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Brian,it is a fact not a opinion- your animals are doing well now but how about a few years from now?-our small contained systems will not produce all the bacterial aggreates zoo/phyto plankton that the animals need for long term survival-hard to replicate the billions of gallons of water and...

Yep,got rid of mine! critters that you do not want in your coral" tank-add a falco hawkfish to that list,mithrax crabs, large hermits-all very adept at stealing your corals food! All corals need feeding!! photosyn only supplys 60/80% of nutritional needs, varys depending on species-feed them and...

I would worry about the branching hammer behind them! looks a bit mean (sweeper tent)

Sorry Sarah, I disagree all usa-California FWC section 8596-85986 article 19,you can look every state up and see regulations pertaining to marine life sales- We ship to 16 states-they are cracking down on undocumented marine life sales-they typically over look hobbyist sales but with economy...

Let me throw this out for the unaware there are stiff penaltys for selling marine life with out the proper license/permits-better off swapping- or donations-feds monitor these sites-I know!

Much like a bee sting if you are allergic, all euphyllia & caryophllia are top tier stingers and very aggressive they smell" other corals and will go after competitors seem to have a thing for favites, never under estimate there reach! a large anchor/hammer can extend sweepers out over 10" that...

pagoda cup?

looks like a carribean coralimorphian-nonzoo

phyllia-catala/eu

+1 Erin, closely related family-species level used old taxonomic refererance-

I agree with chuck78, hit or miss even for experianced keepers-not a reef" animal they inhabit grass flats that is the type of inviroment that they need to thrive and grow-they get large! even tho there in family euphyllia (frogspawn/hammer ect) any interaction between will prove fatal to the...

Ok, they sound like colonial tube worms-spiral shaped crowns?with the colors i think christmas tree love to see a pic! I think the most common ones for sale are from the family sabellidae those are the one i caution if the crown is more 1.5" in dia expect a short lifespan.I collected and sold...

Do you know anyone that has one in there system that has lived more than 24 months? anybody? and what species?

Tube worms can regrow there crowns a couple of times-the worm is downsizing becoming smaller to cope with the lack of food,plus the stress of nemo not helping.Honestly they are not for small systems-they do better in large established systems with working sand beds producing zooplankton and...

I tend to assume-not good-these are high maint corals need to be fed at least once a week, I feed mine silversides chopped up they are slow eaters -so if you have shrimp they will quickly learn pull the meal out of the gut cavitity of the coral- I have had remove my shrimps and a smart falco...

If its a long tentacle plate I would not worry to much they tend to stay put-as long as conditions suite them, they like lots of light! short tentacles are wanderers.They are beautiful corals and once happy in the system reproduce-a lot- also get very large!

Sen, a cubic inch of water with a specific gravity 1.026 weigths more than a cubic inch of water with a SG 1.023 the volume is same! SG is related to temp also, another variable-I know were your going with the refractometer but its a bit over complicated and not anymore accurate than knowing...

Amber, thats a large polyp stony coral- not related to mushroom (corallimorphians)-fungia/plate corals are motile and love to be on the substrate-motile means they can move! they can flip them selves over and climb small slopes- remember they are stinging cell animals so them bumping into other...

Thanks Biff, there would be a lot boats sinking in tampa if I was wrong!! John.

Probably because of lighting change-if they are foot cutting (pedal laceration) the clones will not always be the parent coloration you can have green striped and the babys' could blue spotted,brown, red ect.