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Its not a clownfish, see above

Welcome to the group, I am from PR too (Vega Baja).... You can always change your sand if you dont like it your current one. Basically you would just syphon it out on your water changes and since you have a 30 gallon, you can probably do it in two water changes.Try the Tropic Eden ones (premium aquatics sell them), they rinse very well and your water wont turn very cloudy. I suggest the mesoflakes (2.7mm). As for fish, 3 anthias in that tank is pushing it but I dont have many experience with them.

holy dendro nice

I dont know if these are the same but I had colonial hydroids that go in a tube if you touch them and they where absolute cancer. Nothing kills them and they sting like crazy. I got rid of them because my tank crashed and I lost all my corals.

thanks! just bought 10 capsules

Thanks for sharing your experience, where did you get the flucanazole and what mg did you use? I am having a hair algae problem myself on my tank and its out of control.

In my experience, the best rock that I have bought came from a local fish store in Florida. It was full of coraline algae, many macroalgae growing and full of pods, etc. Now, it did came with a few pistol shrimps that I left them there.

very cool, I have shipped fish from Puerto Rico to FL when I moved there but never carried an entire tank with me... That is a good option if you dont have many fish and corals!

Thanks guys, got the lawnmower blenny today lets see if he helps

title, thanks!

+1 for bergia if you can find one. The peppermint shrimps are a hit or miss, there are different kind of peps and some of them dont eat aiptasia, i believe the ones from the caribbean do.

Just got a new wetside from ecotech around one month ago and the impeler ceramic portion shattered. Many people on R2R are having the same problem and it looks like it could be some manufacturer problem. My tank doesn't have any sand so I doubt anything got trapped inside and shattered the impeller. Has anyone had this happened recently?

T5 bulb replacement is expensive, I just paid $160 in bulbs around 2 weeks ago.

hah I dont think my tank can handle it... I think its even smaller than yours!

I have built two LED lights and now I have ATI 8x24w T5 powermodule. I highly suggest T5 & led mix.

nice carpet, makes me want to get one

I saw some blue ones in Puerto Rico right on the shore, they get exposed to air every few hours.

There are different strains of Dynos, on my previous setup (same tank & equipment) I had a really tough strain, if I remember correctly it was one called "Prorocentrum." I battle it for a while and tried many chemical products like Dyno X and non chemical remedies like 6 day blackouts. Unfortunately they always came back, slowly but back to dominate. I had a Dr graduate from UMD (username is "Pants") come to my house with equipment to analyze which strain it was. You should contact him and ask for his help so you know what you are dealing with. My suggestion to you is that if you can easily start over do it.. Take out every rock in the tank and boil it.

If you can take out the rock and break the piece where the aiptasia is located, do it.... Dont do a kalk paste, aiptasia x or anything related because the next thing it will happen is that many will appear in a few weeks, spores will get distributed.

what kind of nem is that? my guess is a magnifica?

you will be back

I have been working with Marco (monkiboy) from ERC for about a month now on support for an old non-hybrid ATI Powermodule fixture i got on a trade and so far my experience has been very good. Basically I wanted to trade with another individual across the US a 6x24w unit for a 8x24w that needed some parts to revive it again. Marco provided great guidance and support on different parts on the unit. He gave me the best price I could find for new reflectors. He even offered to provide a discounted shipping label for me to send my old unit to the other party on the trade after I mentioned to him that the other guy from the west coast paid $70 bucks to ship me his unit [emoji50]. If you want an ATI T5 fixture or need parts for any of these, I highly recommend you go through ERC, they are amazing, always respond to messages quickly and they might be able to get you a better price. Some of these parts are only found on Europe such as the acrylic shield which is 4mm and no where in the US you will be able to find this thickness, maybe 1/8” will fit but it will be loose and flow might get affected. I basically had to replace the reflectors, acrylic shield, 4 fans and a bunch of screws.

Get your dinoflagellates there!!

looks so nice, I have been wanting to add a bta to my 22g but have been afraid that it will move a lot. Does yours stay put?

let me know if you want to trade or sell, I like them.