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Some shots from today. Spent some quality time cleaning on the tank after I took the tests (everything that should be zero is, alk was 2.5 and calcium was ~400): Happy fishies...although that one guy does look like he was caught with his pants down: Side view w/ hawkfish 'Petey':

Believe it or not, I have a phosphate test kit, and it's always read either 0 or the next step up on the test kit (whichever that is), even when testing the water before i put it in the tank. I've heard silicates can cause the same type of problems, and that I have no test kit for, so it's...

Thanks Carlo, I'm just going to change over to RO/DI and keep pulling it out for a while...see how that works out. If it doesn't work out...well, then I might have to start buying stuff. ;) PS - all my levels are 0 where they should be and calc/alk are in good shape.

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While I would normally agree with you, my plans are to downgrade to only the 29g tank. And if that happens, I'll probably use $10/month worth of water. 10 gallons or so. It looks like the smallest RO/DI I could get would produce 75g a day and cost over $100... Just not sure if that's a good...

Yeah, but I couldn't take the constant scolding for putting a tang in a 29g. ;) I think I'm just going to do a few large (33%) water changes over the next few weeks with Eagle's water and see how that does. Hopefully I get to a point where the chaeto is eating up all the extra nutrients in the...

After a few hours of algae pulling, tank cleaning, and ~33% water change: The store up the road from my house (Eagle Reefs) (~15 mins) sells Ro/DI saltwater for $1.25/gallon....so I bought 10 gallons. I'll probably just start using his water...After this all gets settled down, 5 gallons...

Yep...she's a real show winner. Maybe I'll submit it for Reefcentral's tank-o-da-month! At least when the grass waves around, I can see the open corals inside, so things aren't a total loss. Funny, though...I really thought the macroalgae would alleviate this type of problem. Guess not. Ha.

When I left it looked like this: Whoa.

So I was feeding my anemone today and my shrimp wanted part of the action. So I gave one a piece of silverside, and the other came running, so I gave him one too. Then I looked around to see if anything else would eat something and I saw Mr. Hairy Green Mushroom looking all plump. So, I gave...

Compared to the LFS around me, they have a really nice sw section. The place I usually end up at has about 15 fish and 2 corals at any given time. :P

What's that big red guy on the left? Looks like a wagon wheel or something. ;)

That's funny. :)

You're welcome! You're asking about putting livestock in an environment that isn't optimal yet. I'm just saying things could die, that's all. Happens to the best of them (and to the rest of us, too).

Let me clarify... It's your tank, you can put anything you want in there because it's yours and you just have to be able to live with yourself if it goes south. If I may impart something I learned: Stay away from damsels...you'll never get them back out. Maybe a chromie or something.

You can put whatever the heck you want in there. Maybe go to Petco or something and get one of those huge hermit crabs I've seen there so many times. They're like a dollar and are really fun to watch move around in the tank.

How about a clown or even a pair of clowns? Maybe a firefish?

Well, with a hawk you have a 50/50 chance that all those crusty's would depart. My hawk is one eating mother, and he's just a lil falco hawk. He tried to eat my chromis, and they're the same size as he is.

Update (new corals) 5/30/07: The pictures aren't the best because my wife loaned out our camera, so I just used the camcorders flash memory and took a few shots. Everything I put in is looking great, and the initial algae bloom seems to be coming close to it's life's end...which...

I like reefcentral.com, njreefers.org and manhattanreefs.com for corals. ;)