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Yes it is a peanut worm! Great for a reef aquarium and yet just another example of the plethora of life within our aquariums benthic areas, some we...
Set up a room fan to create evaporational cooling by blowing across the top of your aquarium. This will also aid in gas exchange!
Crimson Ghost brought up a great point! Two other things that are a negative in using a top is that water temp will usually rise, plus the amount of...
To be honest with you, I would not use the watts per gallon rule, because so many reefers get rapped up in the whole lighting issue that they...
Try quarantining it and give it a freshwater or iodine dip of sorts to hopefully rectify the situation. One thing reefers should learn from this is...
Depends alot on other variable such as light, water parameters, defication, something else bothering it as well.
Nerite snails are notorious for doing this as they are a tidal snail that doesn best when it can be totally isolated from the water for awhile. They...
Most species of Acropora require intense lighting. Going from 400watt halides to 150 halides is a big jump and could stress your acropora and cause...
First of all, welcome to 3reef! Now as for your lighting question, the corals that you have are all pretty light tolerant, meaning they will handle...
Maybe a Gold-Rimmed Tang
I believe it is a species of algae! The reason why I eliminate the assumption of it being a sponge is that sponges consist of numerous...
If my assumptions are correct, this is not a good sign for Sea Stars and normally leads down the unfortunate road to its demise. You can try to...
Thanks for the kind words first of all. Congrats on your decision to set up a marine aquarium and bring your questions here as well! Now to try and...
Wow! that was a close call Bogie as I just finished water changes on my two tanks!! I am not happy with my 75 gallon right now as I have alot of...
Oh, one other important bit of info regarding plerogyra is the fact that these corals possess strong and long sweeper tentacles that can reach out...
Fortunately Bubbles(Plerogyra) are one of the more hardy hermatypic corals and reduced lighting should be handled pretty well by this type of coral....
I would like to take this time to thank all of you here at 3reef for your kind support, friendship, loyalty and wealth of knowledge and dedication....
I think the seagrass idea would be cool, such as is the case with mangroves. I like miracle mud and have used it in my refugium with success. I...
Diatoms feed on silicates. You can try testing for them to see how much you have in your tank!
Yes it should! What I like to do with the area where mystandpipe is and the overflow is put snails in their as well as macroalgae, to help to...
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