Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2006

My setup has been running for about a month now, and I am having
problems with 2 types of algae:
1) a fluorescent green algae on the glass and coral gravel (seems to be
subsiding this past week) is this slime algae? caused by high

Yeehaa!
Remember I asked about this not long ago? Well there is a guy who comes
to our town once a week selling fresh seafoods and I just spoke to him
this morning. Very nice guy and seemed to know exactly what I wanted. He

I recently installed a Red Sea Prizm Protein Skimmer.   This probably
sounds like a dumb questions but when the insuctions talk about  wet
vs. dry foam I have no idea what they are talking about.  All foam to
me is wet???   The instructions do not explain the difference just say

I am getting a dark red , almost crimson supstance growing on the substrate
in my tank. I can remove it by hand but it comes back i a couple of weeks.
When I remove the substance it takes the top layer of the substate with it,
kinda like rolling up a snowball. Any ideas what it ...

[Sorry for the double post - I cancelled the first one after I saw the
header was screwed up]
Hi All,
Has anyone else done business with aquadirect.com lately?  I recently made

Do you remember a while back I posted a link to a page
(http://goatdairying.com/fish/marine/live_rock_stuff/liverockstuff.html)
I made of my liverock stuff asking if anyone here could identify it?
Well I just went into my website stats and that page was viewed 110

Anyone in here have one set up?
7gal or smaller ?

I got a pair of these nudi's a week ago, rather than go through the
whole setup again, here's my post about them.
http://www.phishybusiness.co.uk/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,134/topic,379.0
My problem is having enough of the aiptasia to feed the baby nudi's

Hi again all,
I was wondering if you can tell me what your salt mix parameters are
BEFORE you add it to your tank? ie. Water tests done on made up water.
I've got to change my salt mix as I've been using Coralife and the Ca is

I tried to post this yesterday but some how messed it up. I recently
received a 50 gallon tank for X-mas. I having been keeping saltwater
tanks for about 8 years now, but they are all smaller Eclipse systems
(3-12 gallons). However, I am now out of my league with this new tank.

Are there safe and dangerous hermit crabs and if so how do you tell them
apart? I picked one up at the beach a couple of days ago and seriously
thought about bringing it home for my tank but changed my mind and
thought I'd ask here first.

I am trying to start a saltwater tank.  I have been keeping freshwater
for several years, and then had to leave the country for a while for a
job and took apart my tank giving away all the fish.  I am back now and
trying to start up a saltwater tank.  The question is I want a VERY

Here is a query - I have heard that you can kill fish by overfeeding.  I
never overfeed and my fish (who get fed different things about 3 times a
day) are always hungry when I feed them.  Now here is the thing - in the
wild they can eat all day if they like - so why dont all ...

This Yellow and Black clown fish that has killed at least 5 nice
anemones by molesting them to death finally met his match. Last weekend
I bought a large brown and white striped carpet anemone, for the first
time since i had this clown (2 years) it did not get close, and let the

Does anyone have some grape caulerpa (racemosa) that they would be
willing to ship? I am looking to seed my refugium to combat an algea
problem.
TIA