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Put a little bit of tank water in a container, get a little metal mesh bowl (the word is escaping me rit now), let the food thaw and then just take the food right out. You can rinse it a bit more if you are picky, but the water it thawed in holds most of the phosphates. Toss the nasty water out...

Bloodworms are notorious for high phosphates. Rinsing food is always a good idea. Also glad to see you did not rush to correct anything and thought it over.

I know I really should not do this since the Giants are also bad but I laughed:

That looks pretty good to me, given the picture. Lighting will generally change the appearance of SPS so keep an eye on it and enjoy it.

True icefire echinata has that white base. Is it losing the blue at all?

You can get it straight from Dr. Tim and also from Amazon it looks like.

Good to hear, I just put in my second dose tuesday. The first was half strength and the second a little below full. We will see how things go. I am also stepping up water changes and what not. Glad to hear it at least did not hurt.

Make it a swear jar for all the times you will be cursing this hobby and it will fill up nice and quick. Dance

Big +1 to this. We have had our nano up and running now since November of 2008 and have tried just about everything our there that will fit in the back chamber. The worst things were the filter pad and live rock. All they do is trap detritus and really just hurt your tank. We put the media...

Welcome back John. We just added one of these for our 12g, but they make ones for all sized tanks. They also have a ton of stuff that is nano specifc and some really smart things like the curved corner scraper that is awesome for AIO nanos. http://www.mediabaskets.com/

Are you going under stand or a fish room? In sump or external? There is some great equipment out there depending on which way you are going. I went from a 57g to a 205 and am happy with it. The 205 is in the same spot as the 57g so we just had to plan around the move.

Fantastic!

Montis look great John! suggestion- if you have not thrown away the plate skeleton yet, don't. They have been known to bud babies when they look dead.

Tank looks really nice. Well scaped and the corals look great and are placed really well

We try and go whenever we are on vacation. Nikki grew up in Abu Dahbi in the UAE so she was snorkeling over there which has fantastic reefs. We have been snorkeling/SNUBA/SCUBA in Aruba and St. Maartin.

Then she crashed her fw tank in law school and switched to saltwater and then I was hooked.

You can never be to aggressive when you are setting a tank up, mistakes now just snowball. You have the time and don't have to worry about live stock so go aggressive as you want. For next time, Dr. Tim sells the ammonia on his website with the one and only which is perfect to start a cycle.

I have those worms, but have not clogged up my overflow (knock on wood). Get in there and pull them out or use a pair of clippers to cut the shell to kill the worm.

Mine should be here tomorrow, I guess I should have ordered from Amazon instead of straight from the site.