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Ohh, for the good ol' days...

Thanks guys, I have a buyer coming up today. Hopefully I can at least get everything alive unloaded before I leave.

My first ever BUMP....

Hey guys, Well, I'm heading off to university this fall and of course need to destroy my beloved tank. This is an ad I plan to post at various locations and what I'm wondering is whether you guys think the prices are reasonable or if I need to review them. I don't know as I've never really...

In my sig... "Un-Reef Safe" fish for reef tanks.

Actually malus are pretty much on par with the other Heteractis regarding stings. They pale in comparison to Stichodactyla (carpets), Cryptodendrum (pizzas), and to several other genera rarely kept in aquaria. All photosynthetic anemones seem to be capable of surviving on photosynthesis alone...

A number of damselfish regularly inhabit anemones. Dominos, which are almost identical to humbugs, will readily do so.

Forgot to add... magnificent animals and one of my favourite fish. They were the reason I wanted a SW tank in the first place. They are very intelligent, and their eyes are unbelievable, being capable of monocular or binocular vision.Their jaws are very powerful (have been bitten, so I know)...

Of the three Labroides dimidiatus (the one pictured) I have kept, two fed very well on frozen foods. They are not all that difficult to keep and they really are a fun fish to keep. Ironically, mine both perished during disease outbreaks. The other Labroides, of course, have a very poor...

I prefer to dodge the entire common name issue altogether by just referring to them as 'diodonts'. I bought mine fairly small, and he attacked hermit crabs at first until he began to accept food from me. They never nip corals and mine hasn't killed anything I know of, and this seems fairly...

Aiptasia (and majano for that matter) are valued by some people, me included, for the diversity and interest they add to a tank.

Probably a Dardanus of some sort. I have a Dardanus megistos in my sump. They are hardy and often personable but they are very powerful animals. Think of the problems that some people report with the dwarf hermits and multiply that by ten.

They apparently eat molluscs, fishes and crustaceans at night. Do try live foods, though do not allow the fish to become "hooked" on any freshwater-based foods. These will damage the liver in time. Just drop them in, probably. Also, these fish can reach two feet in length, and they do change...

Sarcophyton (toadstool leathers) shed a mucous layer every so often. During this time they look shriveled and dead. They will do this in the best of conditions, but it is most likely to occur when the environment changes.

They are usually only a threat to very small fish, and since this is a brackish tank there is no corals I presume. I am among those who like aiptasia and majano anemones in the reef tank, though I am not above obliterating them in order to give the corals they are stinging a chance to catch...

Some damselfish (e.g., Neoglyphidodon) regularly eat corals. Damselfish dentition is well capable of doing so. However, most of the time, if a damselfish attacks coral, they do so for territorial reasons or in order to expand their gardens. An example of the former would be when a clownfish...

The good news here is that it may be an aiptasia of some sort, and therefore rather easy to feed and take care of. Just give it a small bit of meaty food (seafood) every few days. The bad news is that of the anemones that are known to venture into brackish water, none grow very large. In fact...

Just to note... as per my own directions, I have successfully kept a diodont in a reef tank for around six months now with no issues. :hey:

Picasso triggers belong to the Rhinecanthus genus, all of which are similar regarding temperament. They are considered one of the less aggressive trigger genera. They can be kept in reef tanks if the stock is chosen carefully; mostly avoiding small or delicate fish and limiting cleanup crews to...

Well I suppose my years of reef-safeness "indoctrination" has done little to faze this forum. ;) Thalassoma do not eat corals. They simply do not form part of the fish's diet. These wrasses prey on crustaceans primarily, plus echinoderms and various molluscs, as well as small fish. Not all...

I kept my three G. tile with a group of peppermint shrimp more than a year ago. The shrimp mysteriously vanished a while after I dropped the moray's feeding to once per week. Granted they were also living with a small lagoon trigger, and they lived fine with the morays for more than six months...

I am not keeping my morays in my reef tank at the moment... they are in the sump. However, I am planning on putting them back in the main tank. In my opinion, they (the smaller/more docile/crustacean eating) make excellent reef tank inhabitants as they do not eat corals and if well fed usually...

Actually all Sarcophyton are mushroom shaped, not branched. Check out Sinularia or Lobophytum.

A long time ago I kept a widowed skunk cleaner in with four peppermint shrimps in a 20 gallon and they got along well enough. Remember that it is best to keep skunk cleaners as pairs (or more). Peppermints are best in groups. It helps improve their confidence, so they won't hide as much.

Actually, the blenny's actions may be territorial in nature... those two fish occupy similar ecological niches. I see the same behaviour from my Lieutenant Tang towards the Regal Tang. No harm done, though. If the blenny gets too "friendly" expect to see the tang's blades come out. An unlikely...

Black tang... Zebrasoma rostratum? Probably similar to others in this genus... meaning fairly hardy, not particularly prone to ich. Can't say I've kept a black tang, though.

There are many fish that are variously referred to as "worm goby". What sprung to mind first was the "Curious wormfish" Gunnelichthys curiosus. Another was the "Engineer Goby" Pholidichthys leucotaenia. Both should be fine, though a smaller/weaker specimen could possibly find itself becoming...

Should do fine. Remember to feed plenty. :good:

The bubble tips I keep are unbelievably resilient; I have one that for months was bleached, shrunk down to almost nothing (from starvation, not deflation), and constantly moving. It has since settled down, coloured up, and tripled in size. Has anything changed recently? Perhaps a new addition...

The fish is probably just being "moody". Mine will occasionally do bizarre things like that as well. They are tough, resilient and intelligent fish, and the odd fast won't hurt them. Wait a few days... he should return to normal. If he doesn't, then you may have a problem, and it may not be a...

"Spreading that"? You act like I'm some sort of agent, "spreading" evil propaganda. ;) I do admit I've come to like Apple over the past few years, but I don't think I'm that far into it yet... I want a laptop that is well capable of intense photo editing tasks (find myself needing this quite...

"Neon blue" damselfish... could these be one of the Neoglyphidodon species? If so, I wouldn't advise them at all. Quite mean, especially as adults. And they lose their colour. For that size tank I would recommend gobies or darters. Just as interesting and colourful but with almost none of the...

I'm gonna chime in with SkiFletch here. Another possibility is that you just ended up with bad stock, or that they died of shipping stress.

I want the 17'' MBP because I like the specs... a lot. I also like the design; sleek, strong and durable. It's something I could really get used to. There are also some editing programs for OSX that I really like, especially Aperture, which I would use regularly if my old computer didn't crash...

I just got into this sort of thing a little while ago and in my opinion 7 is probably the best OS available right now, if one overlooks it's "beta flaws". I would put it above Leopard by a small margin, which itself I would put above Vista by a small margin. I have used XP and Tiger as well as a...

Don't tell that to my puffer and diodont. I'd hate for them to find out that they aren't compatible with my maroon clown.

It would be best to have only one kind of anemone, and the bulb tip is the hardiest. Adding more than one species of anemone to any one closed system will trigger chemical warfare, and if they contact each other physically one (or both) will almost certainly die. Be sure that you have a strong...

I'd say that your current stocking idea would probably be plenty, if not a little much. Stock the tank with shrimps, corals, etcetera if it looks empty; they don't take up as much "space". :good: The puffer may, however, eat non-cleaner shrimps and a few other crustaceans.

Do be warned: they often seem to exact "revenge" for being sliced in half, the only way they know how: by multiplying and growing over all your more expensive corals. :D

Most older literature seems to claim they are hardy. Most internet references say they are not. They can get by for a long time with little or no food, and in tanks with lots of microfauna they may well be sustained.