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AC always looks closed i wish he would put a sign out in the lot..... His fish always seem heathy. Steve at go fish has been around forever and has heathy fish 2. Tropical lagoon has some large tangs and the best prices to me and its my go to store for fish.

ozone and hp works........ask me how i know.

Aquatics creations has fiish that are in his system for some time so if its a tang and you dump and prey thats a good choice....also Ilike cheaper fish that why i like trop lagoon.

Tropical lagoon is far and away the cheapest with the best looking fish to me. Ihave bought 3 dozen fish over the years with not 1 problem. Stay away from hot for fish....they are the worst. Cte very bad selection poor health. Go fish has healthy fish been in the business forever. There is a petco in gb that i get some cheap fish that i have good luck with they also get some cheap uchins. My 2 cents.

The large single point light from a mh is what is hard to copy not the spectrum. For its price the g5 is special to me because of its dual dual pods close together. Seems to give a mh effect to my eyes. Look all the leds and t5s grow sps well they look like crap compared to a good mh setup. A couple of g5s are the way to go to me.....my 2 cents

When you used mh like i did for 20 years all leds look like crap to me..... The new kessil and smatfarm g5 are ok....everything else looks like crap.

I think the g5 is the best leds for the mh look...... HONESTLY they should be way more popular then they are they really do look like mh.

3 g5 from amazon and a blue light bar.....700.00 3g6 and a blue light bar......850.00 Having a canopy i would put 3 plus a bar. Smatfarm g5/g6 are my fav when it comes to price and color and shimmer. I have tried most leds think kessils for shimmer and radions color...my 2 cents.

I set up a number of tanks in the 80s with 80 percent of live rock and even this amount of rock never handled my nitrate. Have since then always had a upside down sandbed in every tank. Works no water changes some tanks add a little vinager your set.

Your tank is cycled Rock alone can after the cycle leave alot of nitrate in your system A skimmer helps alot I would add at least a hob 100 is nothing in a fish only but it may climb out of control once you add fish I added a full forty breeder of dirty rock into a 80 gallon fish only with a hob skimmer on it the tank got nasty but cleared up and cycled with a 40 nitrate level only fish in it is a molly

Heres the best test kit in my experence . Comes with a reference sample easy to read as well. You have the best situation you can have just dose nitrate until you hit 5 and test weekly with the seachem. If you feed more or add fish then you chase po dont mess up a great thing. My 150 for 10 years had 0 nitrates...had a crash....set up the same way now i dose vinager/sugar to controll nitrates. Every tank even the same tank redone over reacts differently.

The ideal is to slowly filter a small amount of water through a chemical filter first carbon then a layer of poly filter so any household chems/metals/organics...etc might be removed before any tank crash. As you can see large water changes are and should be a last resort. There is a huge difference for your tank size and what a coral farm should do... Icp test are not reliable its been shown over and over. They have a place but you should be wary of them. I run a very slow flow through a brs dual reactor never do water changes on my 150 plus 2 40 system.....i use a small amount of poly in my reactors.

Add a poly filter an call it a day......the large 60 dollar one has a higher affinity for some compounds i beileve. One bad batch of salt and there she goes. Amazon has 5packs for 45 or 3packs of the large for 105 next day...simple insurance.

That skimmers design with its placement of its foam bublle trap is problematic. My faverite hang on back has always been the old remora with its bubble trap... always search for one on the forums. I use fine mesh nets in my system for bubbles were needed... they need to be rinsed every 2 weeks. You can most likely get one some were in your system every fish store has different sizes.