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My wife is pretty prone to accidental fragging whenever her hands are in the tank. It was fun watching her taking a frag plug that was glued onto a frag shelf and when she removed it the momentum slammed the frag into the glass and split it in half (Rommells rainbow SPS and yes it is expensive)...
Our 20g has an mp10 running and the returns from our skimmer and fuge, it is mostly sps and we have a bunch of flow. Unless the pistols are digging, things dont get turned up. The 30g has an mp20 and the same skimmer and fuge (all running off of MJ1200) and again we don't have an issue unless...
We use the figi pink sand, it is a bigger particle than the oolite sand but not huge like crushed coral. Our bluespot jawfish and tiger shrimp can stir it up a bit but it settles back down pretty quickly.
One of the guys I work with just got the chumby and loves it. Has a ton of stuff and not that ridiculously priced depending on what you want.
http://www.chumby.com/
I am in the anti emerald crab camp. Every time I have gotten one they little bugger molts, get bigger and becomes annoying. They can pick at corals and small fish and have gone after my shrimp. I have not had one that made a noticeable difference in algae and they always wind up in a refugium...
The gen 2 maxspect LEDs look really really really interesting. May have to give them a shot.
Here is the seller:
http://www.fish-street.com/maxspect_programmable_led_aquarium_lighting?category_id=118
The RC thread discussing them...
I had crushed coral in two of our tanks (12g and 20g) before I knew any better. When we found on that is was no good, we went out and bought live sand and did exactly what you were thinking. We pulled everything out of the tanks, drained and took out the sand, put in the new live sand, waited...
Well with all the phyto and rotifers you have been growing, you will have plenty of food for that beautiful clam. From what I have been told the bigger ones are a bit easier to keep as they can synthesize most if not all of their food on their own. Good luck.
When I said move the anem, I was saying that if it had just been introduced and was on a piece of live rock that could be moved. I agree, I would not be in there trying to force it off of a piece of rock or whatever. My point was when my clowns were hosting my frogspawn, I pulled the frogspawn...
If you can, move the frogspawn to a different area and move the anem to where the frogspawn is. I did that with my clowns and they jumped right into the anem. If they are comfortable in the anem it is going to take a long time for them to make the jump.
Sorry, thought you meant you were coming down from way up north. It is late and I did just finish watching Duke win so I am a little slow. Well hopefully it will help someone else out. :)
Have not posted some pics in a while and they have all been coral pics, so now some fish pics.
Cardinals:
Neon cleaner goby:
All black clowns tip to tip:
Gold Assessor:
Two of the yasha:
And a FTS: