Hilary

Oh that's excellent news - thanks all! Of course, I'm the one who had the acro-eating clown gobies, so I don't always have the best of luck, but sounds like it's worth a try! Now to decide what kinds I want.....

Between my copperband and the peppermints my aiptasia was also wiped out. I was lucky - my copperband was eating frozen brine and mysis immediately, but when I first got it Martin advised me to make sure I had a good pod population and to feed live supplemented brine shrimp.

I would love to add an angel and/or rabbit to my tank, but am getting contradictory information about how safe they are. Most sources indicate that they can't be trusted (well, "with caution") with a reef tank, but others indicate that they're ok as long as they're well-fed. I also see that a number of WAMAS members have various rabbitfish as well as coral beauties and flame angels. I have a 90 gallon with clams, softies, LPS and SPS. Experiences?

I've heard of them nipping at clams and eating featherdusters, but in two months I haven't had any problems with mine - model citizen!

Here's the link to the Reefkeeping article. Interesting.

Wow Bob, glad to hear everything's ok despite the all-day outage! I guess I really ought to start making contingency plans for the season!

Congrats, Gio! Can't wait to see what you do with the tank!

Well, as some of you know I've been trying to catch evil goby #2, who so far had turned out to be a lot smarter than I am. Read this post today and decided to give it a try, though had to use frozen brine since I don't have live. Took several hours, but I just kept an eye on it and sure enough, curiousity finally won out and evil goby #2 has been nabbed! Of course, none of the other fish paid the bag any attention whatsoever, but I did put it right next to the goby's favorite place to hang out. Woo hoo!

I heard that it will jack up nitrates? I can't confirm, but that was the advice I received from somebody (and was seconded by somebody else).

Hey, my aiptasia finally lost. The big one that survived countless attacks with Joe's Juice and strong kalk, as well as all of the small guys who were multiplying, suddenly disappeared when I added the "pack" of peppermints! Bob, if you find that list, I would love to see it! (I'm every hopeful that someday my frags will be large enough to worry about these things.)

You told me I'd want to upgrade within 6 months!

I can run two DC8s off one AC Jr, correct?

Hey, give them a chance to get home from work and check the forum!

I've stopped by several times. Every time there are more fish (as he's finished his tanks and quarantine setup), and more corals, which are a nice mix of basics and some very cool stuff. He has a nice selection of frozen foods, and has been very willing to "talk tanks" and let me pick his brain. I'll be back!

Granted I haven't had mine for very long, but so far they're doing great just in the sand in my tank. I've read that they don't like extremely strong lightling so mine are all close to rock. So far, so good!

I've bought four from different WAMAS members. Love them!

Has anybody else had problems with having wrasse in the tank making them even nuttier? I've been thinking of adding a male and harem of flasher wrasse, but will go with chromis or anthias if that will drive my firefish crazy. (Hope this still remains within the subject of the thread.)

Ack! Didn't notice it was a link! WAY too funny! (And I've lived there, so am allowed to laugh!)

I'll make the joke clear. It obviously didn't come from Ohio (or Virginia, or Maryland, or....). Gee.

Ah, point of the joke was that it obviously DIDN'T come from Ohio. Guess I need to be more clear next time......

Maybe that's how folks talk/spell in, um, Ohio.......?

Grounding probe + GFCI for me.

I have two, and they're always side-by-side. In the wild I always see them in pairs - never more, never less.

Maybe you can run a "group sell" - anybody want some clown gobies?

Wow, Eric, I'm glad you posted this! I've been wondering how I've been killing my new SPSs - not all, just some. They'd been bleaching out from the base up, and I figured it's because I'm new and obviously doing something wrong even though the water parameters are good and they get good light. Then I read your post and looked up to see my yellow clown goby snacking away on a new acro that had suddenly started bleaching today. Little snot..... I moved it to the sand and he followed it down, so it's now set right in front of my 5-6" watchman's burrow - he doesn't let anybody get too close. Of course, now a new "snack" will just be selected..... Onux, mine aren't as aggressive about eating as their tankmates, but like everybody else they will go after the frozen brine shrimp. Good luck!