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I'll put it this way.... I have an aqua c that I used on my 50g, when I upgraded that tank to a 70g RR it came with a new more powerful skimmer. My plan was to use the remora on my 30g cube... I can't bring myself to hook it up yet because I remember how darn loud it was! Having some sort of...

Cleaner might be ok, I'd assume a sexy would be either a) impossible to see or b)eaten by something else you have in there... could be confused as to types but aren't the sand sifting stars the ones that usually starve in our systems? If you go for a cleaner try to get one at least as big as...

I'm heading to a kid's b'day party right now but I'll get you some shots when I get home later today. Carlo, no worries on any posts.... you have infinitely more knowledge then I do in this hobby and I enjoy learning reading your posts. My "I sound like I work for them" posts about marcorocks...

Sorry! I hope you're able to get back into the larger tanks again soon. Until then really make your 20g something great and that should help, plus as corals start growing to big for it you can sell frags off and save up for your next big system! I love my new 70g but stand by my comments that my...

I'm so glad you've had the same experience, and people are less likely to think I'm making this up or nuts hehee As for passing through the return, I can't really say... I'd imagine they can get through since when I stir things up in the sump larger particles then they are seem to get blown...

Happy to share, not really sure how to catch them since they are tiny & fast but I think if I grabbed some cheato and LR from my sump and gave it a good shake/swish in a baggy of water you'd get a good number. Welcome to come by anytime, I'm in Port Monmouth!

Some where along the road of getting corals & LR from fellow reefers I introduced some mysis in my tanks. Now I've been told and read " Mysid shrimp are very difficult to culture because they are highly cannibalistic " which would make me think that I'd see a few here and there in the tanks...

Besides my fear of bristleworms and other things I always wear gloves as I also got all itchy, minor hives, working in the tanks... I hated those orange/purple gloves (really to big for me anyways) but couldn't feel anything and was to hard to work with. I ordered the nerite (?) yellow ones from...

I'm sure others with much more experience will chime in but IMO if you are reading ammonia & higher nitrates (not that 10 is all that high but I know in a reef we try to keep them as low as possible) I'd do a water change for sure. I'd also slowly up the salinity, I keep mine at 1.025 which I...

I actually ended up going with the Oral b triumph, mainly because it has the smaller brush head which I felt would be easier for me to fit on in the back of my mouth to get my wisdom teeth (still have them), and also because at the time amazon.com had a promotion going where if you spent "x"...

In my old 50g and in my 24g aquapod I reaquascape what feels like weekly LOL between deciding I don't like how something looks, or two corals getting to close, or having to catch a fish etc. Since everything was balanced just so touching one rock usually meant a few hour long headache. I'd just...

skimmed the tread so hopefully I'm not repeating anything... when my PC bulbs were 6 months I started running into all sorts of algae problems (and at the time didn't even think of the bulb age DOH) once I changed them it really helped, as did upping my cleaning crew. Drsfostersmith.com offers a...

easiest way for me... hammer & screwdriver (as chisel) LOL

Given the 2 maxijet900's w/ the rotating hydor & locline Y pretty much everything everywhere gets flow, varied/indirect flow and not hard/direct but yes they get a good amount of flow. I've actually had the best luck with rics & LPS in this tank, zoas are very hit or miss which is to bad as I...

I try to pretend the bristles are furry little caterpillars ;) For the record the big ones do scare me too, I have a post on here somewhere or other about the giant purple one I used to have in my tank. I love unexpected freebies in this hobby, but could do without the buggy hitchhikers... I...

I noticed the same thing this morning in my tank, however I did move pumps and added a hydor 3 yesterday so I'm assuming it'll settle back down in a day or two

I love the rock I got from him, hands down the best looking rock I've seen in person. I'm so glad I found out about him before I upgraded my tank... any future tanks I have will use his rock seeded with LR :) Every hole in them are crawling with pods & mysid already too!

No worries Carlo, you know far more about reefing then I do and I appreciate your information as always... I never really thought about the whole "doubles in weight when wet" but obviously as you've pointed it that's one of those common myths we say w/o really thinking about in this hobby. What...

If you have time and want to save money I'd look into dry rock from marcorocks.com (and remember that since it's dry double the weight, ie a 25lbs is about 50lbs wet rock) I couldn't be happier with the rock I got from him and since it was dry it was really easy to work with to create the look I...

I think he meant he wanted the largest volume in a 36" tank? I don't have the tech but I LOVED the look/size of the oceanic 70g RR tanks, I got prices from a couple places for the tank & stand (still hope to have a canopy made) and they were pretty high... ended up keeping an eye here and on...