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Stopped in before we got married and the store is very nice even though it is not completely setup yet. Very impressive prices on everything in the store. I will be going back very soon, picked up some snails and a pistol shrimp. Small disclaimer: I know Greg from elementary and high school but...

So this past Saturday Nicole (NikkiT) and I got married thereby establishing year 0. We are now down in Disney world enjoying 10 days down here. We will post some pics when we get home of their fish tanks in Epcot. Our camera died because it sucks, so there is not a ton but we got some cool...

That would be awesome if it came back another color but the tint is has now is green. The day after I added the mp10, the anem bubbled up huge and has been very happy. The power head was the only thing I changed at all it the tank but I don't know if it is more coincidence or causation.

Can you tell us about your tank? Size, lighting, whats in it, water parameters, how long has it been setup? Those things will help us answer your questions in general.

We had a bad heat event in the tank (lost air conditioning for 4 days while we were away and the apartment went to 88 degrees and the tanks 84-85. The anem bleached out, but is coloring up nicely. Right now it is wedged in the rocks and bubbled up more than I have ever seen it. We dose a bit of...

I was trying to be politically correct and not recommend tossing in a damsel to cycle the tank. I have not tried the raw shrimp method though I have heard about it so did not want to bring it up. That leaves the biospira method as a recommendation, and also it is a 24 hour cycle for those who...

We saw that too, if we do the urchin we will do it like MOFIB and have a separate tank. I don't want an urchin walking around with my corals.

Same vendor who sold us the bangaiis sold us the assesors. I talked to the rep at ORA who said the will be shipping out this coming week and expect them in stores in October. He said the retail price should run about 30$-40$ depending on the retailer.

We really like the tiny MOFIB ones but they were not for sale. We are hoping some day to breed them out and have an urchin in there because it is so cool to watch them swim around the spines.

One of the vendors at MACNA had them in their frag tank, he got them from a customer who breeds them. I don't remember the vendor, would have to look at a floor plan. He said if he knew the demand for cardinals he could have brought a 100 of them. Found the website of the vendor...

Forgot to mention we got a pair of yellow assesor basslets for this tank as well. Very hard to get a pic of, but they are doing well so far. When we were acclimating one decided to go carpet surfing but we got him back in quick enough. He has been a bit elusive but the other one has been great...

So we had a lot of fun at MACNA for out thirty gallon. First off hardware, we picked up a sweet ceramic magnetic frag rack. It holds on to the side of your tank and has six drilled spots for frag plugs. We are excited about it as having a nano does not give you the most room. We know we could...

As promised here are the new pics. We did not really get any new corals for the 20g at MACNA. We got some nice neon green clove that is coming out, just now fully out yet. However, our big score was four bangaii cardinals. They are all tank raised and doing very well so far. Originally I bought...

You might want to look into something like biospira that jump starts a cycle. If you have all cured liverock and have no livestock in there to start the ammonia spike which will seed the bacteria, you might not see the cycle. With something like biospira you are just adding the bacteria. I got a...

Welcome to the club and good luck with the tank. I have a pair of black and white clowns in a 12 gallon and they are fine. I don't have any other fish in there, but the clowns are a nice size for that tank.

The coral magazine that is out right now (unless they have a new one) has a HUGE article on sea squirts and their care (they are on the cover). If you can't find it let me know, we have it.

One way or another you are going to have to get the fish out either to sell them or put them in quarantine to add other fish first. The rule of thumb has been to add the most passive fish first and then add the more aggressive ones, this gives the passive ones time to setup a territory first...

We were looking for a 8 gallon container to mix saltwater and found a garbage can at Wegmans for like 5 bucks. A lot of places were doing back to school sales and garbage cans were all over the place. Works great for us.

We are going to leave it alone, we noticed as the polyps opened only like two tips did not have polyps. So far so good, the polyps are fully extended and they are bright blue which is cool. We checked for bubble and this piece had none, they got it in on thursday and we bought it on friday.

Certain fish (especially tangs) will attack a mirrored image of themselves and can easily stress themselves out leading to not so much fun stuff (ich). You can buy a background to put in the back of your tank which some people do because it can be easily taken out and cleaned. Some people like a...