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Awesome Kcco beer in the back ground there! Chive on!

Dry rock is by far the easiest and safest way. Cheaper too. What's the point of buying live rock to kill it all off.

If you have no Means of providing oxygen with a pump or air stone you can scoop water and pour it back in, over and over.

Looks great john, love the rock work.. I'll have to swing by and check it out .

Hey john, congrats on the new tank!

pm DaveS , I think he was looking for donations for the school tank. My advice, carefully research before making purchases.

This always make me thankful to have underground power. In 5 years here we've never lost power for longer than 3 hours. Good luck and glad to see you're prepared.

Drill everything. It looks much cleaner and it makes having a top/screen on your tank much easier.

You could try setting up a Xenia farm. They're known to have some good ability to take up nutrients. Just throwing it out there as it seems you've tried pretty much everything else. I feel for you, I've been fighting the endless phosphate battle. Good luck.

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Those fish aren't very active (as in not big water column swimmers). You also probably don't need 3 emerald crabs in a 38. The lawnmower blenny will probably continue to harass the firefish as well..

How can you be certain you don't have aiptasia in your sump and or overflow/plumbing.? Seems like a lot of work for something you still cant be sure of.

What are you trying to accomplish.?

It's probably getting stung by the hammer sweepers. They can reach out a good distance.

Most didn't. Most still don't.