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generally speaking you should not put corals into a new tank. Live rock is almost a must have. You should start out with the live rock and live sand and get the tank cycled. Before you do anything - make sure you have the basics: test kits, lighting, powerhead(s), good filtration just to name...

what size tank are we talking about here? The 20 nitrate is not bad - it is a bit stressful on inverts - but not bad for the fish. Nitrates at high levels will kill inverts - fish on the other hand are simply stressed out and made more susceptible to other problems by this. If you have a larger...

how long has this tank been set up? you should have 0 ammonia unless you are still cycling or something has recently died in it.

Originally Posted by KrazeKajin is the window screen to prevent light shock from the new more powerful bulb? Yes - that's correct The aptasia touching it could definitely be a problem as they are stingers

two to three days is pretty typical with these - so I agree with the other posters

if this is a new addition to your tank you should start it out lower and then move it up in the tank - it should be fine at the level you stated.

you may have been having an issue with the lighting intensity - if it came from lower lighting then high lighting will shock it - thus when you placed it lower in your tank it was not under such stress. Frogspawn typically enjoys medium light and low to medium flow.

this can be done pretty much at any time of your choosing as long as they are not in a healing or stressed condition. The plugs are simply a temporary mounting for them although some will simply mount the entire plug and let the corals grow over them. this will not likely happen with frogspawn...

Give a run down of the parameters and the inhabitants in the tank - that will be a place to start for someone to perhaps pinpoint your problem. Also type of lighting and how long these corals have been in the system. If you could post some pics that would help too.

You could order a time clock that has DPST switching with one normally open and one normally closed switch - wire that to an outlet into which you plug the lights (or you can hardwire into a box). These time clocks are made by Intermatic, Tork and several mfg's. By having the opposing switching...

Originally Posted by TopFins-MJ It's good to feed your brains some meaty food once or twice a week. Just put the piece on top of it, and watch it react. it's actually pretty cool to watch if you have 20 minutes to spare. You start to see the brain wrinkle, then swell, then engulf the peice of...

As an addendum to the last - some corals with long tentacles will more likely not be safe with the pep's - I did have problems with them nipping tentacles pff of the yellow star zoas but they did not bother the palys or other zoas in the tank - I think the yellows just looked like aptasia to them.

Yes - the pep's are reef safe with rare exceptions. I bought mine from SWF some time ago and even though they were small they just kept picking away at the one big aptasia I had and finally wiped it out - they first took out it's feeder tentacles and it began to starve and shrink. The small apts...

Originally Posted by Hefner413 yeah, whenever I turn off my koralias, and then turn them back on - they sometimes click/clack initially. I wouldn't put them on a wave/timer - best for continuous use. PH's with the design of Koralias have a turbulent flow output and therefore virtually...

Originally Posted by brandon7491 this is what i think u should consider for a 75gallon tank with 150lbs of lr and 60lbs of ls u should have ur biological filtration pretty down pat. though it can be done succesfully without one i do suggest u get a skimmer asm,euroreef,deltec h&s,bubble...

The copperband butterfly eats them - I personally used peppermint shrimp with great success. The peppermints will continue to be scavengers and become part of your clean up crew when all the aptasia is gone.

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To some of the rest of you posting.... I'm a little disappointed with you - no matter how many bs threads there have been the information given in responses should be real as many others will read these same threads. but you start dismissing one here and there because they sound like another...

Hey Mudbone You've got the basics there but you really need to slow down and take head of a couple of things already mentioned. The yellow tang is not suitable for that size tank - it is recomended for a minimum 125ga tank - it will outgrow that tank pretty quickly. I second the comments re...