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calaxa, This will be our fifth tank, so I don't think we will have a problem adding more. :)

Calaxa, Thank you for the advice, I have not even set the tank up yet so I will be very very patient with this setup. I think I want the clam more than the angel so another fish might have to do.

Calaxa, I think I meant dwarf not pygmy angels, they get used interchangably in some books. We have a flame angel already so I would be looking at a CB, potters, or a multicolor if the economy improves.

I will be picking up a new tank and for the first time I will have MH. Further down the line, when the tank has been cycled and then established I want to try my first clam. The problem though is that my centerpiece fish I want will be some sort of dwarf angel which I heard nip at clams. Does...

We have bought all of our liverock from a LFS and have never had a problem with any hitchhikers or algae problems. Once you get something in your tank, it is next to impossible to get it out. As someone said above, you can save a lot of time, money, and grief by spending a little more and...

You might want to look at mexican turbo snails. They eat algae at a rate much faster than the other snails so you don't need to stock as many. However, they can and will knock things over so be carefull. I also like chestnut snails, I have organe ones that look great and he is always moving...

CBS are very much oppurtunistic feeders. I would not put any other shrimp in that tank, once ours molted a few times it would just eat the other shrimp. My fiancee also watched as a cleaner gobie landed on the same rock and was quickly snapped in half and eaten. We never had any corals in that...

We have a 20 g (along with 3 other tanks) and have not been using a skimmer. The nano skimmers are pretty new to the market and there are some pretty bad ones out there. The only one we tried that seemed to work was the new biocube one. We do weekly water changes on the 20 and that helps with...

Hang in there!! As someone who went from zero tanks to 4 in six months I understand. This whole hobby is trial and error, and we must all remember we are dealing with wild animals that are all very opurtunistic and don't think like we do. I think the title of an article that I read recently said...

I started a thread with the same question. What has worked for me is chemipure (or any other phosphate reducer), less light and less feeding. Also, blow the junk off your rocks before water changes to stop it from decaying on the liverock. The last step, which is really exciting, is pulling it...

Head on over to http://www.aquasd.com/livestock.html They have plenty of blues and purples from all different families of corals, from hardy to advanced. You can get blue rics for $10.

If you have corals in your tank, you probably want to try and get them out of there. When they get bigger they can destroy corals and eat some inverts. The easiest way to get rid of them is an arrow crab, but that might be to extreme if you have only one or two. Once they finish with the...

There are certain body parts I never want to see under MH. ;)

With new lights you only want to have them on for maybe 4 hours a day and ween the corals onto them. Also, depending on the bulbs, turn on the blues first then full color, helps.

I would recommend Camden, my fiancee went to law school there and we walked over a few times. They have excellent reef tanks and the rest of the aquarium is very fun. Just don't go for the local Camden tour ;)

Sounds like you got a bad piece. I have to recommend tropiquriaum, I got a piece with two heads and it has been doing wonderfully. I spot feed occasionally with mysis and brine and it does great. My secret was getting the bastard emerald crab out that was nipping at it.

Moved the duncan up in the tank last night, started opening a bit, we will see. He still looks very healthy and has not lost any of his "flesh".

I don't know about vodka dosing as this is a 12 gallon tank, and I don't want to crash it.

Thank you all for the tips, I think I need to just get in there with my hands and yank off as much as I can. When I added the phosphate sponge it started to brown over so I might be winning this battle.