miller

in my 55gl i do 10gl every other week

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the Genicanthus melanospilus or blackspot angels are very nice looking and somewhat common also the watanabea are becomming a little more common is LFS also i have only seen bellus on wholesale lists and at roozens. or you could just go all out and find a pair of genicanthis personatus whihc should only put you back several thousnad dollars should you actually be able to locate them. all in all i think these angles are great fish and a must have in each of my tanks. also most species live in trios or herums in the wild

if it were my tank i would probably go with something like ... pair of genicanthis angels (probably bellus or watanabea) pair of clowns trio of anthias atleast one zebrasoma tang (yellow,purple,black,desjardini.....) and since i beleive yo u mentioned the tank os covered may a fairy wrasse or two

it may be a bit much for a 55 but if you turn it down and point it at the galss you should be ok

champion lighting

i have 2 820's and 2 2600's in my 125 they are pretty good pumps and a decent cheap alternitave to tunze although i do think they overrate the GPH a little all in all i like them but its probably a good idea to clean them every few months or so. i dont and the 820's tend to lock up sometime but just taked a little tap on the side to get them goping again i got my 2600's at macna from champion lighting for $75ea

looks like majano to me i would get them out of there asap

great pics it was like being there all over again ecspecially since i saw my self in the seahorse presentation pic

everything i have gotten from them has died i got a pair of watanabea angels and they died 2 weeks later and like an idiot i ordered from them again just the male this time and it was dead in the bag so they replaced it and the replacement one died 2 weeks later needles to say i will never order from them again

i have had decent success with joes juice and that way you dont have to remove the rock

if your looking to drill it anyway why not empty it drill it and move it all at once

from what i understand he was not able to find it locally ( the white colour that is ) so thats why eh is goiung that route

set up the new one but use all of your rock and move it as fast as possible to minimze the die off thats the way i moved mine there was a small algae bloom after the switch but was well worth not moving it

i personally woundt put a naso in anything shroter then a 6 foot tank(once it gets a little bigger) the naso and acanthurus species of tangs really need space unlike zebrasoma who can be in smaller tanks (although some will diagree with that also ) as far as getting along with the othere tang i would say 50/50 i have a desjardini and a yellow togethere and a hippo and kole together but all fish ahve diferent attitudes

i have to agree with trying to buy local first its definetly the way to go and i try to buy local at all costs unless its for something rare (mostly fish) and then i will order online

yeah liveaquaria is the way to go for fish

as far as being worried about it will start killing things as it gets bigger and gets a bigger apetite im not sure of good ways to catch them but if you do catch him ill take him off your hands if your not to far away

phosban has worked well for me for a year or so know runnig it in a phosban reactor

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if thats the problem then yest it should recover

is it getting good flow at the base? sometimes if the top is getting all the flow and the base gets none it will start to receed or bleach from the bottom

i also heard they are hard to keep even when eating and doing well still usually die with in a year and if you go with the heniochus there are to diferent kinds one is reef safe one is not i forget whihc is which biut the way to tell is on one the middle blck stripe stops even with the bottom fin and the othere it goes past it ill try and find whihc is whihc again

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you defintly need to get rid of the source of the alge to permenetly get rid of the alge no amtter how much you remove if the source is still there it will retrurn do you use RO/DI high fish load? fuge? heavy feeding?