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Tangirl, It curls up day and night for two days already. The mushrooms have been next to the Xenia from day one. Therefore, I do not suspect the mushrooms. Thanks!

Hi, I started one stalk of Xenia several months ago in my 90G. It went very well and kept growing until few weeks ago, it splited into two. Suddenly two nights ago, the smaller stalk stops expanding. It shrinks into a very small pile. The bigger stalk, which is just next to the smaller one...

Thanks for all the replies! I learnt a lot. I have three pepermint shrimps for about 3 months and about 100lbs of live rocks. I saw some of the baby shrimps hidden in a patch of algae. I was going to remove the algae, but leaving that patch untouched. I want to see if some of the baby...

Hi, Tonight, I saw something interesting happened in my 90G. While I was cleaning off some algae, I saw one of the three pepermint shrimp dancing along the front glass. When I watched closely, I saw hundreds of little creatures around it. Those little creatures did look like baby shrimps...

Dave, I noticed that you live in Chicago area also. I don't want to mention the LFS name, but it does have a very professional look, and it sells SPS frags too. I don't want a single incident to ruin the LFS name. The lawnmower blenny died in my 20G quarantine tank after the first day. There...

Camel shrimp, I have similar lighting as yours. Mine is a 90G, two 96W PC's (10K & 6700) and two 55W actinic. My tanks is close to 6 months old, and I just started the first SPS, which is a green Montipora Digitate. I have a colt, Xenis, green polyps and few mushrooms. They all seem doing...

Thanks for the responses. To clarify a few points: 1. The dead blenny came from another local LFS, not Petco. The two from Petco are still alive, more than one week already. 2. Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate are all zero in the quarantine tank. Any more ideas for the death of the lawnmower blenny?

Hi all, I bought a lawnmower blenny from a lfs on Sunday afternoon and it died this evening. I put it in the 20G quarantine tank, where there were already two scooter blennies. The other two blennies were bought a week earlier from Petco, and are still alive and well. Anyone has any...

Those were the days. Brian, as I was told, was fired for over-committing (bend too much backwards) to the customers, and not following up his committments. I bought the 100gpd barracuda several months ago, dealing with Brian. There were numerous mistakes in the shipment. I don't want to...

Reefaddict, About 2 weeks ago, I was told that Brian no longer worked in Aqua FX. When did you last talked to him? I was given a TDS meter free by Aqua FX as some kind of compensation for numerous problems with my Barracuda. After using the Barracuda for about one month, making about 30...

I am running a Rio 1700 for my skimmer. Any bad stories on this model? I replaced my Rio 4100 few months ago, because of the unbearable noise. I am not sure if I should do the same to the Rio 1700.