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they use iodine, and they are phytosthisis... they are photosynthetic no doubt but there is no proof despite extensive reasearch that they use iodine

not at all not even the slightest trace of nitrates but i alos only have 2 fish in a 55g i am not a fan of a lot of fish and also over the years i have learned that less is more with fish in a small tank like the 55 that i am speaking of in the 250 i am trying to set up i will have a few more...

i dose microvert every other day and phyto-plankton on the alternate days mainly because doing this saves me money because the phyto lasts longer this way and i have this thing in my head that gives me the impulse to dose every day i drip kalkwasser 24/7/365 and add esv bionic every day in the...

Xenia cant eat everything can eat in one form or another or there would be no survival for the species therfore xenia can eat micro vert because when it's dosed it becomes nutrients in the water and xenia can obsorb nutrients

well if that is your game plane than you can use power compacts or vho and you can loose the refugium although i would still recommend going with the original set up that i listed because right now your game plan is only a few corals but as assicting as this hobby is you will more than likley...

Octopus. octopus kill other fish in less they are incredibly larger than the octo.

i have had them both and would have to say that in your case thats a tough decession you need to decide if you want the more aggressive of the two (as stated the anularis) if so thats the one for you if not go with the blue face for the more beautiful of the 2 you may also want to considder a...

not trying to start any debates but you may want to avoid silversides and krill for any bottom dwelling aggressive fish such as an eel because the krill for one aren’t vary meaty for an eel that is 18" in the wild he is probably eating fish around an inch - 2" and is probably eating allot more...

if you are upgrading, i would suggest some type of eel like a zebra, snowflake, or tesselata. not trying to start a debate but i would strongly advise you to stay away from a tesselate in anything but alarge species only tank they get vary big and incredibly aggressive trust me i have one

you may want to look into a species that doesnt get vary large when full grown such as the valentini or blue dot or anything similar

another thought i would also recommend the addition of a refugium

there isn't really a whole lot to it just keep your water quality high I would also recommend basting them with a turkey baster about once a week just to nock off any debris

by the way thats 1.5-2 lbs of lr per gallon the more the better

as far as your filtration goes you would be best off with 1.5-2 lbs of lr for filtration a good skimmer and as far as the sand bed I’m not going to comment on that all I will say is that I have for 6 years in my 2 tanks always had 1.5-2 inches of sand and have never had anything but 0 nitrite...

pfo just came out with a new hqi pendant that you can get in 150w and 250w that comes with a 10k xm bulb and a balast for a pretty reasonable pice you may want to considder the 150 150 will be more than enough considdering that the hqi's burn alot brighter than they are rated to