Karah

Thanks everyone for all of the great tips! Ill let you know when I get everything under control

As for the filtered water question... I was told tap water is fine... Im guessing that is a mistake?

yeah... just started out. I have a few fish (goby, tang, and two clowns) and a few hermits... maybe 3 or 4. Ive been doing water changes periodically but only about 5 gallons at a time or so. So more often? Or more water removed? Or a bit of both? Lights are running about 12 hrs a day... 4 or so hrs being actinics only.

So as of the past couple of days the tanks has started to have an algae problem Its light green and all over the place. How can I get rid of it???

@WaterDog... lucky for me there is a great grocery store like that right around the corner from me... I couldnt believe the amount of fish they carried when I first saw it. Looks like a trip to the asian market is in order as well. Thanks!

Thanks a million zygote2k! Revive is now on the shopping list. I just got done buying 2 hydor koralia 750's (on sale for 25 bucks) b/c I really dont think there is nearly enough water movement to start putting a bunch of corals in there as the tank is now. Those should be here between the 24th and the 29th As for feeding fish and corals, anything in particular recommended? I simply want to be well informed when going to a LFS or searching online for this type of stuff and dont want to get conned into stuff that is completely pointless ya know? I saw some recipes for fish food on here... would it be better to just make all my own food?

T5's I got at this awesome place called House of forrealb50 Outside of that, I dont quite remember all of the specifics

Literally just finishised uploading a few pics to my profile gallery. Nothing impressive, but they are there at last