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Our pump isn't a dart, it is a Sequence 5800 (don't know the "name" on it) and the whole basement sounds like something out of a White Noise Generator test facility. When it is running I can't tell one really noisy pump from the next. Luckily I don't care how much noise it makes since I don't...
That green thing looks like a piece of Macro algae. The tank looks good. If you're seeing brown dusty stuff then it is likely diatoms and will go away in time as the tank matures and the extra silicates burn off.
Good that you're going to get them both at the same time if you must have 2 angels in your tank. I had a flame angel chase a bellus right out of the tank on me. There she sat up on the cross brace, in perfect safety from her tank mate. RIP.
We took the flame angel out of the tank because PE...
Chase, Cool that you got to experience the tank "after dark". You definitely see some great stuff at that hour.
Ed, how long depends a lot on how stocked/overstocked your main tank is (not taking into consideration your sump volume) and what fail overs, if any, you have for your system. A...
Long tenticles sound more like aptasia than a mojano though (think lesser of two evils there). A little Kalk paste in a syringe would knock them out or some peppermints. Rock that can come out easily you can scrape them out of the knook that they're in. That's by far the easiest way to rid them.