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No specific recommendations or feedback yet, just some sentiment: welcome back to the show!

How many outlets does it have?

Have been running an two-year-old AI Prime over my Fusion for a while now and just added a brand new AI Prime to the mix. I was able to have the original be the parent and the new run as the child. However, the new one's deep red LED will not turn off, no matter what I put the settings on. For example, I set everything to 0% and the whole array will be dark while I'm on the editing page. However, the deep red will still be at around 5% or so after I back out of the editing page. There are different channels/arrays on the old and the new light, for what that's worth. Can get pics and serial numbers if that helps at all this evening. Thanks for looking and for any help anyone can provide!

Love lagoons, looking forward to seeing how this goes.

Really like the reclaimed wood look of the stand and the rockwork looks great. Excited to see how this comes along. Re: cycling, I've always kept the lights on their normal schedule for my nanos but that's just anecdotal.

Nice. A 1.5-2 inch sandbed can do most of of the bio work IMO, so prioritize your rock around how you want to aquascape. I love that lagoon tank. Yes, juvenile clowns would be just fine for a year or so.

Lotta action since the last post. Had some major alk swings that overtook a few corals, sold or swapped some things out, some "out of the house" fatalities, and one stinging situation that leads us to today: [/url] Had been fishless for a few months while things stabilized in the tank and I could find a Saturday to be at home to receive an order. Finally made the plunge for this guy: Yeeeeees. This is a sunburst anthias in a five gallon. Noooooo, this is not a permanent home nor is it recommended. I made sure to get a 1.5 inch fellow and am able to spot feed him twice a day. Two weeks in, he's gaining mass and seems mostly acclimated. They definitely are a timid species, so a peninsula 5 gallon helps with visibility. Currently doing a low-level battle with montipora-eating nudibranchs. Its under control, just trying to get it completely solved so curious if anyone's had any successes they can share.

Way too kind, Tricia. Hi Joshifer. (Great name, by the way.) Check out my five gallon startup thread: http://wamas.org/forums/topic/67479-fluval-spec-v-five-gallon/ It's still going, though hard to believe it's been a year and a half since I've posted and update. I'll tackle that later, but what's there might be helpful. Nano-reef.com is a great community to check out for us smaller tank folks and I a more thorough startup thread there too: http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/347648-steaming-pile-of-spec-fluval-spec-v-build-thread/ For your 6 gallon, rtelles is right that a pair of clowns is doable, but not the best. I tried some in my five gallon and because they're so active, they metabolize thus poop above their weight class. Pistol/goby combo plus a smaller blenny and a skunk or blood shrimp for movement could be nice. GSP and xenia is perfect, acans and other mellow LPS can be good additions too. For lighting, search Nano-reef for how people have successfully modded the Edge. The main advice is take it slow. Everyone says that, but I've been doing nanos since 2002 and can promise that you will never regret letting your parameters figure themselves out after a few months before do substantial stocking. That small of a volume of water means it doesn't take much for the dominos to fall. That said, get some familiarity with how your tank reacts (test, test, test), let the bacteria do its thing, and nanos can be a much simpler and smaller headache than the bigger cousins.

Yeah, there's only so much a phone can do. I'm just impressed that you're getting true color out of it. My iPhone 4 soaks up the blues and makes for frustrating pictures.

Nice phone pics! What phone are you using?

Looking good, the rockwork looks better spread out. How are you liking the Koralia in there? Do you have it on a controller or anything to modify the flow?

Hooray for another Spec V! Folks over at Nano-Reef.com say the Spinstream cuts down on flow too much, even with a MJ 606, just FYI. If you do try it, please let me know how you like it, since I've been trying to find a non-powerhead way to randomize flow a bit.

Nice. Is his trick chaining himself above water and dramatically escaping?

Do you always sleep upside down? And it was great seeing the tank in-person. That second sunburst show back up yet?

Here's what glueing down frags looks like in a five gallon. Just take the water level down to where the lowest frag will be placed, then fill it back up. Total exposure time under five minutes if it's planned right. And as you can see, colors in my SPS are pretty lacking, the acros especially. Blues, purples, and pinks are just absent, with brown the color du jour. Here is my "brownout" thread over on Nano-Reef detailing everything. Would appreciate feedback any of you might have as well.

Thanks! Putting way too much time into the thing. Speaking of which, here's an update video from yesterday with a new setosa and sympodium from Issac. (Great trade, thanks!)

Good work. You are an excellent American. And yes, looks like sea lettuce to me. Salad it up.

Liking the scape in the 24. I'm with you, glueing coral to rock is satisfying. Like planting a sapling it feels good knowing you will watch it grow. For the 4 gallon, I can recommend the Pederson's anemone shrimp. I just got mine from KP Aquatics and it's healthy and quirky so far. A forest of gorgs could be cool. With fungia interspersed on the floor. Minimal rock scaping in the back with three eviota gobies darting around... blank canvases are the best!

I've had three over the years and other than the odd exploratory nip (that's a technical term!) they've left corals alone. From what I know, they have the best reputation for reef safe among angels.

Got a great new order with silly prices on livestock from KP Aquatics. Not a fan of paying $40 for shipping, but everything else was so cheap it made it worth it. Full disclosure, I now have six fish in a five gallon: juvenile pygmy angel, Wheeler's goby, hi-fin goby, masked goby, and 2 rusty gobies. The Wheeler's gonna go to make room soon, but I plan to keep the remaining five for a while. KPA says the strain of pygmies they sell don't get above 2". We'll see and I'll be monitoring how it's doing as it gets bigger. It's a long tank and not very tall, so the five gallons is stretched compared to a cube. Combined with an open aquascape, there are good swimming lanes that ideally will provide a medium to long-term home for the angel. That still leaves four gobies, all of which stay 1"-2" and simply don't need to stretch their legs since they're hoverers or rock-huggers. Again, we'll see how it goes. I'm fairly convinced that for fishes that don't burn a lot of calories, such as gobies, they're simply not going to need to eat as much and thus won't produce as much waste as say clowns or wrasses (or angels). Past the fish, I got a orange spiny gorg, a bunch of dwarf cerith, a Pederson's anemone shrimp, and a tiny urchin. Algae was starting to become a thing, so this is a welcome boost to the CUC. Bagged goods Little man likes the Pederson's anemone shrimp Ordered a mated pair of rusty gobies - this is the brave one Here's a link to my first video - couldn't figure out how to post directly here if it's hosted on Flikr Last weekend I picked up two new corals from a local grower - love the new blue/orange fungia And the Japanese toadstool with pencil urchin and Wheeler's goby photobombing

Check out the clam forum over on Nano-Reef.com. There's currently an active thread that mirrors your question. Anectodally, I just got a 1.5" maxima from Pacific East and it didn't even last a week in my 5 gallon. Older tanks I feel are important, and in addition to the other variables in my little tank, I think that it was under 1 year old didn't help matters.

What do you two talk about?

Looking good.

FTS from last week. It's a fun little tank with interesting proportions. I wish it was an inch wider, but still love it.

Very familiar with the curse of green and brown. What pico are you running? The Spec V rear chamber (like pretty much all AIO chambers) is very small and would overfill very quick, so the margin for error is... pico. I hadn't even though of using a drip acclimator to regulate flow. Time to look around for simple but elegant gravity-fill solutions.