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Are you sure those are worms? In the closeup photos they appear more like the mushrooms mesenterial filaments (aka the guts it uses to digest food)....
Agreed...EC's typically are better placed with the pointed tip of the skeleton in the sand. Do you know if those EC's came from Indonesia or...
They are touchy and will close up at the slightest sense of danger. As a filter feeder they can/will be open any time of the day or night.
Happy Birthday! It's always nice to see pictures of things once they make it into peoples tanks. Just for clarification those are a type of...
As mentioned the time frames are just guidelines. Typically young tanks have things going on with various parameters for several months after the...
Very nice setup...very impressive for someone just starting out in the hobby. Having your sump and equipment in the basement/cellar is great. Mine...
You can carefully remove it...ideally don't want to "pop it" as this can help it spread. Emerald crabs may also eat it.
Agreed...harmless and good little addition to you CUC.
Looks like it's been away from light for awhile. I've seen some like that come out of rocks that have been kept in the dark...aiptasia can survive...
Agreed...looks like Aiptasia or "glass anemone"...if left they can reproduce to fairly epic numbers and also have the ability to sting other more...
Nothing in my ATO's but water. One little mishap and your ATO dumps a couple gallons of extra water in your system of you could be in trouble. If...
Leathers are very moody...it can take quite awhile for them to fully acclimate to a tank. They will tolerate a wide variety of lighting, but don't...
Premium Aquatics was always good to me when I used to order fairly large orders from them...they even set up some truck shipments on pallets for some...
Agreed...looks like Stomatella to me too. Perfectly harmless...we have tons of them in our holding and growout tanks.
A lot of corals don't like constant direct flow. Sometimes "bouncing" the flow off the side of the aquarium glass will help "break it up". That...
It would depend on the type/intensity and number of LED's. If it's a high output LED setup then you're probably in the same boat....
The prettiest growths of all kinds of colors of coralline I've ever had were under PC's...I would agree it's prefers less light or more subdued...
Bone nippers or even wire cutters work well...the trick is to "nip" at the very edge where you want it to break...don't try and use them to actually...
Very nice DIY write up. I made one similar from 3" PVC too. I found a magnifying glass at WallyWorld that once popped out of the frame/handle was a...
Fun thread, LOL! My first tank was 28 years ago when I lived in Stamford, CT close to Long Island Sound. It was a 20g used for a hermit crab...
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