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I am very happy with my Reef Angel. Having a controller simplifies things greatly. You have a single, unified source for your timers and most recover from a power-outage without any intervention on your part. You can get as complex or simple as you want with them. Mine controls my LEDs mostly, but I had my sump light on a timer at one point on there and I use it to shut things off for feeding and water changes. Pretty basic stuff IMO.

I think a lot of people think that as long as there is an air gap, you're safe. People don't think about humidity and salt creep.

My guess is there is still plenty on there to start a cycle for you. No harm in tossing in a shrimp too if you want. It will most likely smell quite bad when you get home.

You can toss a frozen shrimp or two in there to kick start it, but if your base rock was ever live you have all the nutrients you'll need in there.

Except coralline helps in the fight against nuisance algae. It doesn't give it a place to take root. Personally, I'd suggest a sea hare first before any other animals. They just are algae eating machines. I'll never go the chemical route again.

I've thought about urchins too. How are tuxedos with bulldozing and eating coralline?

+1 to what Ryan said. It isn't too surprising that you read 0 on your test kits. The algae is extremely effective at pulling the nutrients from the water and often absorbs it as quickly as it is made. I have a sea hare in my tank that has finally beaten back my HA problem. I have tried everything except for an algal turf scrubber (that's next). Marine algae fix worked for a couple of weeks for me and then stopped. I tried high Mag and just killed all of my inverts. Supposedly you have to use the Tech M stuff or it doesn't work. At the end of the day, you probably already know this, you have a nutrient export problem. It can be that you are overfeeding, you are overstocked or your rockwork has a lot of nutrients in it already (<-my problem). I am at the point where I'd rather not fight the algae, but use it. Once I move I'm going to try for one of the small upflow ATS and see if that keeps it at bay. My sea hare will be available soon too.

That fish is made out of wood. (Sorry I couldn't come up with anything clever to say)

I was pretty surprised to say the least. I was pretty sure I'd seen them spawn once before, but it was so quick, I couldn't be certain. I have a 5g AIO that I made that I could put the babies in and raise them there. I need to figure out how to get a rotifer culture going now.

The other day I noticed only one of my PJ cardinals was coming over to be fed. I found the other one under a rock ledge just hanging out, but his mouth looked rather full. I thought maybe they pulled a switch-a-roo on me and I didn't notice, but I looked closer and sure enough... he had a big ball of eggs in his mouth. I'm 100% not setup to handle raising fry, especially with the move this weekend.<br><br>It's good to know they are breeding though, I'm going to think about trying to raise a later brood.<br><br>EDIT: Wow, there were a lot of typos....<br>

I've seen perc's hosting hadonnis before. It's just easier to get one that naturally hosts it and might more readily accept it.

There a specific species that naturally host S. hadonni. Most aren't that easy to find, but here's the list: Amphiprion skindynos (Barrier reef clownfish) Amphiprion chrysogaster (Mauritian clownfish) Amphiprion chrysoperus (Orange-fin clownfish) Amphiprion clarkii (Clarks clownfish) <--- probably the easiest to find Amphiprion omenensis (Oman clownfish) Amphiprion polymnus (Saddleback clownfish) Amphiprion sebae (Sebae clownfish) Clarkii - http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+27+103&pcatid=103

We used two of the 2kW Hondas at work to run a full rack of computers and several workstations. They needed to be filled up once during the day and they didn't need a single thing done to them in the 9 months we ran them. They were run HARD too. 10+ hours per day in the heat and in the rain and in dusty conditions. By far the best if you can afford one.

You could DIY a fixture for fairly inexpensive that would do what you want.

Now THAT is a spot that needs a generator.

My emergency drain on my Herbie has saved me many times. All it takes is a wayward snail to block it up.

That's interesting. Do you have a link to slides or a paper about that?

That means it is either related to flow or lighting. You can do some more experiments to determine which, but my guess is lighting.

A 1kW setup is pretty big. You can do that for $800? That spunds really low to me. Got a parts list?

Sounds like you did almost everything right. Next time, leave your lights off. Your tank will be fine and you won't be pumping even more heat into a hot room.

Depends on the PH.

Water bottles frozen and ready to go at all times Extra batteries for your battery powered devices

It would be more expensive, but probably a better selection, if you look for a "You Finish" furniture store. Don't know any big names in this area, but an example is Howard Hill in NJ. Everything is made of solid wood and is ready to finish. It can get pricey, but you can most likely find exactly what you want.

When I frag things myself I usually attach them to a piece of rubble rock. They don't stay on my frag rack as easily, but it is a lot nicer for whoever is getting them. So the next logical question... how do you remove frags that are encrusted? I have a few digi frags that I was to mount to the rockwork now that they've grown, but they're encrusted. Should I just cut it off with a cutting wheel and let it grow back out on the disc?

^-- That's a good point. Did you have any nutrient problems or nuisance algae before the crash?