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:D not sure if I know anyone that goes to umbc but yeah! Good stuff . Is it your first time doing saltwater?

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:D Same but I have a 40b. Fun stuff

oo Are you keeping a dorm tank?

Oh wow that's awful... I'm really sorry to hear that :/ Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

Frag from ICAA xD color isn't as cool :3 but it seems to be coloring up!

Incredible Corals is having a sale on them! There was 5? Or 6 for sale. I grabbed one:) Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

I was thinking about doing the same, but no detritus was building up and they seem to be doing good so I passed! Let me know how yours work though :D

Haha yeah! Lots of growth still. The chaeto was going into my overflow and started to clog it a big which made me nervous when I remembered someone telling me about putting it in a hamster ball. It's pretty great because my powerhead rotates it and every side gets a pretty even amount of lighting! Pretty easy to remove the chaeto too. There's a small hole that you twist to open, grab a chunk, and close it up! Clean and easy.

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Ooo I'm looking for Iwagumi or Dragon stone, do you know if any will be available? Maybe so spider wood too. Haven't decided on my scape yet. Is this group just for plants? or FW fish/shrimp too?

Tank update, everything is looking good. It has been about 2 weeks now since everything was added. Lots of new polyps and great extension. A Reefer on the forum told me about the hamster ball to hold chaeto.. greatest idea ever. No more Chaeto in my power heads and plumbing Haven't messed around with Hydra settings to kinda match my Kessils yet :/

Oh gosh so far. Ok Thanks for the heads up!

I know this is a more saltwater forum but I wanted to ask if anyone knows where I could get some freshwater stuff like driftwood. Is there a LFS you've seen that has some? Trying to set up a small shrimp tank Thanks!

For some background, It was stung by I think my hammer and that's what the bumpy area was. It was healed before I gave it to him though. Looks like an algae coat on it, hmm. I wonder what's wrong :x

My Yellow Pachy coral started to get purple spots probably due to low light so I moved him up. Any idea if that's the case? Not a lot of info on them out there.

Right I do have a Return pump from the sump that pumps to it and a overflow box that takes water out xD but it's very weak, I would say maybe <100 gph?

I have a separate fuge tank and was wondering if I can just leave it with pretty much no flow. The Chaeto keeps going into the powerhead and it bothers me >.> . Maybe I could add a 2nd pump to my sump and have a line going into a spray bar? The detritus building up on the floor does bother me. Any Advice or opinions?

Yeah I learned that from a post a year or so back! Tank is currently at 83 Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

Got it. Thanks for the info! I used quite of bit of live rock from my old tank so it should be partly ok. Im going to be getting pods even though my tank already does have some. I know that fish pretty much just died when ammonia is present. What about zoas? Sorry never really thought about the effects of ammonia of softies and was wondering if you knew

I've cycled my tank for about 2-3 weeks now so it's pretty much done but this time I dosed a lot of ammonia and a LOT of nitrifying bacteria. I dosed the normal amount of Aquaforest Bio S for the 3ish weeks now and along with that I also dosed almost the entire bottle of Aquavitro's Seed. As I said, I dosed about 5ppm of ammonia and along with that let around 4-5 silversides rot in the tank. My ammonia was gone in about 3ish days but to be careful I let the tank cycle for another 2 weeks. I just want to know for future reference... was that too much nitrifying bacteria? AND Question Part 2. I have to start adding my corals and fish pretty early and I know that new tanks have problems with stability. Is there a way to keep it stable?

Just read through the whole thread, I love what you did with the stand.... and everything else. Makes me want to do more DIY .. :D

Oh wow. I never knew that they took the anemone with them XD Really cool stuff

Well It actually has been about 3 weeks since I set this tank up but I only kept track on another forum. Equipment 1 x EcoTech Vortech MP10wQD 1 x Aqueon 700 1 x Mag 7 Return Pump 1 x Hydra 52 (Non-HD) w/Controller + Classical AI Mount 1 x Kessil a360we + Gooseneck + Controller 1 x Kessil a160we + Gooseneck 1 x Eshopps Eclipse L Overflow 1 x Eshopps PSK-100h 1 x Aqueon Proflex Model 1 Sump (11ish Gallons) 1 x Open top Fluval Edge 12 (Had it in the shed and it happened to be the same height as the breeder) 1 x Aqueon 40 breeder from Petco Dollar per Gallon! :D 2 x Eshopps Felt Socks Livestock + Rock and stuff..... x Amount of dry rock I collected over the year or so. x Amount of sand I collected over the year or so (Both Sand and Rock were nuked before being used) About a pound of Greatwave Engineering's Biohome Ultimate Media 1 x Marinepure Ceramic Media ***Various Corals, 2x Clowns, 1x Bangai Cardinal, 1x lawnmower blenny, 3x anemone (2 very small) in a holding tank until I can slowly start adding them*** Chemicals and Stuff This tank will use only AquaForest products pretty much. (Awesome stuff) I have been dosing Bio S along with Aquavitro seed (Had it left over) for about a week and pretty much it was "done" cycling in a day or 2. I did the shrimp method.. but instead of shrimp I used to silversides I had from feeding anemones. Oh man, the only problem I had was with the Eshopps Eclipse L overflow. The first one I had leaked from the middle overflow so I had to take it out and ask DrFoster&Smith for a replacement. They have AWESOME customer service though Live chat is great. Got it in 2 days and worked flawlessly. For the price, I think it's fantastic. The large is 3 drains, 2 bulkheads that drains to the overflow box. It's pretty much completely silent. I have Herbie setup and I can't hear it drain at all. (granted I have 2 expensive as H-E-double hockey sticks Sears Gate valves >.>) Excuse the mess. Need to clean up the wiring and etc. Still setting up and etc. Had to use that stand because it matches our actual TV stand that's perpendicular to this. It works though just a bit messy for my liking. My water flow goes Display -> Sump, Fuge Tank -> Sump, Sump -> Fuge and Display. Also not the greatest, but it works. Man my lighting plan is a mess currently, although I like it a lot. I'm going to have the Hydra 52 on the right side of the tank for my SPS and a Kessil a360we on the left for my softies and LPS. My original plan was a360we in the middle, a160we on the left and Hydra 52 on the right but after lighting it all up, it was sort of overkill on the softies. So my plan now is to sell my a160we and grab http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/t5-ho-miro-4-retrofit-kit-let-lighting.htmlone of these babies and hook it onto the AI Mount. I spent awhile trying to decide what retrofit I wanted but apparently these are pretty good . LET reflectors are apparently identical to ATI according to someone I talked to on another forum which is pretty much the most important part of the fixture. My first choice one of the the Giesemann retrofit fixtures but this is cheaper and people are saying the LET ones are just as good so. . But yeah. this is it :D so far. I'm adding more rock (rock inside the holding tank right now) so but I'd love some ideas on better rockscapes.. I always sucked at aquascaping. This is definitely not the scape I'm using but the plan is to have a tonga branch like that for the sps and like.. a stairway L thing to the left. We'll see. Thanks for reading!