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We are please to announce we will be having our holiday party again this year. The date is Dec. 17 and it will be at the Spain Inn http://www.spaininn.net/one/directions.html we will be updating this later on with prices. Please consider this a save the date thread and if you guys want please...

Sounds like a great plan Steve, it was very nice briefly meeting you at trop the other day. I know there are a lot of local people who would help you out with the tank move. I would also ask Trop if you can borrow their suction cup moving things. They make the job 10 times easier.

Enjoy your day everyone!!!

That is the thought, go slow and steady. By doing smaller ones every week you should be able to ease your way into it. You can also test your system as far as alk, calc, and mag go and test the newly mixed salt water to see if they are way off. If they are then you might want to go even...

Go slow, don't shock your system. How often and what percentage do you do water changes?

Montipora spongedes, not sure on the spelling of the second part. Very easy to keep coral, generally a SPS training wheels type.

The scientific name is Acanthastrea Lordhowensis which was shortened to Acan Lord and now just Acan as they have become incredibly popular and available in the recent past. Looks like a nice frag, watch the angel around it. Angels are known to like fleshy LPS, like an acan, and if it looks...

Essentially you need to introduce a form of ammonia to kickstart the cycle to get your tank ready. Back in the day, people would add a damsel fish but that practice really ended because it is really inhumane to the fish and nobody wants the damsel in their tank because of how nasty and hard to...

Really like the pictures, go team 45g! Is that a branching monti in the third pic? It is really nice. For the gorgonians (especially the blueberry) what are you feeding it? I would recommend getting decapsulated brine shrimp eggs. You can easily feed those a few times a day. The blueberry...

Make sure before you switch from the glass tops you have something in place for the evaporation because it will start to happen.

Glass lids are generally taken off for two reasons. The first is what you alluded about with light penetration through the glass and also the fact that the glass will get build up on which takes away from it. The second reason is heat, glass traps the heat in the tank which can make your tank...

I moved this over here to tale of the tank so it would be easier to follow and not get lost in the general discussion threads. Thank you for setting this thread up and can't wait to follow it along.

Looks like cyano, can't really tell from the pics. Have you had any temperature issues recently? How long are you running the light for? When you replaced the bulb, how old was the bulb before it? How deep is your sand bed and as Nikki said did anything churn it up recently? Have you ever...

Correct.

If you go over to BRS right on the top of their website is a calculator. You can enter in your total water volume and they will give you the exact amount. Works good for someone like me who is not good at math.

It is a sponge, and I agree with darren it can choke out some corals. Sponges are mostly beneficial for water quality and what not but again I would not let them get to close to the corals. Where some run into problems with the sponges is when they are exposed to air they begin to die rapidly...

It is always the little things that get in the way. In my old apartment, the tank and stand looked great until I filled it with water and then I realized how sloped back to front it was. I shimmed it on up but it messed up my plans around the tank and had to change it around.

Time for some pics: Sun coral: Clowns: Whole bunch of random shots from my frag rack. Yes I just posted these in the other thread but wanted to preserve them here as well:

Arabella from Jason Fox (Have been wanting this for 7 months): No named favia from Fox: Toxic Pie from Fox (I have been trying to get a frag of this for almost 2 years) Fox's Purple Polyp Scroll Coral: Chalice from zoanthids.com (yes I got a chalice from zoanthids.com)

Also forgot, take a level when the tank is empty and full and put it on the front, back and side of the tank to see if there is any areas that are not level.