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Garlic is good for getting a fish to eat if they are finicky or not eating. Long term though it can actually kill your fish.
Selcon is good for HLLE but not really necessary.
Feed appropriate foods to your fish and you don't need and supplementation.
With Alk and calc that high they might be literally precipitating into the water column and no corals could survive that level. Stop dosing the reef roids because they are only going to raise your nitrates/phosphates which is why your dinos are probably coming back. Have you checked the TDS of...
Most fish stores have followed the trop model and prices are pretty consistent in that way. Used you can always find a good deal. The all in ones have gotten pretty good if you are looking for simplicity.
I think it was a terrible judgement call to give out raffle tickets to volunteers. It just looks bad and it turns into drama threads like this. As others mentioned in that thread, there will always be people saying raffles are fixed, but the complaints persists if you give them ammo like this...
A 180 is a pretty standard tank so I bet you could find a good deal on one. The 220 you might have a bit more trouble on. Most fish stores will sell new tanks at cost, so it is at least worth taking a look and getting some quotes.
First off make sure you have a very secure lid for that tank as you have multiple jumpers. All the fish on your list would be fine in that tank. I would just add the leopard later, give your tank some time to build up some micro fauna for him to feed on. They can be very delicate and hard to...