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I was thinking with all the weight on the rim, the foam wouldn't do a whole lot. Thanks for the input guys, don't need to flood the basement with a busted tank.

I am putting a 220 gallon tank in a wall, and had a stand custom built. The stand has a flat top on it built out of 2" wood. 2" wood has slight variations in it so the bottom frame/rim on the tank does not sit flat along the width of the tank. Should I try to plain the variation out of it or will putting foam under it solve the problem?

They are beautiful fish, especially once one becomes a supermale. Had a pair awhile back. Personally, I find the Lineatus wrasse much prettier than the rhomboid wrasse.

How often did you feed it krill? Krill fed as a regular staple can lead to lockjaw as krill is nutritionally deficient. Usually, it is often to late to do much once the signs start occuring. Hopefully, this isn't the case. I would contact Kelly Jedlicki (Puffer Queen) over at Marine Depot forums, as she is the one that has linked krill to this problem in predatory fish.

The golden astreas sold by reeftopia.com.

I would use a variety of snails, smaller Trochus/Turbo species, Astrea (there are some species that can right themselves when flipped over on sand), nerites, ceriths, nassarius(carrion eaters), stomatella, collonista(mini turbos), and collumbelid(listed as strombus grazers from Indo-pacific sea farms) snails. The last 3 species reproduce readily in home aquaria.

I hear ya, some of the LFS stores around here mix them up as well. I don't know if they have fixed it or not, but Petsolutions.com has a pic of L. carmabi when in fact what they are selling is L. swalesi.

Chubakah, Liopropoma carmabi (candy basslet found in the tropical Atlantic the one Vicskimmr is looking for) and Liopropoma swalesi (Swalesi/Pacific candy basslet) look similar but are not the same fish. They can be easily mistaken, but one occurs in the Pacific the other in the Atlantic.

I had been looking for one of those for years and never could find one. I thought I had a lead on one at Sea Save in Glen Burnie, but it was the swalesi basslet they mixed up with the candy basslet (Liopropoma carmabi). Hopefully, whenever I get back in to the hobby in the future they'll be easier to find as they are a beautiful fish. I would keep them in a smaller tank if you do find one as the Liopropoma sp. are incredibly shy and may rarely be seen in a large tank with alot of hidey holes.

I had one for roughly 2 years in one of my tanks, awhile back. At the time I got the goby the tank had a decent amount of hair algae. After about a year the hair algae disappeared after this the goby got skinnier and eventually disappeared. This was even with a well established DSB and refugium, back when I got it I had read they need a decent amount of hair algae to survive, ime at least this seems to hold true. Also as others said it never would eat any prepared foods. Now if you can find one that eats prepared foods then you would be golden.

I agree with the others, female tomatoes can be extremely aggressive especially with an anemone present or if the pair start spawning. I've had to remove all other livestock from one of my tanks when I had a pair of tomatoes start breeding, as the female would endlessly harass all other tank occupants even ones 2-3 times her size. It could also be the cherub angel they have a reputation for being very nasty fish.

Cliff, They get around 2-2.5", so they would be a tasty snack for any fish with a bigmouth.

Glad to see the basslet is doing well and went to a good home. They are by nature a very shy fish, pretty much never leaving the tunnels/caves in the live rock other than to dash out and grab some food.

James, When I did my water changes it would drop my ph at most .02 or .03 if at all, using IO salt. Always kept the lid on the trashcan in the back room as well with a powerhead and heater. Bad batch of salt? Is the alk low in the freshly made water? I battled low ph issues due to CO2(tank in the basement) until I started adding kalk all the time with the auto-top off. Otherwise my ph overnight would get down into the low 7's.

Unfortunately, not off the top of my head, I have an article bookmarked or a book at home somewhere(on vacation at the moment) I'll see if I can find it when I get home. There are temperate areas on the Pacific side of Mexico where some turbos are collected. Killing snails isn't the reason I don't keep hermits in my tank, if that was it then I would keep them. I don't keep them because they eat the fauna in the sandbed and on the live rock along with the algae they pick it. As for the small hermits being the only cleaners that can get into small cracks to eat hair algae....collonista, collumbelid, and rissoid snails are far and away smaller than any hermits especially when young and will serve the same puprose getting in tight space to eat nuisance algae. I prefer to have a clean up crew that cleans up and doesn't eat other beneficial critters in my tanks, since the fish do a good enough job on there own in that respect especially since I run a DSB. Illyanassa obsoleta or whatever they are called are temperate snails and live shortened lives in our reef tanks and are predators on other snails as well as sand bed fauna. However, I would imagine as they die they do serve as an easy inexpensive meal for hermits. Get on Reefkeeping.com and do a search on Illyanassa obsoleta there is a good article on 'em.