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Are you certain that what you saw wasn't merely a cast-off cuticle? Hermits do shed their cuticles as they grow, and they look a LOT like a dead...
Besides your tank being too small, walking batfish have their own very special care requirements, and don't do well in community settings. You...
What you'll notice is that the Amphiscolops population will begin to wane as their available food source (copepods) disappears. Being predatory,...
If you have macro, you'll have more pods, so you could remove the macro, which may help some. Do you know what kind of pods you have? Live mysis...
Jagers are still the best bang for the buck, IME.
The only way for the lion to eat a hermit is for the hermit to be out of its shell. We keep scarlets in pretty much all of our DT's with no trouble....
We had several peps in our softy/LPS reef and never had any troubles. The tank also had fish in it, and the peps were well-fed as a result, which...
It's probably the emerald crab that did it...if not, the shrimp is likely. Do you feed the inverts?
Use some neoprene around the pipe a if you use a U-clamp. It should help deaden the vibe.
How often are you feeding the fish? If you're feeding the fish every day, it's never going to be hungry enuff to try "something new"...a hungry lion...
It kinda sounds like poisoning...possibly due to bacterial toxins. To that end, you can try a healthy water change and run some extra carbon. Is...
Generally, the trouble with many anthias species is that they'll be fine for a while, and once settled, they begin to pick each other off until one...
What's really high, and how are you cycling the tank?
Be careful if you start mounting the pipework to your stand, as you can end up tranferring vibration/noise to the tank and/or the space in the stand...
Sounds like the food may have caused your problem. Not only could it make the fish sick by eating it, the bacteria, etc. growing on it could be...
What one must consider is that hermits, and most other crabs are OPPORTUNISTIC OMNIVORES, which means they won't pass up an easy meal. Once some...
If the crab can get thru a couple of molts, it should be OK, as the legs/claws will regrow. However, you'll need to make sure it can eat, so you may...
I'd try to present the food to the fish in the water column, as opposed to letting it hit the substrate, because it looks more "alive" while it's...
I pretty much plumb everything with black flexible thickwall tubing (Lee's is the brand I see most often). Besides looking nice, the black prevents...
The binomial name for green grape Caulerpa is Caulerpa racemosa. It's a fast-grower, so you'll want to keep it pruned to control it. If you see...
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