CaptainRon

I just tried the links and they didn't work for me. Rats!

"Don't force it, use a bigger hammer!"

I think a 10G will be a great choice for a QT Ryan! My thoughts on your questions... 1. Sure, add whatever you like. Hiding spots made of PVC would be great and will make your new fishes confortable. 2. I guess play that by ear. I have a Loralia nano 450 and it the flow is very broad. Conversly I think a MJ900 will be way too much in a small 10G tank. If you want to try the 450 Nano let me know, I just use it mix salt water now so you're welcome to try it whenever you'd like. I don't think you'd need much more than this small pump, if anything for a QT but I don't have any direct experience to relay to you. 3. You could start of the tank now with the HOB filter (minus carbon). Drop a few flakes of food in there daily and it should be good to go by the time your new fishes get there. Put your PVC pieces in there as well. I'd get one of those amonia badges too. Good luck with your new system!

I dropped my MP10 so many times that the "cap" popped off the dry side. After having a look inside, I don't think that you'd have an issue and I see that you haven't. I'm sure you'll be good to go from here on out with it.

I think I remember a discussion about this somewhat recently with the consensis being that these little guys that live in the acros being harmless. My Dad has one in one of his corals that's never harmed anything, FWIW.

I was reading through updates there just yesterday. Very cool that the first set of eggs came in. Here's to many more

Quick, dump your current brand new LED systems, something else is out! Cool video though

Ditto, great overflow. Looking forward to seeing it wet.

I have a chunk of Red Dragon too - that one seems to grow pretty quickly! Delicate as can be though!

He said earlier today "There are 4 over the 72" tank and the total delay is 1 hour (20 minutes apart)"

Makes me wish I had a wider to tank to be able to implement this feature. I have the Maxspect P Series lights and they have the same feature (they call if Dawn/Dusk). But with a 30 inch cube, you don't notice it so much!

I saw someone already answered but thought I'd chime in too. Yep, you can knock those bottoms off - I doo all the time. If you already have those bone cutters, they'll work just fine. If not, I use a pair of dog nail clippers that works well on frag plugs and corals. You didn't ask but I'll mention how I glue down frags - use both putty epoxy and super glue. I'll put a thin layer of super glue on the frag plug, the a small amount of putty epoxy on the frag plug followed by another bit of super glue on the putty epoxy. Place your frag plug and most often if stays put very well. The best part is that the plugs will pop off pretty easy with a twist of a flat head screw driver if you decide you want to move the coral later. Tank is coming along nicely.

Unless you buy the Maxspect P Series that is even better then the Radions!

LOL you just beat me Max! I did mine on the cheap and it works great!

My drain line is a 1" pvc cut so that the water exits right at the sump water level. To silence it, I took a gallon vinegar jug, cut the bottom of it out, cut a couple small holes in the sloped area at the top, and opened the neck enough to fit the pvc pipe into it. Works like a champ and didn't cost me anything. I basically modified the idea from this thread on RC (Max pointed me to this - thanks Max!) This guy used PVC, but I didn't see why I couldn't do it cheaper - I did and it works great. The thread calls it a bubble killer, and it does help with bubbles, but the biggest improvement for me, and more importantly for my wife, was the dramatically more quiet sump!

Yes Tom, I am. I know my ORA Red Plannet looked mostly brown under the Sol Blues. You could see hints of a deep red/maroon in it, but it certainly looked mostly brown. Within a couple weeks of adding the Maxspects, it started to color up a lot - turned much more red and got the green highlights as well. I got a small frag of Copps' blueberry miagi tort and it wasn't colored up at all when I got it (not a knock on Copps, he told me it wasn't going to be colored up). I left it off to the side for a week or two to acclimate to the new lights then placed it top center of the tank and it too colored up very nicely in two weeks or so. So overall I'm very happy with them. They even similate passing clouds lol

Great looking fish. They're definately on the list of "would love to try one, one day"

I was in the area one night after they were closed - the store front they have now looked kinda small. With all the stuff they used to sell it didn't look like they had any room for any tanks. But I just took a peek in the window from my car and this was several weeks ago.

It looks like the standard algae cycle to me - park of the natural maturation process of the system. I wouldn't add much other than clean up crew at this point - at least that's what I did with my system when it looked similar and it all eventually just went away with normal tank husbandry. Let it ride!

Anyone that uses one of the highpowered lasers... just do your research and protect yourself and other reef inhabitants. Those things can instantly blind you at those close distances. Even a reflection can do some serious damage. Make sure you get the safety glasses and that no one else is in the room so they can't get hit by reflections. The lasers seem like they work if you can get to the base of the aiptasia from what I've seen.

It depends. Where are your corals and where to you want the light? If you have nothing in the front and middle where that middle light is on the image you posted to, then that wouldn't be a good configuration for you. Sometimes you just have to make a decision on your own and go with what's best for your configuration.

Just setup your tank and let the cycle do its thing. All it'll take is time and patience

Any stray electric currents in the tank? Alk, calcium and magnesium readings? I don't know how much they'd affect fish but could, perhaps, lead to other theories about what's going on.

I know you do a lot of research and reading. You should know then that many tanks go through some sort of algae cycle in addition to the bioligical cycle. Every tank I've ever setup has gone through an algae cycle that lasts several months running through bryopsis, hair algae, that red stuff that blows off and more. But eventually everything settles down, stabilzes and looks good. Time is your only answer. It might look like a hair algae farm for a little while - but just harvest it, do your water changes and let things stabilize or 2 or 4 months.