About 3 months into my 55 gal reef, i noticed these little (1-2mm) white spots on the glass, does anyone know what these are, if they are good or bad?

OK ... so I noticed a dozen green bubble algae sprouting up on a couple rocks .. so I went to the LHWS and found 2 all plastic brushes for $1.25 each. I heated and bent the handle at 90 degrees then cut one short so it can dig in the holes. In the sump I connected a mesh bag to the incomming...

well ... the fam and i left for massachussetts friday morning for a hockey tournament...(insert brag here: we were the number 1 class c team again, with my son logging both our goals in the championship game) ... got home sunday night to find the tank water perfectly clear, the mushrooms nearly...

I have a lot of these white tube thing on my LR and at the end of it it looks like there are red feather dusters coming out of each of them. I know feather duster are filter feeders. Could they be baby feather dusters?

since im so new to this, im spending WAY to much time just starting at live rock... im sure you all remember how cool it was as you notice thousands of little things youve never seen before. today i noticed what seem to be tiny tiny baby feather dusters. i cant see where they come out...

Hello, I am new and I am enjoying reading all of the different discussions that are going on here at The Reef Tank. I have some questions that I hope to find some answers to. I have a small 12 gallon saltwater tank with the following: Tomato Clown, Turbo snail, Star fish and some little...

i'VE JUST RECENTLY NOTICED VERY TINY SPIRAL LOOKING THINGS ALL OVER MY TANK. I ASKED A LFS OWNER ABOUT IT AND HE SAID THAT THEY WE'RE LITTLE BABY FEATHER DUSTERS. IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO THAT?

This is my first try at a Nano tank, and I'm finding it rather enjoyable. Set it up about a week and a half ago and so far I have 10lbs of LR, 1 Emerald Crab, 1 skunk Doty (sp) and a Cleaner Shrimp. What I'm wondering is if the lighting that came with the tank to bright, not bright enough, or...

New rock in tank, after 2 days these 3 things popped out. In image 1 there are 2 separate things, 1 pollupy thin and then those tube things. Image 2 it's red and in the center of the picture. All 3 are about the size of a pea, with the exception of the tubes which I did not see till I took that...

Basically if you want a real tank we have it. Includes many corals, fish and VERY NICE live rock. We have over 200lbs of the live rock. Three different kinds of mushrooms (some are about 4 inches in diameter), devils hand, 4 or 5 feather dusters on one rock. Open and closed brain. The open...

Hey folks I got a rock only tank. I was wondering how many hours per day of lighting to keep the purple coral algae happy. It also has; seabae clown pink damsel blue damsel big chocolate chip star 2 baby feather dusters zebra mat and 3 EVIL peppermint shrimp Thanks for your input Adam Gold

I just got a red/white and a purple/white feather duster. My question is, right now I dont have sand because I am in the process of adding it into the tank. But how do I go about ading them to my live rock ? Do I just put them in a hole in the live rock or what ?? Any help would be appriciated...

I got new live rock... there is some hitchikers on it--- 1- a few colonies , up to 15 in the same colonie, of these 1/4 inch tubes , brown in color, with fine hairs at the end, kind of look like some polyps. i touched them with a plastic spoon and -swoosh- the hairs and the insides of the...