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If it was skimming fine and now it stopped it might be there is nothing to skim from the water. If the skimmer is over sized it might do this. I have this happen occasionally but it usually starts forming a head within one day. The key thing is to make sure you have a nice form production. Air...
These fish do not have a very good track record. It's quite a crap shoot so you might need to go through a few of them before you find one that lives.
I heard good things about piecesoftheocean. That's probably the way I would go.
It's better to get juvies as the adult are difficult to adjust...
JrHR - I and not sure how much the shrimp eats but I don't see a significant decline of the asterina population. Maybe I jus have too many and they all come of of the rock work after the shrimp is introduced.
I remember you were doing carbon dosing. Did it yield any positive result? It is very common for a new setup to go thru many phases of algae blooms so maybe you can give the carbon dosing a little more time.
Very minor aggression from the female. They swam together for a little while then the male went to bed early, slept vertically by the overflow long before the light out. He must have a jet lag.