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I thought i may be testing wrong so i brought a sample of water to my LFS and they tested it for me. They said it was in good condition, however it had a yellowish tint to it. The guy said never use distilled water and they may have caused the probmems. i'm ganna do 10g water changes each...

Ya, i put them in, and they seemed fine, started eating off the live rock, then they stopped moving their legs only moving their mouth, then they just stopped all together. Shortly after a hermit crab climbed onto them and thats when i relized they where dead cause there was no response to the...

Come to think of it, i did add the water that came with the fish into my tank (not really fish, just hermit crabs). That may have caused an increase in copper. As for inverts, the only inverts i had in the tank prior to the deaths was about 30-40 hermit crabs, 8 turbo snails, and the little...

Yep, bought it brand new over a year ago. And as for th water, i'm not sure what it's distilled in, i buy it from the store in plastic bottles.

any idea how the copper got in there? via food sourcce maybe? Been using flake food, same brand for over a year, i try not to over feed. Maybe in the filter media? Not sure, anyone know where it may have ccome from, and how to remove it? Oh, i use only distilled water btw, so i dont think...

Ok, so ive had this tank for over a year. Got a clown fish, damsel, and lawnmower blenny (had them since the tank was new, they are doing fine). Got about 30 crabs (30gal tank btw). So the other day i decide to buy some feather dusters and a few snails. So i put the feather dusters in and...

I got some kinda white looking flower things growing out of the sand only, not the LR. IT doesnlt look like Aiptasia to me, because it looks more like a plant than an anemone. However, it has a little tube that it sucks back into when a crab gets too close... is it Aiptasia or something worse...

I plan on moving in the next couple months, and i'm not sure how to move my tank. I have a 30 gal tank with 30 lbs of LR, 3 fish and about 30 little crabs. Would i need to save all the water since its already been cycled? Also, would the fish need to wait before going back into the tank after...

Can i have a link to a picture of one of these things?

I'm new to all this stuff so let me ask u a question: What exactly is a refugium? And do i need one on a 30gal tank?

well its about that color, however it grows up like a plant does, not just accross the surface of the rock

what is Aiptasia? can i get a link to a picture of it so that if it invades my tank, i will know what it is?

I've had this liverock for about 3 weeks now, it was uncured when i bought it, it cured in my tank... Anyway, the liverock seems to have redish purpleish coral growing on it, well it looks like coral, i doubt its algae becasue it has some structure to it, and looks like coral... IS this normal...

I bought 25 little hermet crabs, and like 5 turbo snails... The crabs are awsome, cleaning all the rocks and crawling all over looking really cool, but the Snails just sit there... They only seem to move when i turn off the lights, and only just a little bit. Is this normal behavior for turbo...

Well it doesnt seem a skimmer will fit onto my tank. There is a large top that is built onto the tank, that is where the filter is, and the skimmer would have no way of fitting on. I could use an internal skimmer but i was told that i would have to drain 3-4 inches of water from the top, and i...