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What is your Salinity and water temperature? Why do you want the Calcium so high?

Hard to tell with most of them retracted. I see a couple Zoanthids, perhaps a Xenia, possibly a Hammer.

Quite safe.

I disagree with Elegance as a beginner coral. Mushrooms for sure. Even Ricordea Yuma. Candycane isn't too bad either.

Actually it's a sessile Sea Cucumber. If you watch it you will see it rhythmically pull each of it's 10 arms one by one into it's mouth to eat anything it traps. Mostly detritus.

:p

It's not Aiptasia

Yep I assume after a day or so it contracts into a small ball and then opens up fully.

Several options at AirWaterIce also include a small RO storage tank and faucet for drinking water.

Very Nice! Is that a local native?

It looks like an infected wound to me. The antibiotics should be the answer. Did the instructions just say one 60 second dip? I would have thought twice a day for a week or so.

Can you describe the plumbing around the pump in detail? First thing to try is to turn off the pump then pour tank water backwards down the return to try to remove any trapped air pockets.

The type of Asterina, as far as I can see in the picture, isn't normally one that eats corals. I would watch it though to ensure it does not damage any coral. The Flatworm is a coin toss. The danger with that type of Flatworm is that they could be photosynthetic. If that is the case they...

The ridiculous prices are there to make up for the vast number of people that skip out on the hospital bill.

Yep

#1 - Asterina Starfish #2 - Flatworm

I'll guess you mean a Sand Sifting Goby like a Diamond - If it is a healthy established bed then the Goby would begin to eat all of the animals that made the sand bed healthy and it would end up with a pretty surface but nothing good below about 1/2". If it was an unhealthy bed then there...

He mentioned sand shifters, not sand sifters. Sand shifters like Bristle Worms, Cerith Snails, pods, etc, do not eat sand bed infauna. I agree with you that the shifters help prevent pockets of dead areas in the sand bed. Sand sifters, on the other hand, are the major cause of dead areas.

Depending on the quality of your live rocks (amount and diversity of life inside them) it can take up to a year to get rid of all the built up nutrients after killing everything in the rock. In the worst cases it becomes impossible to control the hair algae growing on the rocks because the fuel...

You should add one of these pictures to the picture contest! :cool: