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We just went the whole nine yards, pulled everything out of the tank, drained it and removed all the crushed coral at one time. We then scrubbed the tank put down the sand bed and put the live rock back in and let the water clear. Once the water was clear we put all the fish and corals back in...
While I am no expert, we just did setup a 30g tank so we might have some tips for you. The Remora skimmer is a great choice, we have the same one and it does a hell of a job. We also added a cpr small HOB refugium to put some chaeto in to help out, I don't think you have to do it, put extra...
Just ordered two pieces of coral from Dr. Mac and I am rather impressed with the whole process. I placed the order (40% off btw) and recieved an e-mail and phone confirmation when they shipped. The packaging was very well done and it was delivered early the next morning right on time. They also...
I just had to do my annual updating of the cleanup crew and it is a necessary evil. I noticed the difference in one day ind the decrease of algae on my sandbed. Hermits are always going to go after a shell once they want it so you are going to lose snails. Fortunatly, snails are very cheap which...
Sorry, Hawkeye should have looked back and seen who made the post. I confuse all of you gods who walk among us mortal reef keepers in these threads. ;)
I hate them too, but they are necessary which makes them even more annoying. When I pulled my whole sandbed out with everything else I realized I had almost no cleanup crew left because they canabalize each other. I had to buy a whole new one and within one week they started picking each other off.
I think chaoscat just put the whole hobby into one good analogy. Junk, keep your head up we both spend the tough times watching our fish tanks and it is very relaxing.
Most LPS ususlly like a lower flow, if you are going to do SPS then you want to go higher. We have a nano in our 20g just to provide some flow in the tank. We only have zoos and mushrooms in there and they are all doing just fine. However, in our 30 g we have 2 Korlia 2s because we have SPS in...