Squishie89

I have an apex you can borrow until things get settled if you need, only catch is you'd have to come get it. So sorry for all this chaos! Glad nothing really important got damaged.

I think this sounds like a really good idea.

I am hoping to use it eventually to raise some clownfish or might set up a species specific tank or something. Unfortunately it will be sitting in storage for quite a while as I continue to redo my display tank.

I did =X

Wow that looks awesome!

Just say it is a very advanced kind of lamp :-P

Gobies or blennies are always good choices. Personally I would suggest selling/giving away the tang so it can be in a bigger tank. Cardinal, filefish, dottyback, small wrasses and basslets are also choices. You could also potentially get your clown a mate.

Wow, that was a great fragfest. Big thanks to Fluval for the aquarium set up, ReefeScape and Live Aquaria for the corals. And last but not least our hard working, not paid a dime to do this officers and moderators, without you all we wouldn't have all of this, thank you guys from the bottom of my heart.

Could use an Apex DoS, I plan using one to help with water changes

+1 he plumbed my tank and it looks spiffy as heck!

My favorite for larger mouth corals like your frogspawn and candy cane is Fauna Marin LPS pellets. For small mouth corals like goniopora, birdsnest, other SPS I make a mixture of powdered phyto (I think it is called PhytoPlan), a little bit of reef roid, and goniopower. For the medium mouths like the ZOA's I make some Fauna Marin ZOA/ricordea food. I also dose Sponge Power, Amino Acid Concentrate LPS, Pohl's Coral Vitalizer and Pohls Xtra Concentrate from Korallen-Zucht. You do need to be careful about using these micro particle foods like reef roids because hydroids lloovvee it and can become a problem.

I see copepods and possibly a Medusa stage hydroid in that photo

Were the dots moving at all?

Those are flatworms. I can't remember which kind at the moment, I want to say Red Planaria.

Looks like baby/teeny tiny snails. I believe I have those too, have not been able to ID them yet. If they are the same thing they do not appear to be harmful, hard to tell if they are helpful though haha. Here is a photo of mine

Aww! Congrats! Good luck raising them!

Here you go http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/marinepure-ceramic-biomedia-plate.html

B/G was shorthand for the blue/green version he mentioned earlier in his post

And I would be happy when threads of mine were featured on reef2reefs Facebook :-P Congrats, very cool!

+1, Rob came and plumbed my new DT in Rockville and as Alan said, he has a colleague as well in the area. I guess one concern would be would access, not sure how secure your building is and what the protocol would be to have someone unknown come in.

Those are not growths, those are part of the corals insides. Found this on reef2reef, "those are messenteri(e) filaments, they act as a defense mechanism, some animals ie. echinoderms uses them for digestion. I have also noticed them with corals when they are stressed."

You should not rinse live sand, and I agree with using new sand. Some people differ on this, but I would also suggest getting quite a bit of bacteria in a bottle, which should/will help with all the insanity going on in the tank.

Frogspawn or torch

Are you sure it is not an amphipod? That is my best guess

Thanks for the replies Tom and Tom XD. I think that is a good consensus, that it is just protein foam. I don't run a skimmer on this tank (I did for a while but eventually it stopped pulling because it lacked nutrients) so it makes sense. Just glad it isn't anything "bad"