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I have never keep corals before. I recieved my final shipment of Live Rock yesterday from Tampa Bay Saltwater. Included in the shipment were a few corals. Should I glue these to the LR using Cyanoacrylate glue? sorry about the crappy pics, my wife took our good digital camera to work with...

I got one if you want him!

how did you end up catching your mantis shrimp? i cannot figure out why i am getting such bad green hair algae. nitrates, amonia, & phosphate are testing 0. Ph is 8.2 my RODI water is testing 0 for phosphates i cut back on my lighting. only running my MH's for about 3 hrs a day now, and T5's...

how much did you get from the mantis'? geez i really hope i dont get any more of those buggers! i will post tank pics once my gha is under control.

i have caught two mantis' so far. the first one i caught by taking the rock out and giving him a dose of RODI. the second i caught with the X-Terminator trap. it took about 10 days of setting the trap each night for him to finally go see what was going on. i did not take pics sorry. the 2nd...

i had a Kole in my 55g and he was no problem at all. friendly with other fish and keep the tank algae free. i am currently going through the algae stage of the cyclin process of my 180g, was thinking of adding a kole tang in a few weeks when the tank is stable, but there are a few other tangs...

thanks guys. it is mexican calupera (spelling?) in my DT that came on the LR. I have some bubble macro algae in my fuge. as far as animals go, i dont have any fish or corals yet. just LR and the hitch hickers that came with it (some snails & a few crabs). so i should get rid of the bubble...

no the caulerpa is dying. there is plenty of room in the fuge. green hair algae is spreading!!! need some help!!!

my tank was going pretty well- amonia & nitrate both reading 0 for a whiel now. but all of sudden a lot of the Mexican Calupera on the LR is dying and green hair algae is starting to grow! i dont have a Phosphate test kit, I guess I better get one. But I am only using RODI water and I am running...

i wouldnt trust that play sand, loaded with silica (or so i am told). what size tank is it?

i went with 1lb of live sand per gallon in my 180g. it is about 2-3 inches all around. then i used 2lbs per gallon in the 55g refugium. about 5 inches all around.

very impressive!

Hahaha! yeah i just kind of realized that if someone has not seen 'A Clockwork Orange' that they may think the picture in the avatar was me. Nope, that picture was the character Alex from Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange. The new avatar is my boxer Lucky (taken seven years ago).

no i have to let richard know when to ship part 2, going to wait till the cycle is complete. and till i catch this mantis shrimp! i havent seen any red serp stars, but i have seen 2-3 small Fancy Tiger-striped stars.

Thanks Brian! Just doing a ton of water changes right now trying to keep the amonia below 0.25 to avoid as much die off as possible on the LR. I am doing about 45 gallons twice a day, which is not really a big deal except for the amount of salt I am going through.

Thanks Phyl! I forgot to add a pic of the 55g Refugium 110lbs of Live Sand, some Caulerpa, and about 60lbs of LR (will be transferring about 30 more lbs from the display to the fuge when i get my final 90lbs of LR from TBS)

Any updated pics Dan? I'd really love to see the progress on this tank!

no i dont think it is, but i am far from an expert

Tank is still cycling, and I still have about 90lbs of LR to add, but here are the latest pics! Full Tank Shot under Atinics Full Tank Shot under MH's Side View Close Up off some LR

isnt it a little funny that a RO unit from costco is good enough for US to drink- but not for our reef tanks????