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They eat hundreds upon hundreds of pods a day, so a couple of weeks isn't going to do much.
This is how you sex them. In all of the crabs I've seen that I've had, the female just has the rounded area without that little point on the top....
No way to tell from that pic.
*psst, thread was from 2009*
In the wild they stay in schools for protection against predators. They still pick each other off, there's just so many more it's not as noticeable....
I agree with Vinny on vacuuming a sand bed that is that deep. And I totally understand about the SO not listening LOL.
Snap at me, it's actually 2 years old! I'm still living in 2011.
There's not really any resource for exact ID's on sponges that I've found. You could start here and see if you run across it.
I don't run my fuge 24/7, I was at first, but after talking to the LFS ran theirs 24/7 and still had it go sexual, I just keep an opposite light...
What size is the tank?
Thread's a year old...
It's very common in new tanks. I'm assuming new tank by the join date.
That's why you clean it often. We do ours at least twice a week, swap dirty for clean, then clean the dirty ones.
Our war coral is doing so much better now, full recovery after sitting on a mushroom for 8 hours (twice LOL), and is now attaching to the rock on 2...
Sorry, didn't see your post till just now. Yellow Coris wrasse.
I agree, sponge.
I would agree on cyano. Sometimes it's so dark green or dark red it looks black.
I had something similar years ago. Definitely not GSP if there's no mat. Best I could ever get on an ID back then was "daisy polyps" LOL....
Very common in newer tanks that haven't balanced out yet.
It won't stop it enough to matter, IME. We have plenty of pods and have various sponges in various places, including one over the return pump to...
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