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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.

Yard sale I find anything I don't need now someone does and when I need something I don't have it but someone else does and is not using

+1 - I bought a dental scrape to get under them and leverage them up. I had 100+'s on a frag - then about 20 grew back - then 5 more and now all gone

Just picked up a pair of black & white ocellaris from Almon last night - look great and he keeps them in rose bubble tip so they should acclimate quickly to your nem. Speaking of which - I keep a green bubble tip in a 30g with no skimmer and minimum filtration. 144w PC lights, light bioload, and consistent water changes seems to work so far. Anything other then a bubble tip might require more care and/or light so do your homework -not sure if clowns are at all picky of nems in captivity so don't bother with the academia. I have clowns separately hosting GBTA, Xenia, an eggcrate corner, and the overflow.

I think I might try urchins also - I gave mine away when I thought I was going acrylic.

I still think I have you beat.

So instead of the how here's the why: It's not the impurities that go into your tank each water change but the buildup of impurities that happens during top off replacement. And it's not so simple as if your tap water or RO water is low TDS then you should be fine. As evaporation takes out only pure water it leaves behind all the impurities. So if you put in 2 gallons of 20 TDS water top off water each week then in one month it's added up to 80 TDS added- now your water change would also have 20 TDS so not accounting for carbon, skimming, etc you will always be losing ground. Analogy could be that you buy 1 trunk full of groceries each week with lots of packaging and only eat the edible stuff. But you only take 1/2 trunk full of waste to the dump each month. What is your house gonna look like in several months? Buy a goat. Now you don't check TDS in your tank and it doesn't even mean that all the dissolved solids are bad but so many of our municipalities have inconsistent water quality that you are taking a huge risk. I used to use DI filtered well water (useless) for a FOWLR tank but had to switch to RODI when I added corals.

That's all you have? I have 2 rocks completely covered in it so much that it looks more like red hair algae. Only thing I have that touches it is emerald crabs and turbo snail. The nerites try but really just leave a path through it back to the glass they so love. Useless. If you have a sump I would put it down there with some hungry grazing inverts and they will take care of it.

Just did the same thing - used the dremel circular cutting wheels to cut and the sanding wheels to clean the edges. Best luck was that I could get the Dremel routing attachment guide to act as such for the cutting wheel since most of my cuts were near the edge.

US Plastic

If you don't mind buying your salt from a crab shack - I think it's $46 for a 200G box of RC Seamarket Seafood 8353 Ritchie Hwy Pasadena, MD