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Look at me, still alive and kicking! The threads linked above are a different magnifica. This magenta one was always that crazy great color on the base. Just the tentacles can shift color depending on conditions. It was intentionally fragged by me years ago...

Casey Dunn's Invertebrate Zoology class at Brown University is doing videos to inform the public about nifty oceany things. They are pretty cool: Mantis shrimp http://creaturecast.org/archives/2054-creaturecast-the-stomatopod-strike moreys http://vimeo.com/17295734

Wondering how they are doing.

Be sure, I'm not shooting anyone down for attempting a tough anemone. I've had my share and have tried to add to the hobby's knowledge base about them. I love the giganteas and magnificas specifically because they are not only beautiful, but we don't know much about them. I was interested in...

I really don't want to be a parade rainer, but be sure you look into the species. Without knowing if they do indeed have purple spots on the underside I can't be 100% sure , but I would 99% say those are both S. gigantea. Small purple dots would confirm it. They are probably the prettiest of...

The current shape of the anemone is probably due to the stress of being moved around. As it settles in (especially with some flow) the tentacles will stretch out.

Looks like a crispa to me (one of the anemones called an LTA) Here is a PDF anemone guide that has good ID pics http://www.carlosreef.com/download/fclick.php?1

With the school year just starting this is the busiest time of year for us.

I have never had that problem, but have never owned a foxface and I think they are more prone to be a reef problem. this old thread has some info and pics of some I had http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?91183-Two-large-rabbitfish-for-sale-So.-NH&highlight=rabbit

Get a little rabbit fish then sell it when it grows. They chow algae better than most tangs, but are far less swimmy and almost never agressive. very under rated reef fish. Gold spotteds are one of the best for algae eating and look pretty sharp too.

Look for greg hiller's thread about bristle worms and read steven Pro's article here (warning: yucky photos) http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-07/sp/feature/index.php

If anyone is interested in how this is turning out I have updated here: http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?20780-Aculeatus-Hatchlings&p=158279#post158279

I don't think the red background helps, but they look so octopusy.

PM back. You can see the size of what one grabbed in my photo. Maybe double the size of its eye. I do not know if it ate it.

Wow, hundreds of them now in the tank. Maybe close to 1000.

Aww, doesn't anyone want to give some of these guys a shot? It kills me to see so many zipping around the tank and changing colors when they see each other. They are so cute.

Many more hatching now, (and the peppermint shrimp just spawned, so it is getting confusing)

This species has never (yet) been raised. The octopuses that have pelagic (sp) young like this are really hard. I was not planning on collecting the babies, but I looked in and saw them today so I caught some for photos and tried feeding them the bugs that washed out of some macro algae. One...

You can see the chromatophores in some of these pics

That red algae is cotton candy algae with a tiny pod in it for a scale idea, they are about pinhead size. The brown in the photo is some sort of rotifer or something that the baby caught.