HI, I've just recently started my first salt water tank and have a 29 gallon Biocube. Yesterday I noticed a small (about the size of a grain of rice) and translucent thing crawling on one of my rocks. Today I noticed two of them now darker and a little larger in size on my wall of my aquarium. I...

I think I have baby peppermint shrimp living in my skimmer, a remora HOB. Right now there are about 15-20 of them. They aren't much bigger than copepods, but they definitely look like shrimp. Anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? I can't set up another tank in my apartment, no...

so my male just released his first baby, i grabbed it with a turkey baster and placed him in my in tank breeder box. im currently in the process of setting up a tank dedicated to the bangaii pair for future breeding, but i am woefully unprepared for this brood. im also currently(as in right...

Just a FYI, here is my method for alway having fresh live food.. I have a 20 gal that I put $15 of brine in. It has a double back hang on filter with a sponge on teh intake (Must clean once per week. I keep a small layer of crshed coral on teh bottom to maintain ph.. or put it in a mesh sack...

What are the odds of 3 baby peppermint shrimp to survive in a reef tank with 4 clowns? I just bought a peppermint shrimp and to my surprise there was 3 babies in the bag with it. What is your opinion on survival? Thanks

Okay, I have what appears to be babies in my tank, and I have no idea from what. I have only Emeralds, Hermits, Snails, and Corals. No fish. Yet I have what appears to be baby somethings in my tank at work. It is a small tank, and these are not pods. I don't get it. At first I thought...

Bi-weekly Discussion of the week(s) Inverts--Crabs pt.1 Inverts make a great addition to our tanks.They are just one more thing to keep us mesmirized for hours ;) . What is an Invert? what are some of the common Inverts we have in our tanks?

OK, this is a new one for me. I got this monti cap. frag from Dwayne in December. I just noticed a couple "melting" spots on it. Everything else looks good in my tank except this. It was fine last night and I just noticed it. Anyone ever have this happen? Should I get it out? It's...

This should be a fun one. We have done this a while ago, but I think a lot has changed since the last time we talked about these. What are these used for? Do they do any good? What is one? How do you plumb one? Wow the list goes on. :D G~

One of the coolest lookin fish I have ever seen. Red, blue, green, purple, black, white, orange, yellow mix with a great pattern. Much better looking than a Sixline. It also buries itself in the sand at night. **Reefsafe except for with baby Peppermint shrimp and lettuce nudis.** Sorry, no...

I just got home and stared in to my tank with my flashlight..well...all of the sudden something in the water caught my attention...so I focused the beam at it..then I saw another, and another.. they were everywhere in the front corner of my tank.. so, I got out my magnifying lens...took...

hi everyone, so many questions, but you guys always seem to know the answers.. i have a fine aragonite sandbed and its always brown where the light is exposed to it and constantly producing air bubbles, it just looks so ugly having a dirty sandbed, the tank is about 1yr old, its 6ft and 160...

Jenn, My seahorses are on their way. I have been cycling my tank for over 7 weeks now. (Chemistry is stable and first time I have ever seen zero nitrates). It is chock full of copepods and ampods. I have started my brine shrimp rearing tanks last nite. (Gallon jars with air). I have also...

Alright folks as personally requested by Galleon this weeks topic id DSB's and Plenums. This has the chance to be a great topic and a strong debate. So lets hear it. How do u set up a DSB, what shows you its working, are plenums worth the hassle or do they perfom the same job. Whats important in...

Ok by popular demand this weeks topic is Refugiums. Big ones, little ones, skinny ones and fat ones. Lets here some info, ideas and concepts. How to plumb them? Does it need a DSB? What do u put in one? How big does it have to be? What does it do? how did u plumb yours? and the most important...

I've been studying saltwater setups for the last 6 months and am getting real close to putting something together now that I think I know about 1% of the info out there :) . My question about the refugium is this: Will the pump kill most/all of the pods that are raised in the refugium? Thanks...

I've been doing some night time searching on my tanks lately and I've noticed that all of my tanks have a population of baby peppermint shrimps, even the 10G nano and my sump... :dance: The largest I've seen so far are about 1/4"-1/2" long. In my main tank there has to be at least 50 of them...

Here's a new pic of my larger refugium, the pods refugium... :D :funny: Now that it's starting to get some age to it, it's starting to look pretty nice.

I was watching my 10G tank when one of the peppermint shrimp decided to let the babies go. It crawled towards the top of one of the pieces of LR and suddenly swam staight up, looked like it was trying to jump out of the tank, then suddenly the tank was full of baby shrimp. It was great, there...

I updated my Tank Specs with new picsof the tank as well as some of it's inhabitants. :D