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The $80 starfish continues to live. I had to make some space in the refugium for it to get easier access to the sandbed, even though you'd think with five arms it could figure out how to push some leaves out of the way to get where it wants to go.





Here's the story of the original impulse buy, something very uncharacteristic ...

Has anyone heard of red bugs getting on monti's or is this a acro only pest or is there a similar pest to monti's

For the past 3-4 months ive been wanting,saving and researching to upgrade my skimmer. my tank is a 70g(85-90 total system) medium load. i wanted the biggest skimmer i could place in my sump and maybe still use if i upgrade. I first settled on octopus extreme 1000-sss, i tried to order it twice but everytime out of stock. So i got in touch with Mr. Tran of Socal Tropical Fish Outlet, after couple calls and emails he narrowed me down to bubble magus nac-7 and the cs-1. they are the same body with ...

Steve Weast's famous 850 gallon aquarium:
A masterpiece of negative space utilization.

If you read my blogs and articles on aquascaping, you hear me blabber on and on about the virtues of great rockwork, avoiding the uninspired rock wall configurations, the Golden Ratio, etc. Yet for all my talk about rockwork, I seem to have neglected the need to discuss what is known as “negative space” or “white space” in an aquascape

What ...