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The BRS dual reactor is a solid one, I ran one for a while and loved it. Order two extra plastic reactor chambers, it makes swapping them out really easy.
I think carbon is really important to run in your tank and have always had it on my tanks and my wife has had it on her tanks for over 10 years. There was a study done that shows that adding carbon in a reactor does more to drop dissolved organics than running a skimmer. I use Rox carbon from...
I have kept fire shrimp and cleaner shrimp together and you probably won't have a problem. However you stated it is a FOLWR tank, are there any fish in there that might cause a problem?
Thank you to Bob for setting this up once again and thank you to everyone that showed. It is always good to spend a nice day on the beach and making it clean.
The Hanna calc you have to be careful with that final step of "shaking" it up as any airbubbles in there will give you a false reading. Also, any fingerprints on the vial can give you a false reading. The other thing to look at is margin of error. All the test kits have a margin of error and...
I personally like Rod's Food, it has mysis and a ton of other things in it. KB Pet Products (a sponsor) also has several great frozen foods that are blends of many things. I also try and mix in live black worms and live brine. Yes my fish eat better than I do.
I agree with JR, I have always had success with t5s and think they are great. My 45 cube has had a 5 bulb fixture over it with SPS and nems and have never had a problem, you just have to be more conscious with where you put the corals.
Rukis insanoes, really nice.
http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/world-wide-corals/69609-wake-up-r2r-its-been-too-2.html
Go to post 13, they are the last ones.
Here is a guy who did just what you are talking about:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1767159
I know the thread is really really long but I think he discusses the setup over the first few pages.
We have had pistol shrimp do the same thing. When we moved our 20g we found 2 in there that we thought were dead and had been replaced (so we found 3 total). I hear you with building right next to a place where you can't see them.
Keep an eye on those pink and golds they grow at an incredibly high rate and can/will choke out other zoas/palys around them. I took them out of my tank after they tried to drown out my nuclear greens. I was lucky enough to have them on an isolated rock.