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I am using RO water...I don't ever test for phosphates so I do not know what they are...and I kinda stirred up the sand bed myself already with a stick which kicked up all the stuff sitting on the sand...hopefully the w/d will pick this stuff up... I don't have time to add a clean up crew...

well what should I put in the 60g for a clean up crew??? Like I said now I only have 3 trochus, 3 maroon hermits (like scarlets) and 1 conch... what else should I add???

This is the first time I've used sand instead c.c. and after the first 3 weeks and the cycle I am kinda upset...the sand bed is totally brown and it has detris all over the top... I am using a penguin w/d to pick up the detris on the bottom, but the brown stuff is ugly.... I have 3 trochus, 3...

I see that you have opened pandora's box...congratulations...before you get flamed about putting a maxima clam under pc's I will tell you my experience and let you decide. I had a maxima under 225watts of VHO lighting in a 29g tank...the tank had been set up for over a year before I added the...

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well I wish I could put my skimmer on BOBS tank for a week and get paid $$$ for how much crap it pulls out... sure you can run w/o a skimmer...you can drive a motorcycle without a helmet and drive a car without a seatbelt. but forget the analogies... I would never run a sw tank without a...

I second the 55g tank suggestion if it is within your means...I started with a 29g and although it was l lot of fun, it was harder since the less water the more susceptable to fluctuations like salinity and other essential elements...bigger than allows for a little bigger margin of error....all...

I used the bak pak on my 29g for 2 years and it did a good job no doubt...its a great hang-on skimmer...the rio pump runs a little loud though in my opinion... I just bought a remora pro for my 60g and have been running it for 1 week...it is nice....The pro is bigger than the regular remora...

thats a mighty cool lookin xenia...it looks like the waving hands type...

Funny because when I had my 29g I always had green chromis disappearing...I had like 2 or 3 disappear over a 2 year period...I think that I had a massive bristle worm...

its 48 long 24 high and 12 wide....

hey mike did you get another tank besides your show tank??? kewl...My buddy said that he is going to drop the southdown off sometime...he is kinda a idiot sometimes...

ok lots of info, but I need clarifications... 1) I am aware of the different foods I can vary in the tangs and flame's diet...like you said mysis, live brine, some flake, and pellet foods... I can also get so calurpa and macroalgae for the tang with some lettece But what about the suppliments...

I have 440watts of vho in my canopy over my 60g... I only use two 3" radio shack fans...I really dont think its enough to be honest...but it does better than nothing...they are loud too...

have you ever kept a purple tang or any other tang??? can you give any reason for me not keeping one from your own personal experience rather than hearsay? Its easy to jump on the bandwagon and just agree with everyone, when its the cool thing to do...

A bare bottom tank would be difficult to house all the little things that make up the sw tank...I guess if you had a lot of LR??? Put some eggcrate down with a powerhead blowing detris from underneath and lots of LR on the eggcrate? Interesting...

Thanks for the info, but again I know the challenge of keeping the purple tang...I know that you could not help yourself repeating what is always said, and I appreciate your concern, but I would like to try something new...If you have something insightful and helpful to offer I would really...

when the tank is done cycling I would add some LPS corals....but you will have to monitor all your levels and perform all the tests. I would get a torch, frogspan, or hammer braching coral...definetly a brain coral too...these are more difficult than the softies and polyp corals though...

I really wish you the best...your situation sounds pretty bad...If I were you make a contract with your aunt about it...something like: If for any reason the tank should leak and damage the carpeting or tile tenant agrees to pay for 100% of the costs to replace the carpet or tile only. In turn...

I want to know how much L rock people thing is enough to make a purple tang and flame angel happy...I know they graze off the LR so I am interested to know how much LR I need and how I should set it up... currently I have 7 large pieces that weigh 50lbs they are set up with space between them so...