Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / December 2003

Okay, so I understand now that the curing process is necessary to allow
the dead stuff on the rock to cycle away all the nasty things that
happen when it dies.
If I buy live rock from a reputable store, that has been properly cured

Does anyone know what kind of fish Deb is? She's the blue and white
striped fish in the dentist's tank. Some type of butterfly?

hello all, i'm loseing the fight against this stuff.every weekend i'm
siphoning this crap out of my 180, and about 4-5 days the stuff is makin
a comeback. i remove it from the substrate & LR then the tank looks good
4 a while but it's right back in no time. i feed every other day ...

Is it normal for a sebae anemone to shrink to about 1/3 the size from early
in the morning to about 30 minutes after the lights go on?
From what I'm reading I'm cruel to have a sebae as my first anemone because
I'm inexperienced...I was experimenting with water flow direction today ...

After about 20 years I am getting back into the marine aquarium hobby.
Wow have there been changes! Can anyone recommend a good book for
beginners?
Thanks,

Spike Ammonia (almost 2.0) and Nitrates (over 20) ????
125 gal reef with 40 gal sump... 120 lbs fiji, 120 lbs aragonite in
view tank 25 lbs crushed coral in sump/ Sump also has spaggetti /
grape and razor curlurpa. (Just added last week) Overflow is doing

I'm getting a lot of algae growth on my live sand, mostly an ugly brown but
some green and other colors.  I've heard that various sand-sifting organisms,
such as a sand-sifting starfish or sand-sifting cucumber, can help control
this algae growth on the sand.

Can somebody explain, or direct me to a good explanation of what the
DSB is?
This is the first time I've heard of it, and of the dangers of
disturbing it.  

I've had my SW tank set up for about a year.  A few weeks ago I started
noticing white worm-like organisms (?) on my live rock.  They don't appear
to move.  They vary from about 1/8 to one inch in length.
Also, on the tank glass, small white spiral-shaped creatures about 1/16"

Could somebody please recommend a good web site for identifying
organisms found in a reef tank?
I've found two very different organisms which are beyond my vocabulary
to describe.  I need some pictures to look at...

I have small BTA anemone in my tank and now it passed couple of days
after I put it there. I have placed it on the top of my rockwork
and it attached itself almost instantly. The same evening, when lights
went off, it started slowly crawling down. In the next day it stopped

How do I get an anemonie off of a rock. I have the rock sold to a friend but
my ritteri anemone climbed onto it and won't get off. Is there a simple and
safe way to pry it off?

Here's an interesting one...
I have a 75g reef been up for about 5 monts now.  60lbs LR & 4" DSB.
I use RO/DI water and I have had a handful of different algae outbreaks.
Now I have a DARK GREEN film that is growing on the sand and you can

Last week, my yellow tang that I`ve had for about 4 years, suddenly
appeared sick and I thought for sure was going to die. At one point I
thought he was dead! First he went to the top of the tank and just kept
crashing head first into the top like he was trying to get out, and I

Okay...  New Question:
I was looking in my tank today (as I do everyday), and I've noticed
some sort of organism I haven't seen before.  I think I haven't
noticed it because it's on a piece of the live rock I just rearranged.