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cs-2 has proven graceful for my 180G Lionfish sp tank

reef? FOWLR? these thing make a difference. activity level? max size? filtration? feeding regiment? depending on the level of coral and other inverts that depend on dissolved nutrient, you should not have a problem. change the setting left or right, change the filtation up or down

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i hate to disagree, but the toadstool or Sarcophyton spp. has a max size of about 12" and requires a very strong amount of lighting. In terms of....................everything else....yes they are easy. but these are invertibrates......they are sensitive and have long life spans. I personally...

Dmattt........you got it...... that being said, look into Clavularia and Xenia. They are easily captive propagated and are more hardy tht way. they readily reproduce and harbor zooxanthellae as their main source of sustanance. That as wwell as Discosoma and Rhodactis mushrooms. Discosoma are...

ABBBSOLUTELY!!! test for amonia as well as nitrates!!!! ASAP! for your future info, they now make very convenient cultures of nitrifying bacteria that are very efficient at cycling a tank within 1-3 days depending on the brand. in the intitial setup of any tank its goping to be extremely...

ATTTT: DMATT: what kind of frags are you keeping in the 270? Soft or Hards? Both??!!? Lol!! I need some Zooas for my newest 12G nanoreef.........obviously depending on location! James

like i said earlier, the Lysmata and Stenopus are not considered aggresive anaimals. however you must know that these animals provide a service and in a smaller tank they are going to be extremely aggresive or terrritorial towards other species or same sex same species of shrimp. Like i said...

not reccomended in a smaller tank most deifnatelty. it could work in the right conditions with the right rockwork and territorial zones but the coral banded Stenopus hispidus is a verrry hardy fish. in my experince, they will snatch up small resting fish in smaller tanks. however, in big tanks...

argh! these damn inverts!!! LOL i must say i am in the median of stoma and nudi. Matt88, you know just as well as I and all the George castanza marine biologists that the Nudibranchia are extremely difficult to determine in terms of taxonomic "value". Like i said, Im kind of in the middle. The...

i know the real aquarists will agree.............FIND OUT THE SPECIES NAME! it helps more than you would think

and the normal "cleaner shrimp" are most likely not the "peppermint shrimp" Lysmata wurdemanni. damn i think being a nerd and studying species names hath paid off lol. Seriously trhough, most likely you have the "skunk cleanr shrimp" Lysmata ambionensis which is going to have a larger max size...

well this is all going to matter on the size of the tank in question. while cleaner shrimp are not normally known to be agressive, they are somewhat territorial in that they set up "cleaning stations" that are familiar to fish. They can definately be agressive towards other species of Lysmata or...

that definatetly looks like stomatella to me and i must agree at first glance it resembles one of the many nudibranch species (one of the less colorful, if anything). stomatellla species are very efficient at algae control. i have acquired a few in one of my tanks a while back and they...

so what kind of tanks do you currenlty keep?

Well I am new to the forum thing. 22 years old. have been keeping FOWLR tanks for 13 years and Reef/invert tanks for 10. I am the aquatics specialist, aka: fish nerd minus the gills, at a LFS. Other than being the sole care-taker of 120 tanks at my job, i have been venturing into the nano scene...