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How long are you running your lights for? I assume you did not have that much light in the nano and you might want to acclimate your corals to the more intense light from the hqi. Also, algae feeds on light, nitrates, and phosphate so cutting out any of these things will probably help you.

Thanks Bob, I will try that.

I think you made a great choice. I have the 12g and love it. I agree with JohnS in throwing out the ceramic rings and bioballs. Basically they are there to host bacteria, but your live rock will do a better job of that, also they can trap gunk. I took my sponge out and added live rock rubble...

We have something very similiar growing in our 20g, it is a sponge.

Welcome to the hobby, you will have a great time. The nano cubes are actually pretty nice to have and are a good starter kit becuase they are plug and play. If you have a lot of birthday cash you might want to look into the red sea tanks. They come in 35 and 65 gallon and are great systems to...

We also have a 20g high, and are quite amazed at what it can do. What sort of hardware do you have on that system? We are looking to upgrade and are looking for some suggestions.

The ice idea is for our 30 as well. We have MH on there and it is already starting to run a little hot in the apartment. I have the JBJ 12 gallon and with the hood i really don't have to deal with that much evaporation issues, and salinity is balanced out with weekly water changes.

You can go out and buy a complete auto top off unit and get the pumps and sump. I believe that might be a bit overkill for a 12g tank. If you have good knowledge of pumps and plumbing you might be able to rig something, I personally have none of that. You can also look for a Kent doser which is...

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If you are hooked now, just wait until you play the multi-player. Not only is it really really fun, but of course there are challenges and levels to achieve that will keep you coming back for more. I have not played single player in over a year, so sorry I cannot help you on that front.

Tangs are VERY susceptible to Ich, Hippos especially.

Now I feel guilty about starting this thread. :'(

You may want to get some garlic, apparently it helps out with the slime coat on your fish. We had ich in our 20g, quarantined everything and still lost fish. We used some stuff that did not work at all. The only thing that cured our fish was copper which is like using a sledgehammer but can get...

I am about to change my 250w bulb as well. It seems that the IceCap 14k is the most popular. Has anyone used the Geismann 12.5k or 14.5k? Those were the two bulbs I was looking at.

And all I can say is I'm impressed, looks like it is coming along really well.

The fiancee neglected to mention that plenty of species are protected; if you try and ship them to the US or bring them in yourself, without a permit, you could end up being fined, or worse, if the species is protected abroad, in jail in your vacation destination. If the species you are...

Thanks Diverrk. I was asking because I have a very, very small piece of rock, about 1" x1" with seven watermelon mushrooms on it. A few of the watermelon mushrooms that were on the rock (at one point it had 9) detached themselves and re-attached to other piece of live rock in my tank, but I have...

Nobody like a naysayer, but I think you should wait. I have stressed fish moving a 10 gallon, I could never imagine moving a 210g. Unless you can get 20 of your fellow reefers responsible for just moving 11g a piece I think you could do it. ;)

We started the brine culture for our mandarin but really don't feed it to all the fish, and once the mandarin is on frozen or we have enough pods we will probably retire the culture. We have reef nutrition phyto for our clam and we also use their artic pods which are nice. We have also used...

We don't feed the brine anything and feed them to the fish when they are small. Brine shrimp are like popcorn, fish love to eat it but they have almost no nutrional value. When they are smaller, they will have more nutrional value, so that is the best time to use them as food. We also add...