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me thinks Merv is starting to be tempted by "the dark side"

I usually would put pappa in the 10g, yes. Less stress on the babies then (all you need to do is flip the breeder net to free them). After birth, pappa goes back to the main tank, and yes, fed him HEAVILY. Imagine how hungry you are after a day without food, now try 21 days.. LOL I had a few...

I've kept them with long spined urchins, aka Diademia urchins.  But never with the parents.  Pappa is SOOO hungry after spitting them out, I didn't want him in the tank with the babies any longer then he had to be. Basically, after I did the breeder net for catching the babies, I would move...

Just a thought on return pumps mashing up critters.. I have a red scooter blenny in my 300g reef. I did not put him there. He was put in a 30g breeder on my system, and managed to make the trip over the overflow, through my drain plumbing, into my sump, and THROUGH my Ampmaster 3000, then the...

I've bred them, and also clowns. Bangaiis are much easier, for sure. For starters, finding a pair isnt always easy. Not sexually dimorphic, so males look just like females. Some say that males have a longer dorsal fin (if it hasnt broken off or been chewed) or a more "bulldog like" mouth (which...

blah blah blah, money money money If I had a dime for everytime.... ANYWAY A switch at the host went and needed to be swapped out, that entailed ordering one, and waiting for it. Hence the slowdown. Man, if you guys knew half of the hardware upgrades RC has had, your heads would spin. From a...

better late than never... On shrooms, BAH on the light most of the time. Pacific rics like lower light (the blues or reds, TRUE rics), Atlantic Rics can deal with most light. I have some regular, wagon wheel mushrooms, and they grow right up my standpipe under 250w MH. If thats not TOO MUCH...

1.) One cup of salt mix per how many gallons of RO water? Depends on the salt mix, but I typically use 2 cups of salt for 4 gallons. your mileage may vary, but you can always go light and salt as needed. 2.) What is the rule of thumb for the size of pump for 72 gallon tank? Trick question...

I should be there with the wife as well..

Happy Belated!

i'm 50/50 on attending, gotta see what the doc says before I commit..

I'll have to drag you up here Bill.. When I say aggressive, I mean on contact. Its a fast grower, great for fragging, and easily fragged. Don't be so shy about aggressive things, most LPS can be pretty aggressive, more-so then the lemnalia...

Lots of mushrooms? That could be the problem right there.. There's fierce warfare between leathers and mushrooms, some leathers (Colts) will just melt down on contact. Others (toadstools and sinularias) just seem to have a severe slow-down in growth. Do you run carbon? MH is plenty fine, I...

I have a few types of frags.. That green sinu is almost fragged (been attaching other frags so far, but I will be fragging around 5 off that baby soon).. I have creme sinu, pink lemnalia (aggressive!), greenish/bluish finger, yellow sinu all mounted so far..

Mr Gem Tang (yes, he's reef safe)

Bah, black tangs are sooooo overrated.. who wants a shadow swimming in their tank? If you are gonna spend the cash on a tang, get the GEM tang..

Hey Bill, I am the people upstairs, AND downstairs :) LOL.. I put the 300 downstairs, that I wasn't putting upstairs without reinforcements and didnt feel like reinforcing the floor, so slab in the basement won over reinforcing the first floor :)

Think of it like this.. A baby grand piano weighs how much? And it sits on 3 tiny little legs... *most* floors should support a 90, always put the tank perpendicular to the joists, and if possible on a load bearing wall..

As far as I know, there is no one book thats a guide to keeping SPS..  Basically, I can sum it up easily, a well established tank, stability, excellent water quality, lots of circulation and high powered lighting.. As for the differences between  digi, monti, acro etc, its the family and...