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I have a 16G LED biocube on my desk. For water change, i take in a 5G bucket of salt water about every 2-3 weeks. I work in a lab, so i have access to RO water to do my top off.

Hello Megan, Welcome to the best reef club in all the land. If you are ever in the Silver Spring area, I will give you a frag from my tank

Try this

I did get it from ERC about 3 years ago. It was splitting like crazy. I had to move it out. Now my hammer colony has a hole in it

So, here is the most unique hammer you will ever see. Take a close look and tell me what you see

Hi all, So I am planning my fish list for a 16G bio cube nano tank and would like to get recommendations for the best algae eater fish to get. I reckon I should get a fish that would keep the rocks clean. Any suggestions for a nano tank? many thanks

It looks like felt. mine is 200uM and I use Clorox on mine. it will be fine

I clean mine with a garden hose (6 feet) connected to my laundry sink. I turn them inside out, spray them out and soak them in a few ounces of bleach for a few days. Then i soak them in clean water for a few days before letting them dry out. I have several, so i swap them out 1x/week.

Marcos, and ERC, I would also like to thank you for your donation of RC to the WAMAS meeting. I was fortunate to be a winner. Now I am set for salt for a long time. Thank you for also organizing the group buy

I think brown/blue clove polyps are in the same family of hydroids. Here is a long thread on R2R about riding your tank of hydroids using fenbendazole, a problem that is also developing in my tank. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/eliminating-blue-clove-polyps-with-fenbendazole.308994/

I love the stand or is it a combine tank/desk? I noticed your office chair

Is that 25G a bio cube? I am looking for a Bio cube in the size range.

Go bigger. Get a size that can fit under the stand

Scott or anyone that currently have solar, Do you have any updated information on when the Tesla power wall will be available for general sales? Clearly with this, you will be able to live off grid. What is Pepco's position on potentially loosing lots of customers?

Get this https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/julian-s-thing-multi-use-tool-two-little-fishies.html

I agree with what Alan said. In my case the math made sense for me. My average monthly bill to Pepco was $160. When i looked at the solar option, it would cost me $170 with the finance option. I reckon, I was paying Pepco about $160 per month anyway so paying an extra $15. was not a big deal to own the system and get ALL the benefits. I got the federal 30% tax credit plus an extra $1000 for MD. Plus i got Solar Renewable Energy Credit (SERC)s At the time I purchase my system (10kWa), the SERCs were selling at $150 per credits unfortunately, that value has been reduced to about $15/credit, last time i check. Last year I got a $600 check which i used to further pay off the loan. At this rate, I would have payed off the loan years sooner. Now it will take a bit longer because of the decrease SERC value. But at the end of the deal the system is mine. Yes, technology gets better, but its better than nothing. The panels now are about 20% efficient and they will only get better. But if you are going to have to pay Pecpo anyway, why not buy/finance the system anyway? The Tesla battery will be a game changer once it is available. Then you will be able to live off grid and rely solely on the battery. It will certainly worth the cost of the battery because now enen though i make "free" power, when the grid goes down, i loose power too. The other consideration about the generator too your carbon footprint. I want to be as green as possible. Remember, burning fossil fuel leads to increase CO2 and acidification of the water, increase water temp and ultimately coral bleaching which adversely affect the reefs and our hobby. I am all about going green. Solar fits that bill

You did not mentioned which LFS you were talking about, or did i missed it?

I had only done the first treatment so only half the dose

Thanks for the info. I was looking for something like this. So I had the wrasse for about 3 weeks. It was doing well, eating behaving well with others. A few days ago, i noticed a few small white spots on the fins, nothing severe, so I took him out and place it in QT were it was for 2 days before i started the treatment. It was swimming in the QT tank. No issues with the other fish in the tank, more wrasses and tangs.

So I just made a very costly and perhaps stupid error. I HAD a very expensive wrasse was was showing a few ich spots. Took him out of the DT and placed him in my QT (20g tank). I did a water change in the tank (replace my QT water with water from the DT) and started copper (cupramine) according to the instructions yesterday. Woke up today and my wrasse is dead!!!!!!!!!! SUCKS :( Where did i went wrong? Are wrasses sensitive to cu? How you do your QT wrasses? Many thanks Milton

Same this I did. i got a 1/2 HP JBJ for $300. I could not pass up on the deal and since i had the space for it and was planning an upgrade, I decided to have it, just in case. good luck. Milton

I ran one on my 180g tank last summer. I had design the system to have one and i had one laying around so I connected it. My tank is in my basement of a split level house. I ran a combination of LEDs and T5s. Tank temp is set to 77-78 degrees. The tank go to 80 degrees a few times and the chiller came on. It was not needed, but since I had the chiller, i used it. I say, it you have a chiller, plan to for it just in case.

Many thanks for posting this information

Congrats of the fish purchase. I love my McCosker wrasse and my lawn mower blenny, aka grampa (just looks like an old man to me). The thing with chromis is you may have ended up with one anyway. They have a way of "taking out" each other. I started with 9 in my old 90G and over time ended up with one. A common complain from people who keep them. I do not know why this is.

Just came back for Fintastic Aquarium in Fredrick. They have McCosker wrasse very reasonably price. Plus other small fish