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John I think the Mickey mouse trim makes the tank.

Our corals were doing amazing for while when we started to notice some recision at the base of some of our SPS. We started testing and alk was coming back 9.3 (or something similiar) so we just kept an eye on things. Corals started to get worse, we kept testing and everything was coming back...

We ran into issues because we were doing everything right and had equipment failure. That was disheartening when you are doing everything you can and a piece of equipment (or several) fail and leave you shaking your head.

Good luck with them, time to look at the avast ATO or the one they have at AO which is the same. They will not fail like the others.

That star is a good one, it will do fine in the display or fuge. It is a good clean up crew member.

What are you using to test nitrates?

For those that were at our Frag swap back in June, you might remember a vendor we had Dirk. He had a huge booth with a ton of dry goods. He basically drives around the country going to different swaps selling dry goods. His van with all his reefing equipement was stolen in Ohio this week. If...

Flasher wrasses are really your best bet, a pair of them would do great in a 60 cube and they are not aggressive. You could look at a melanarus wrasse which are peaceful but might pickup off inverts depending on what you want to put in the tank. Leopard wrasses are incredibly peaceful but you...

Avoid the flaming prawn goby, they disapear in my 12g tank and there are many other people with the same experience. It is an expensive fish that you will never see. For the dracula goby, look for a tiger or candy cane pistol as they seem to be the best at pairing with shrimp and being reef...

They seem to be hit or miss. Some people love them, some people have lost every fish they ordered.

Off to a good start. this is an old post, but Mark knows what he is talking about: http://www.melevsreef.com/reducing_nitrates.html

Depends on what you are running in it. Different medias will require different volumes of media. Check which one you are going to use and roughly how much you will need. BRS has a nifty calculator on their site to help you figure it out.

I ran mine on a 45g cube and was happy with them. I have the jumbos now and am still happy with them.

Without a doubt call Chris then, if it is an issue with the fixture it should be covered under warranty. He can also walk you through it to see if it can be fixed. Good luck. I had some issues with the fans getting loud and after a phone call had new ones shipped to me for nothing, it was an...

One of the benefits of the mazzara is that you can change the bulbs very easily if you want to experiment with the color. We added red, green, and fiji pink style bulbs to ours.

Yes aquatic obsessions, it was priced very well, unfortunately their sale ended today, but it is still a good price.

The easiest thing to do it go to bulk reef supply and get their 1/4 inch clear mesh, nothing is making it through that and clear is always better. Good call on skipping the naokos, besides the fact that they are active swimmer, they are incredibly aggressive fish. Helfrichis are real deal...

That is a good stock list, actually understocked. The only caveat to that is when clowns begin to spawn they can become aggressive. When you stock a nano (we had a 30g cube for a few years), you just have to pay attention to where the fish "live" in the water column. For example, the clowns...

My lineatus killed my rhomboid too. We are going with a pair of rhomboids soon as they are a lot more peaceful than the lineatus.

We pulled a pylie wrasse, rosefasciata wrasse, and the one that hurt the most our lineatus wrasse. The rosefasciata was a mistaken ID that we would have never put in the tank if I had known it was a rose as they are known for aggression. The pylie was picking on the attenuatus and some of the...