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congrats. is one cigar per hatched baby clown?

I picked this up at Home Depot for $19 - works well with half on timer and half on the switch. Frankly I didn't set the timers at all and just press the mode button to turn the pumps off for feeding .. press it another 3 times to turn pumps back on. I'm a big fan of controllers simply for the timed feeding button. HD digital timer

+1 for StevieT larger then stock mediabasket + I like the larger blue filter pads as I cut them ahead of time to shape and are less messy to remove. Under that almost always carbon/chemi pure/ and if you want cheato and a velcro on light (LED closet lights have worked for me) I've seen several threads about high nitrates that were cleared up by removing live rock rumble - I know suggest if you have rumble in a fuge or somewhere you can have a clean up crew then cool - otherwise your display rock should be enough.

Isn't that just a prolonged acclimation?

With the tab cut I found the Media basket overflowed and too much went around it. Everything else sounds on track!

do break out the false floors, exacto off some of rear black vinyl and add a light and chaeto don't cut to enlarge the spill-over from chamber 1 to 2 also you can keep the water way above the max level I think you'll need additional fans cut into the back of the lid to handle the LED heat

Well all tangs aside my emerald crabs are tearing it up

Does everyone use glass vials and clean with RO water? My pre DI faucet has a TDS of 4 so I clean most vials with that.

Anyone have one and able to confirm it is accurate and easy to use/calibrate? http://premiumaquatics.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PA&Product_Code=HI-713&Category_Code=

well I picked up a 5 pack of emerald crabs and another turbo from Roozens today their urchins were $30 so I'll do that next - if the clean up crew doesn't clean the rock it's time to boil it and turn it into base rock since I started with 75% base rock a year ago in that tank and got up to 75% coralline coverage in 6months I am not concerned in going that route.

I found that turkeybasting the rocks and putting powerheads toward the offending areas worked like a charm -

I found that turkeybasting the rocks and putting powerheads toward the offending areas worked like a charm -

can't wait to get home to take and post a photo of my guest bathroom -umm "fish" bathroom

Tunze 9002 is readily avail used about $100

I have a 150w DE PFO reflector with 14k Phoenix and was getting up to great PAR on the bottom.. too much for some LPS and softies in the middle bottom but fine for lower light SPS such as Monti Digi I would say if you can get the groups PAR meter and confirm you have >100PAR near the bottom then you have some choices.