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We used to dose copper in our QT in the beginning but now we just go with food. PE mysis seems to be the mysis of choice around here so I would look for that. Also realize that these are cures WHEN you get the problem. If the fish does not have signs of ick yet you don't have to go to extreme...

We are the same way, when our AC went out temp spike to around 84 which was way to high.

We use Brightwell garlic, you can buy it at most stores and we like it. We don't have tangs but we use garlic to boost all of our fish. We have been using selcon for about a month as well to help out with the fish. So far so good, and our flamback angel got over his ick with no problem. We did...

We had some heat issues with our tanks last week and lost our xenia (among others). How is the temp in your tank been?

I have never kept a tang, however from what I have read adding selcon to your food can help. Read the reviews on this site, I use selcon and love it...

Beautiful tank, very nice deal with the whole setup. I don't think you would have any problem doing an anem with clowns. In our thirty we have 2 Koralia #2s and 2 maxijet 1200s providing flow for the skimmer and the refugium and our anem is fine. With a 6 bulb T5 setup you can pretty much do...

Make sure you cover that bad boy tight, ours jumped a few weeks ago and I was not thrilled.

If you can get them, try blacksworms my duncans loved them.

Those blue dots are escape artist so be carefull, they also love to reaquascape anything on the sand bed. Before he jumped (through half inch grating) he rearranged all of our frags on the sand and one vanished on us. Mandarins are tough and unless you have a huge pod population, or are adding...

Biospira and the like are to speed up a cycle by adding bacteria that is not there. I have never heard it being used to reduce ammonia, I guess in theory it might work but a water change would probably be better.

Here is the thread I was talking about. http://www.njreefers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=18900.0

There are a couple of benefits to moon light that I can think of off the top of my head. Most people try to create as natural an environment as possible and moon lighting ties into the theory (check out Rehypes build with his led lights). Secondly, most bad things in our tanks like to come out...

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My favorite snails are the nassarius as they keep the sand bed stirred and are actually interesting to watch (ceriths as well). Hermits are all a necessary evil, they can be nasty little buggers but they do help the tank. Our chestnut snails with the orange snails are also really cool (before...

Any fish can jump, we just had a cleaner goby jump out of our 20g. I have heard of clowns and angels jumping as well. Sometimes you just get unlucky. Clowns will host anything they become comfortable with. My clowns currently host zoos in my 12g and before we got the anem they hosted frogspawn...

Unfortunatley the only two places I know are in monmouth county, Trop and a little pet store on route 35 in Wall.

We have a coral beauty in a 30g and he can be a bit bossy and aggressive. I am sure in a 90g one would be fine. We have a mixed sps and zoa tank and have not seen him nip anything, and we do keep him well fed.

Harlequin shrimp are not hermaphoditic like cleaners and the rest so if you want a pair, make sure you are buying them as a pair. If you get two males they will fight especially over the food. We just added a new star after they decimated the old one. It is cool to watch them feed but it can...

I think you made a great choice with the clowns, pairs always seem to do better. The corals you picked should also do well, as most of them are pretty low maintanence. As James said, now we just need the pics.

I had a pair of harlequins for a while and eventually got rid of them (one sold the other eaten by a hermit during a molt). I got chocolate chip stars at trop. They are the cheapest option out there but they are not reef safe. You can also get sand sifter stars, but they run a bit more expensive...