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Very good advice from people here, but just wanted to say a few things. I would avoid very coarse sand and gravel, they can trap detritus and become nitrate factories. When picking out your sump consider what other equipment you want to put in stand. Sounds like you are going with an in sump...

+1 With the right coral placement you will be right as rain.

If you are dosing VSV then it would be redundant to have bio pellets.

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You might want to try bio pellets in the carbon reactor instead of more phosban. They take a little while to work but should help.

As Jim said I picked up a mounting bracket that is mounted underneath my tank in the stand. I will try and get a picture so you can see how I do it.

We have had our RBTA since July of 2010 and it does this quite often (I want to say almost every time) and always comes right back out. If the params are pretty exact you don't have to worry. I would be concerned if it stayed closed for a long amount of time or moved, then something is...

Take a look at the marine magic dosers on ebay. I have one and love it, they are much cheaper than the expensive ones and are essentially Chinese knock offs. When I started dosing I essentially read the directions for what I was dosing with (brightwell calcion and brightwell alk 8.3) and...

I do not have a sump in the basement (I will one day) but I know from other salt in the air can be an issue if not properly planned for. If you have the space you can build a sump room which will limit the amount of airflow around the basement. I know this is a little big, but the guy put in a...

Thank you for your replies, you have had such great growth it is nice to share your regiment. I know others who have had great success with zeo and think it is in my near future.

Thank you for the reply, what do you think is the one thing that has helped you out the most? Or is is a combination of all of them?

Nice piece, can you tell us about your system?

You might want to pair up the clown, it is pretty easy to do and they really do better in pairs. A dwarf angel would be a good call as well, coral beauties and flames are pretty similiar as far as aggression goes. Every fish can be a bit different so it really is going to depend on the one you...

The BRS dual reactor is a solid one, I ran one for a while and loved it. Order two extra plastic reactor chambers, it makes swapping them out really easy.

I think carbon is really important to run in your tank and have always had it on my tanks and my wife has had it on her tanks for over 10 years. There was a study done that shows that adding carbon in a reactor does more to drop dissolved organics than running a skimmer. I use Rox carbon from...

I have kept fire shrimp and cleaner shrimp together and you probably won't have a problem. However you stated it is a FOLWR tank, are there any fish in there that might cause a problem?

Thank you to Bob for setting this up once again and thank you to everyone that showed. It is always good to spend a nice day on the beach and making it clean.

I know Greg at Reef 2 reptiles carries KB, I am not sure who else. You can probably ask in their forum.

I know AO carries it, where are you located?

The Hanna calc you have to be careful with that final step of "shaking" it up as any airbubbles in there will give you a false reading. Also, any fingerprints on the vial can give you a false reading. The other thing to look at is margin of error. All the test kits have a margin of error and...