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Congrats! Still looks great.

I think he was using live rock as a generic term....meaning it will be live rock.

Agreed, typically more of a nuisance than anything. I scrape them off when I can. They just shoot snot webs out to collect food, can irritate corals.

I don't think there is a rule of thumb for lighting, every tank will have its own needs. Most soft corals should be fine with your current intensity and duration. You will have to test your levels after adding corals to see if dosing is necessary. Most likely doing water changes will provide enough trace elements for zoas and soft corals. Dosing probably won't be necessary until you really get growing. But again, make sure you are testing for anything you are adding.

Hard to tell 100% in the pic, but I would lean more towards diatoms. If so, it usually runs its cycle and goes away on its own. You could try running GFO or other kind of phosphate/silicate remover and see if that helps.

I can't seem to find where I read it, but I had a similar issue a few years ago and read that diet my contribute to white stingy poo in clownfish. The article if I recall correctly specified feeding a diet high in Mysis shrimp could cause it. FWIW I have had that clownfish for a few years now, never been treated either and has the occasional stringy poo. Interested to hear your results.

I have used it in the past with success as well and no detriment to my mixed reef. I tried everything to avoid using it, finally gave in and it worked in 1 dose. I will use it again if the need arises.

I have 2 of these over my 125 mixed reef. I barely have them on and they are super bright. It's hard to tell because they are just dials, but I may have the blues at 25% and white at 10% I started turning them up and had some SPS bleach. They are about 10" above the tank

I personally don't have any experience with them, but they sell and have them on display at Reef Escape. I'm sure Phil could give you lots of info on them.

Peppermint shrimp seem to have done the trick. I put them in before I went on vacation, when I came back all the hydroids were gone. Colonial I think are much worse, the digitate are just little white sweepers that sway back and forth mostly visible after lights out. I've read the sting and can irritate corals so I wanted them gone.

FWIW, I introduced 2 peppermint shrimp into the DT and I haven't seen one since. I read somewhere they may eat them so I figured it was worth a shot and sure enough I don't see them anymore. Maybe a coincidence, but either way they appear to be gone for now!

No idea, wish I had some to sell. I've seen them on here for $425ish.

I saw in your first post that you did dip the coral. When I was new to SPS and harder to keep coral, I don't know why, but almost every piece of SPS I dipped had RTN. I could dip LPS all day long with no issues, but SPS always had RTN. So if your water checks out, maybe the issue is with the dip or dipping process you are using. Just a thought, hope everything works out.

Me too, looks great.

Looking good, how about a full tank shot?

The top barely tumbles it looks like small moving mountains across the top. I'm just wondering how effective it will be since the output is so low.

I recently installed the reactor in my system and it seems like it has to flow extremely slow to make the GFO just tumble gently at the top. The rest of the GFO doesn't move only the top gets agitated slightly. Is this correct? If I turn the flow up any more half the gfo goes to the top and the other half stays at the bottom.

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It's hard to tell in the blue....can you get a pic with more white light? It almost looks like a stomella snail, but they have small shell that kind of looks like a small motorcycle helmet.

I don't believe they are vermetid worm tubes unless this is what they look like when they build them. These are the consistency of sand held together with spit. I saw one before when I was clearing some algae with a toothbrush and it disintegrated as soon as I touched it. Curious what makes them.

What makes these little sand borrows/tubes ? You can see there are 2 of them in the sand at the base of the rock.

1. Your tank is still relatively young, so algae outbreaks are fairly typical as your tank matures. Phosphates maybe high. Manual removal as well as reduced photo period and feedings may help. GFO reactor would be another option if it gets out of hand. 2. Never had a cardinal, not sure on that one. 3. BTA's or any anemone like a mature system. I would just be patient and wait for all your parameters to be stable for a few months. Most marine LED applications should be fine for a BTA. There are usually great lights here in the For Sale Forum.

I have not tried that yet, I plan to go to battle this weekend.

I wish it were that easy, I have a ton of snails including 15+ turbos in my 125. I don't know what they are eating, but it's not this stuff.

Running into some GHA issues. I have a good size refugium but I guess its not getting rid of all the junk. I have a spare reactor and some GFO, but will running GFO take out my refugium along with the green hair algae?