fresh to do it? -Catherine

We dropped off the 46g we sold tonight. We chatted with the owners while watching their 2 month old reef. She bought tons of coral as soon as she got it and filled the tank. She had a sun coral that looked pretty dead. She said we could have it because it started going downhill ever since she...

We're in the market for a UV sterilizer for our 75g. After thinking about it, we think the previous owner of our tank (and sand and rock) may have just let ich clear up on it's own, leaving little free-flowers to potentially get our fish. I know one of our fish had bad pop eye after being...

I have a 10g QT that's finishing it's cycle. I'm getting a powder blue tang and a bi-color angel (the blue and yellow one) today. Can I QT those in the 10g tank for a week or is that too small? I could put them in our 46 that we sold but it's being picked up this weekendand I'd hate to...

Ok, so is it really unheard of to hear about a Xenia doing something random? We had 2 new colonies from Chris Curtis that have been in our system, and growing, for a month now. They are right next to our existing colony (but not touching). A few days ago we noticed 1-2 of the arms on the...

Yesterday we added a baby Blue Hippo Tang. He was no larger than 1 inch. He was tank bred. When I bought him he was schooling with 2 other siblings, when I added him to the tank he swam around the top and middle of the water column. My husband and I went out with friends, when we came back we...

There are little red oblong spots that were appearing in the sandbed between the sand and the glass. They're slowly getting larger. They're semi-clear and near the top. Is this something I need to worry about? -Catherine

Ok so I saw this really cool fish that I hadn't seen for sale before at the LFS today. The owner called it a "Jackknife" and was selling it for something like $30. I like him, but couldn't find it for sale at any online stores. I got this picture from a google search. Are they reef safe? Is it...

Using the phytoplankton growing method we're trying to grow what's in the bottle of live phyto-feast. It's live. Who knows if it'll grow. I haven't heard of anybody else doing this before. Have any of you done this before? Any suggestions? I'll let you know how it turns out. -Catherine

So we got an order from saltwaterfish.com in today. We're pretty impressed. They did a very good job and we got nice healthy looking fish. However, they only packed one tiny coldpack and it was warm by the time we got it (even with overnight shipping). All the other fish and inverts look fine...

So. Today I learned that superglue doesn't work too well on mushrooms. They're just too darn slimy. I didn't have any mesh or wedding veil (haha I haven't had my wedding YET so naturally I don't have one). Any clear plastic things (cups, coke bottle bottoms etc.) I put on top of the 'shroom and...

Donovan and I met up with Chris Curtis this weekend (what's up dude?) and got some mushrooms and other various frags from him (thanks! :D) I got home and used my super glue gel to mount our new corals. It was like 1am and without thinking I mounted the bases of our new mushrooms using super...