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  1. Crowded Reefs and Stinging

    Okay - I notice the beautiful postings of fully populated and crowded reef tanks - dont you experiences problems with corals stinging other nearby corals. I have lost a spaghetti leather and a colt to stinging by hammer and or galaxea when I thought there was significant distance between them...
  2. What Happened to My Spaghetti Leather?

    Have (had?) a beautiful creamy white spaghetti leather which grew rapidly and became the showpiece of my tank. Noticed this morning it was slumped over badly and appear to be losing some of its flesh - put my hands in the tank to move it - before I did that though, I sort of whisked the water...
  3. Damsel - Should I do it?

    Want to add a yellowtail blue damsel for the blue color to my 72g reef. Currently have: - Yellow tang - Solarensis Wrasse - Bartlett Anthias - Perc Clown - Blackcap Basslet Everyone gets along great and no one is agressive. I really want the blue coloration and the damsel is small (in terms...
  4. Damn Crab Ate My Prize Hammer Coral - Help

    Had a beautiful 7" lime green hammer coral that was home to my perc. Noticed the polyps werent extending and some were even 'disappearing' - notice a tiny light ugly crab eating the polyps one day - was able to chase him away with a feeding stick. So it looks like the showcase coral of my...
  5. Yellow Tang Eating Cleaner Shrimp?

    OK - so I had 2 cleaner shrimp go missing a few weeks ago. Today I added 2 new cleaner shrimp and a blood shrimp to my 75g. Come back about an hour later to see my yellow tang, solarensis wrasse and 6 line wrasse going to town on one of the cleaners. They tore it apart - saw the blood shrimp...

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