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Twin spots do best in pairs but are still difficult to raise, they will eat most of the pods in a few weeks and must be fed live pods on a continual basis. You will need to add new load every two to three weeks. I had a pair of gobys that I kept for more than a year and they did very well...

By law your live fish store must take the little guy back at no cost to you. They generally will not pay you for the fish either, but they will resell the fish to a good home.

As long as the green hair algae isn't inhibiting the water flow i would leave it alone as the the nutrients in the water (phosphates and nitrates) will be consumed by the algae and that is a good thing. it should be easy to remove if it becomes to overgrown and an issue with water flow. As for...

Bristle worms are actually pretty good things to have in the aquarium. they will eat much of the food that falls into the rocks and will keep the rocks pretty healthy. There are many animals that will eat them but they generally will survive as it only take a small piece to have another worm...

I think we have all made some huge mistakes in this hobby, I don't think I have any as costly as you mentioned all at once at least but many that are costly in livestock; I had a pair of Maroon clowns, the male passed so now i want to find a mate for the female as she is still of breeding age, I...

emerald crabs are great for getting rid of the bubble algae problems. Tangs do a great job provided they can get to the bubbles and they are small enough to bit them, the only issue with a tang is that they bit them and then some of the insides escape into the tank and reestablish, if this...

Happy to see the great choice in coral, but what was the first choice in school? Always happy to know where the younger generation of the hobby is going to land with their education. And who will take care of the living reef while you are away?

I do think that LED's are the way of the future of this hobby, I didn't have much luck and it may have been that I entered the LED cycle just a bit early. I think I am going to wait a bit more before jumping back into the aquarium again, and when I do add them it will be as secondary lighting...

I used Aqua Beam Lighting, only after reading the entire article and talking with the company. At the time, there was only the Aqua Beam 1000 available, the Aqua Beam 1500 was new and was available by special order, so I ordered 3 there of these untis along with eight of the white and blue...

I would think that with a purple and yellow tang in the 750 tank you will be just fine. the tank is plenty large for the triggers to adjust and the tangs not to get to overly aggressive at first. eels are always a crap shoot as they will continue to grow in such a large tank.

Looking for some individuals that enjoy this hobby and would like to get together and chat. I think we have so much to learn from one another and what works and what does not work. By the way my name is actually Fred, Old Tom is a famous whale, for years gone by. LOL

May I take a moment to share my experience with LED lighting and my experience with my corals. I had 24 species of corals both soft and hard with several monti's growing in my tank. The cost of lighting was sky high so I invested $2,800 in the best LED Marine lighting at the time now this is...

Nassarius snail will eat small pellets of food off the bottom of the tank, remeber that they will bury themselves in the sand and like t come out at night. As for and nerite snail they will scavenge off the rock and wall of the aquarium, they are famous for crawling out of the tank in search of...

Mushrooms are almost always the first softies to be introduced, I think if you can get the mushrooms to grow then you have a good chance at success with other soft corals. Another good soft corals is the cabbage coral, the cabbage once established will seek out where it enjoys itself best, in my...

A few years back I was plagued with a datom over population in my tank, I thought I did everything to get rid of the stuff it was a chore, when I got a better protein skimmer one rated for a 380 gallon tank and I have a 180 gallon then I was free of the problem. the literature says they come...

Sounds like the yellow tang has established the tank as its territory. While the Foxface has toxic spines, the tang will still bully and eventually kill the fish, unfortunately tangs are very terratorial and any fish of similar size of shape will now be an issue. In my 180 gallon I have just...

Lesely: What a nice setup, and I must say very crisp and clean. I noticed that you have the two chambers one with sand and rock and one with just live rock. How does that work at keeping the nutrients low, ie nitrates and phosphates? Wondering why you didn't go with a macro algae in the third...

Nature's Ocean is a brand of live Bio Active live Aragonite Black sand. With about two pounds of sand per gallon in your tank you will have enough to cycle the tank in a week or so with the rock you want to "Bleach." From my experience, and again it is just a N of one bleaching is not a good...

That is a good question, I have a refugium that I use and I have never cleaned it, but wondering if people clean their sumps. I would guess it would depend on the tye of sump you have.

I do understand your disagreement, I too have used old sand and have rinsed the sand. from my experience and it is just my experience and a N of one that I would go with new sand and throw my old sand away. Old sand has some benefits no doubt, but the cost of rinsing out the debris is almost as...