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I've used one of these deco vases as a holder for feeders for my angler, but I wouldn't want to try it as a salt tank. In that small a volume of water, when something goes wrong it is really going to go wrong fast. The stock filter is fairly weak and it has to be primed to start pulling...

...only when being handled by completely irresponsible owners.....

Mine tried several different hosts until they settled into a large colt coral, they have used it as a home for the last 14 months. Prior they tried out mushrooms, a brain coral, a powerhead, an LTA, and a torch coral. HTH

Keeping other fish with them is tricky as they can swallow something almost twice their size. So you would need a fish that would stay somewhat larger than the angler. Some fish will mistake some of the frogfish as food and can injure it picking at it. Snails and hermits are okay with them...

I have a striated frog fish, is there something in particular you want to know?

Thanks folks, I apprecaite the kind thoughts!

Scott, This link has some good discussion of the workings of the beckett injector. http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-03/fm/ HTH

Based on research I did online, I would stay away from the CPR c-channel style overflow. Most of the folks I talked to had lost siphon on it more than once and had overflows. Wildcat is correct on the flow rate issue, but I would recommend that you look for a U-tube based overflow box. I've got...

As far as what makes aptasia thrive or appear, they can come into the tank on any rock, corals, or even plants that you add. They don't require anything really special to thrive and can survive conditions that kill most everything else in a tank. I've had them attach and live on macroalgae, the...

I've used it several times now and haven't observed any ill effects on any corals, fish, clams, or other inverts. I don't have any other anemones in the tank, I do have quite a few mushrooms of different types and they have never reacted at all to it.

If you are refering to the Joe's Juice product you don't actually inject the aptasia, you use the syringe supplied to squirt a little of the juice at the aptasia's mouth and they will suck it right in. Makes it a world easier to use than actually having to inject the little buggers. Some will...

My new green bubble

Kevin, The images were captured on September 23rd, 2002 using a Meade 10" LX200GPS with a SAC7b CCD camera and a Meade focal reducer. I haven't had a chance recently to get setup and use the scope, but I hope to soon. Somewhere at the house I have the locations on the shots and I'll post...

and one more

This one is from a couple years ago, haven't had good enough viewing weather here in awhile.