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Added 40 minutes to my already normally crappy commute home to go to Ultragem in Burbank for the first time. Hours posted on Yelp and on the door say they're open until 9. I guess they mean Eastern time because I got there at 10 to 7 and no one was there. I called and left a message on their...

I still stress a lot about my tank so this was a good day. :) I got a Starry Blenny from Vivid on Sunday. I gambled and didn't QT him as 1) he was from Vivid and 2) after the QT crash a few weeks ago that killed 5 fish I'm reluctant to risk it (yet). He was VERY stressed at the store in his...

Want to add a few more, anyone seen any? Heading to the valley tomorrow but could head east later too :)

Rainbow Aquatics has a big, fat, healthy-looking mandarin. It won't eat anything frozen so I didn't take it home (my tank is too new). Someone go save it! :( Another week and I'm sure it will be dying like all the rest. Such a bummer.

First time using a QT and everything died. :( Just a 10g bare tank with two tiny baby clowns and 3 neon gobies. Everything was going fine for the last week, watching carefully for ammonia etc. Then Friday night I noticed the heater stopped working and the tank dropped to room temp. My boyfriend...

Broke down the BioCube 29 and looking to sell as a set: InTank Media Basket w/ flow diverter InTank Fuge Basket InTank Fish Guard Halogen fuge light w/ extra bulb AquaticLife 115 skimmer already modded $60 firm Plus if you buy the above I'll throw in the BioCube and Nanotuners 3-channel LED...

I have a bunch of blue-leg hermits and lately one of them has been bullying the others, holding down the smaller ones shell to shell, sometimes for hours. I figured it was just Thunderdome and stopped worrying about it. Well, tonight there was a spawning event and my tank is filled with...

Today's the day. New tank has been up and running for 3 weeks, is cycled and already exploding with pods (it's snowing on the glass). Parameters between the tanks are a close match and I'm just double-checking everything before I drain some water from the new tank and start transferring rock and...

The little emerald crab we got during the SPS Black Friday sale just gave birth. I was doing my semi-regular lights out stalking and saw her walking around with arms raised; a couple of minutes later I saw her standing at the very top of an orange digitata frag, again with arms raised... Just as...

So last night was the first time we've had power outages since I set up the tank... We don't have GFCI outlets so I bought the Tripp Lite GFCI strip recommended on one of the BRSTV videos. It's been working great, until last night when the lights flickered on 4 separate occasions and each time...

I just went to check the skimmer and saw water all over the front of the tank... And the eurobrace... And the stand... And the tile floor... And even some on the Kessils... We'll see if the cat ever goes up there again :D

My 29g has flatworms (the tiny little non-AEFW kind). They're not out of control yet, I think my Royal Gramma gets a lot of them, but they're there and I'd like to not move them into my new 65g. I was thinking of treating the 29g right before the move to the new tank and instead of dealing with...

I wanted to throw a trochus in the fuge in the new tank and was using tongs to get one off the rocks in the old tank... I pulled his shell right off. I feel terrible. :( Why didn't he let go?!?!

My boyfriend and I were cleaning up from dinner when we both got text messages that the temp in the tank had reached 82 degrees (~3-4 higher than normal). We found the tank dark with the lights out and running hot. Turns out the connector for the fan for the lights had gotten disconnected, the...

My 65g has been filled for 9 days - yay! It's still cycling and I'm still tweaking things (I have a love/hate with the skimmer) and the plumbing has been re-done twice but I think it's good now. I'm adding ammonia, fish food, and bacteria to cycle it. There's a foam/rock wall in the back and a...

I have been trying to figure out how to do moonlighting with two Kessils mounted to EMT conduit and here it is! It's a cheap 10-led USB light from eBay; it has about 10" of gooseneck. It was too bright and white so I added a strip of blue vinyl over 9 of the LEDs (I might re-do this so the...

I have a baby sea cucumber hitchhiker that I first saw a couple of months ago as a tiny green thing that disappeared into the rocks. A few days ago I saw it again; it's about 1.25" now and has been living in the LR and only coming out at night to be seen by flashlight. Lo and behold, I found...

So my new tank is ready to go but it will be another 2 weeks now before it's plumbed and filled because I couldn't get my boyfriend to make the light mounts (bent conduit for Kessils) even though I've been nagging for weeks (or maybe I didn't nag hard enough..). Now he gets that he was the...

Such great deals on livestock but I can't buy anything because my new tank isn't set up yet and I need to keep my QT empty to hold everything from the DT during the move... So unfair! :doh:

Found this little nubby thing in the bag with a bunch of hermits from LFS, glued it to a rock, and voila! A bouncing baby Kenya Tree! Been in my tank for about 2 weeks and is thriving, but I don't want it. Pickup in Tujunga, free but if you have a piece of dead rock I could use it for a...