Hello all, I found around 4-6 of these starfish in my tank and was hoping to get some kind of ID on them. Thank you

so whats the deal with it.. can someone explain.. all i hear is thats its just snake oil but some people say its a lifesaver.. so whats the real deal?

Hey. I have a 34 litre tank with quite a few different corals a couple of shrimp a banana wrasse and a nudibranch. I have just got home from work and noticed a layer of bubbles on the surface of my water. Does anyone know what this is?????

morning, I have noticed a colony of amphipods in my tank. I was told this ment my tank is dirty, is this true? are these types of pods good?

They look like snakes with little tentacles. They are hiding out in the filter area of my Biocube tank. They are growing pretty quick. Good Bad?

I noticed these white spaghetti looking things with purple tentacles on the ends growing long in the filter section of my biocube near my protein skimmer. LFS says might be spaghetti worms? Could this be? are they bad? Why are they not in my tank and hiding in the filter compartment? Please help.

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a great day! So my question. Week 3 running. I have the brown/rust fugly algae, I think the term is diatoms? K, so I also have, purple, dark red hard coraline algae, red leafy algae (not slime cyano), red spiky coral looking stuff, and I now have a...

I have foundwhile looking at night witha flashlight a long tuube like worm thing pertruding from my live rock. It seems to be "sniffing" around, I do not know if this is something I should try and remove or just leave it. I can not get a picture but if I were to describe it I would say it is...

Hi All, I am now in the process of looking for a new lfs. I was wanting to get the advice and opinions of everyone here at TRT. What makes a lfs good or for that matter bad. Wither it be personal experience or general rule of thumbs. What to look for and what to stay away from. Also if you have...

good morning, I'm new in this forum, I' m Italian so my english is not perfectly (and sometimes my english can be wrong) so you must be patient! ( for example, I don't know if this message is correct ;) ) please, tell my when I say something wrong, because I want learn the English...than at...

good morning, I'm new in the forum, and I 'm italian; and sometimes my english can be wrong,so you must be patient ! (for example i don 't know if this messagge is correct... :confused: )

A guy on craigslist is selling his 120 gallon aquarium with stand, lid, and lights for 250.00. He said hed give me 2 free powerheads, and the stand has holes in the back for a sump and what not. Here is the add: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/for/2549344886.html he said it has a crack taht...

Just wondering if there are any forms of algae that can be encourgaged in a saltwater aquarium. I am referring to the ones that look like plants. I think my tank will look a lot better with some. Will it also benefit by keeping nutrients down and providing oxygen?

So why does everyone say no to keeping Sandsifters? when almost every website out there says they eat detrius, algae, well pretty much omnivorous?

Picked up a pulsing xenia frag today at the LFS, acclimated it and set it in the tank during my trials of what i think the best spot for this I found this guy on the same piece. the tentacles aint the same as the pulsing xenia so i was wondering did I pick up the dreaded hydroid/Aiptasia...

Hey, anybody buy from mrcoral.com? Is their stuff healthy?

I'm a new reefer and I found what I would consider a bristle worm on the cheato in my refuge. I've read that most worms are typically ok as long as there are not too many, but that there are types that are not so good to have. Do I have a "good" bristle worm or a "bad" bristle worm?

This red algae has stared to grow kinda fast and is covering one of my fans and the outlet for my pump. I dont know if its good or bad. Is there something out there that will eat it to keep it under control? I have only a bio cube till I get more room for a bigger tank. I don't want to lose all...

Just wondering if anyone has ordered from these guys before? Stumbled across their site last night and looks like they've got some pretty nice stuff. Only $19.99 shipping in California and $29.99 everywhere else (FedEx Priority Overnight). Not bad pricing. Thought I might try them out but...

Does anyone have anything to say about aiptasia being OK in a tank? I am new to the aquarium and like the look of this critter but want to get more anemones. I have reads tons of people saying GET IT OUT! Then I read one person said he had it in his tank and it really wasn't an issue. Anyone...