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I hate them too, but they are necessary which makes them even more annoying. When I pulled my whole sandbed out with everything else I realized I had almost no cleanup crew left because they canabalize each other. I had to buy a whole new one and within one week they started picking each other off.
I think chaoscat just put the whole hobby into one good analogy. Junk, keep your head up we both spend the tough times watching our fish tanks and it is very relaxing.
Most LPS ususlly like a lower flow, if you are going to do SPS then you want to go higher. We have a nano in our 20g just to provide some flow in the tank. We only have zoos and mushrooms in there and they are all doing just fine. However, in our 30 g we have 2 Korlia 2s because we have SPS in...
If robbies reef has mandarins that take frozen, I would make the trip and pick them up. Also, my fiance and I are currently converting a mandarin over to frozen food. We started with a live brine culture (very easy to setup)and tigger pods then we went over to rods coral food now we are working...
We have a flame angel and a cherub angel. The flame is in 20 g (going to be moved into a 30 g very soon) that is filled with zoos and LPS and he picks at nothing. We just added a clam so we will see how that goes. The cherub angel is still in quarantine and is doing well. They are the smallest...
Mandarins can be taught to accept frozen food, it just takes a lot of effort. With your side tank, if you don't teach it to take frozen foods it will probably starve.