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Thanks for your replies, I guess it was stupid of me to put 240V through me, but really my question was has anyone else seen fish deaths through electric current, it's kind of strange because only half of my fish died.

My fish have been disappearing over the last month and I couldn't figure out why, my parameters were perfect and still are. Anyway I went on holiday ten days ago and when I came back the person looking after my aquarium reported getting electric shocks off it, I have never had this, but then...

Yes, they mainly come out at night, when you turn your lights on in the morning you have a good chance of seeing them go back into the rocks. Incidentally the lights on in the morning is a great time to see the life in your reef, it's quite amazing what you see scurrying back into their hidey...

Definitely not. I always leave the molts in the tank and have never seen a spike because of it.

Don't get a damsel, they are extremely aggressive. Grats on the hitch hiker :) Most bristle worms are harmless and good CUC members.

See my reply at http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/general-reef-aquarium-discussion/85820-brine-shrimp-question-2.html

OK, the facts on adult brine shrimp versus newborn: Adult: Protein 56.4 Lipid 11.8 Carbohydrate 12.1 Ash 17.4 New Born: Protein 52.2 Lipid 18.9 Carbohydrate 14.8 Ash 9.7 Source: Leger et al 1986 Not a great deal of difference wouldn't you say? I believe that...

Hmm, tricky as it is so small, if it is red gracillaria (which I think it may be). It is great food for vegetarian fish. So if you have any it will be eaten in hours. It does grow fast though

Yes, looks like it. I would personally try to remove as much as I can manually as your current fish won't eat it. It doesn't look bad though, some hermit crabs and many snails will eat hair algae, so your tiny CUC may finish the job for you.

Hi ACRAS, welcome to RS. Do you have any livestock apart from corals yet?

I have never had problems with mixing clownfish, although I have heard that tomatos can be aggressive to other clown species. I have had problems with damsels though, when they get bigger they can be real terrors.

100% I'd go for it

In answer to slfcaptain: No, it's an SPS, (my first BTW). Rufus: I don't use carbon, my filtration is all natural, I have a protein skimmer and live rock, and that's about it. I believe I have a great CUC. made up of conches, hermit crabs, shrimps and snails. My nitrates are never zero which is...

I have a filefish which does the job nicely, but I believe that not all filefish will eat aptasia, just as not all peppermint shrimp will.

Hi Rufus, I'd heard the same, that they can wage chemical warfare. I've not had any problem with the toadstools, they've grown really fast. I had the BTA first, bought about 6 months ago at a size of approx 2 inches across, and introduced the toadstools in November for the bottom one, and...