Have You Received Any Spam Private Messages?

I would like to know if any of you have received unexpected PMs from a member you don't know that might be considered spam -- anything that includes a solicitation of any sort to visit another site of any sort.

The reason I ask is because at this very moment I see that more than a dozen members who are online right now are reading PMs from the same person -- a member who joined back on March 4, 2010 but who has never posted to the board. This member's board name begins with 'S' and ends with 'y.'

Please post your comments to this thread, or, if you prefer, you can send me a PM telling me about it.

Thanks!

P.S. -- I have already banned several new board members whose only purpose in registering was to spam thousands of other members with unwanted solicitations. Usually those members were uncovered because they sent out the spam immediately after registering.

I have had this bubble tip anemone in my tank for about 3 months. I got a new light before I went on vacation in July. The anemone was fine before I left and put the new light in. Now it is completely bleach and all scrunched up its about the size of a dime when closed, It is still attached and the clowns are still going in it. so I know it is still alive. When the moon lights come on it looks better and opens to about a size of a quarter. I dont know what to do with it. Im go to attach before and now pics any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

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Well another noob questions from Uncle Nobb (yeah that's me).

I've been having water clarity issues and have been trying to figure out why. Even if I do a water change, it still stays milky. One of the thoughts is that I'm overfeeding but we will get to that in a second.

Here's the tank set up.
29 gal, T5 96 watt system with 2 10k and 2 50/50's, AquaC Remora skimmer (only been running for about 4 days now), and Aquaclear HOB filter (rated for 50 gal tank). I have 2 pumps (rated for 30 gal tank each - can't remember name brand) on each side of the tank to give flow and as far as I can tell, no real dead spots.

Population: I have 2 clowns, 1 tailspot blenny and 2 firefish. Clen up crew is 4 blue legged crabs, 2 scarlet crabs, 2 turbo snails, 4 nassers (I know I need more), and 4 troch snails.

So the water has a nice milky color to it and has for weeks now. I was hoping it would go away with my weekly water changes and I've even stepped up to 50% changes to see if that would help. It hasn't. I use distilled water with Marineland salt and the salinity has been holding right around 1.021.

Ammonia doesn't register on my kit, although I had a small spike about 2 weeks ago, no nitrite, nitrates sitting around 10, PH was at 8.6 last I checked.

I did have a fish "disappear" a few weeks back and I'm assuming he bit it inside a rock and I can't get to it but again, haven't seen any recent increase in ammonia.

No real algae problems to speak of, I do have some green that I clean off the glass but nothing hairy. I did notice a few very small red spots in my sand today under the surface which got me a bit concerned.

This has me thinking that I'm over feeding since my water won't clear up. I feed twice a day, same time every day. I use mysis to feed everyone and every blue moon, I'll toss in some pellet food mix things up. The mysis is in cubes that I cut into quarters. It seems like a fair amount to me but if I cut it in eighths, it seems like too little and it drops to the bottom before some of my fish even get to eat. I know the rule of thumb is feed them what they can eat in one minute. Should I be feeding them a very small amount, let it float way or be eaten then do it again instead of all in one dump?

Any thoughts, harsh critiques, words of wisdom or just general "go get help" statements would be greatly appreciated.

My Toadstool mushroom coral has had a bit of hes old skin he shedded off stuck to him for more than 3 weeks now, would manually taking it off hurt him?

San Francisco Startup Company is Making Nano Tanks for Pet Jellyfish

Link to the video is here: San Francisco man selling jellyfish as a household pet | abc7news.com

What do the reefers think?

So I was winding down the day with a few drinks and decided this would be the perfect time to clean the algae off the sides of my acrylic tank... :party: All was well until I noticed that I didn't notice I had picked up a grain of sand when cleaning the side of the tank. I finally realized it after 4 or 5 inch scratch was following my Mag Float." Son of a :censored: !" I yelled. After a few mins of coping with my unfortunate incident, I shrugged it off and removed the sand from the cleaning surface and continued cleaning away. It wasn't until a few more sips of the good ole sauce and cleaning the other two sides when I noticed that I must have transfered the grain of sand to the other half of the Mag Float because now I have scratches all over the outside of the tank!:smash:
SON OF A..... well, you get the point. I should have left the algae or the booze alone. But then again, what's a party without algae or booze right?

Does anyone know the scientific name for these? Some pretty xenia-like corals that my LFS said were long stem xenia.

I have a 110 gallon reef tank with LPS and SPS corals. I`m thinking of starting to dose Grotech A,B,C. I hear very good results from it and great colors expecially with SPS corals.

Please let me know your opinions about it.

I havent seen anything in the stickies or thread about this so im just curious as to what all of you do.
We all stick our hands and arms in our tanks for feeding,cleaning...what do you do before you go in? do you wash, with what? do you glove? I ask this because i know there are phosphates and other contaminants in alot of the soaps we use, when we stick our arms in our tanks without somekind of prep, we may be adding something harmful to our tanks. germs,chems,dirt,sweat.......

i have set up my rena aqualife 450L 3 days ago. I ran r/o water for 2 days prior to adding salt, sand bed and living sand, no rock as yet.
i tested the water today for salt level 1.024, nitrate, nitrite, amonia, calcium and phosphate. all came back very good. How long before i can add anything????????
my water suggests it good now, but don't want to chance it.

This is a test.

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Okay, let's see if those stay put or not.

P.S. -- This is an edit. Let's see what happens now.

P.P.S. -- This is a second edit just to see if anything else changes.

P.P.P.S. -- This is the third edit. I expect that the third percent sign will now go kaput. That will leave only two percent signs.

well i have gone a brought a new tank its a rio 300 it is second hand but can't moan for 80 quid just needs a good clean. project is going to be very slow

Has anyone else had dealings with these guys before? Op, please let me know if I'm in the wrong place to post this. I just want to see if I'm alone in feeling screwed over by these guys. They send stuff out in bags that are impossible to acclimate corals, the coral frags are too small to even be sold at that stage (including still being rubber banded to the rock because they won't stay on their own!), and the quality is HORRIBLE. I certainly won't be dealing with them again but I want to see if anyone else has had any GOOD experiences with them. Is this common for these guys?

I've got a silly question, but these are the sorts of things that keep me up at night wondering. I understand the "cat eye" common name for some Zoanthus species, but does anyone have a clue what makes a zoo a "people eater?":thinking:

We have 2 pepperming shrimp in our reef tank that have been in our tank for about 1.5 months and we just introduced some small nerite snails. One snail started going towards the cave the shrimp like and we saw the shrimp go at it and drag it in. We can sort of see it picking at it and it has left the shell inside and came out looking for another one. It didnt find one so it went back to the one it has already. Is it killing it? We are not sure what to do