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Not really, off the top of my head I really don't know to many pests that outright attack softies and LPS (the excpetions being zoas). I am not saying that fish or inverts will go after them, but actual pests that just exist to eat them. Between red bugs, acro eating flatworms, and monti...
You can get away with the SPS in the 24g tank, just put them up really high and don't keep them in there for too long. Just dip observe and re dip. What some people are doing is the immediately cut the frag off the disk or whatever it is on beacuse the eggs are typically laid on the undersid...
Motepora caps are very easy and generally very cheap. Digipora, spongedes, and the birdsnests types (seriatopa) are all considered beginner SPS. Now to save yourself a ton of headaches just a couple of tips. SPS can very easily bring in pests that can take over your tank and be a royal PIA to...
Depends on how the ebay vendor is. I know some people have like the sand from marco rocks and the price is good. There is a nother vendor out there that does rock and sand that a lot of people on here like, I just can't remember the name, hopefully someone will chime in.
The ATO would be on the sump chamber with your return. The water chamber does not have to be very big, I used a 5g tank on my 45g system and refilled it like once a week. ATO is a big help IMO and will really help the tank out. I may have an extra one laying around after my tank breakdowns, I...
That was an amazing tank, so sorry for your losses. If you can do it, start over. We went through this exact scenario in March of 2009 when we lost power for three days and crashed 3 tanks. I just put up a post in this thread about the first steps of starting over...
We crashed all three of our tanks several years ago due to a power outage, I will go through what we did.
First take a minute to think about your system and if there was anything you would change because now is the time to do it. Any equipment changes or aquascaping or anything at all do it...