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You are correct, eventually you will have crushed coral again. The sand will work its way to the bottom.
No, :hehe:
Rad pic!!!
Stomatella varia = good...
Sushi got it, it's a hydroid of some sort...
Male meleagris?
Looks like "skittles" went straight to front street. Didn't take long for it to establish dominance.
Part of the problem with feeding them is their feathers/arms have slots in them that narrow as they get closer to the tube. Kind of like a coin...
Pick the fattest/sketchiest one. My experience with this fish over many years is ich. Tough fish on one hand and susceptible to external parasites in...
Are you ordering this fish online?
In addition to their poisonous slime coating, they sleep in a cocoon like layer of mucous. The fish appears to be dead and will even lay motionless...
Dragonettes cover themselves with a poisonous slime coating when they sleep.
scypha sponges?
Welcome to 3reef... Couple of others from the CT area on here. Do you have any "monster freshwater" pics? ;D
I found a good rule of thumb for asterinas was to remove if I didn't have to get to wet.
Peanut worm?
Yes... Good sign.
One on the left looks like botryocladia skottsbergii or red valonia. One on the right needs a better pic. Don't pop them if/when you remove them.
Yes, it's called photoinduced isomerisation. Different light spectrums can affect chromophores and fluorescent proteins in corals.
You're right! Of what? *I should mention that mine jumped out of the tank.
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