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2quills my old and trusted friend you give good advice to us all TRUST THE EYES TEST

Guilty as charged

IMO most LFS that do not have interconnecting tanks with inverts run copper. I would wait for signs of parasites before medicating

Yes my friend eating is always a good sign. But worms are a concern with the twitching. I will closely monitor his weight

This is my blue throat trigger I purchased from SWF. It is a male as you can see. Very shy and as of today 5 days after I received him he is twitching. Today he started to eat vigorously. Time will tell I would hate to lose him.

as a rule of thumb I acclimate any shrimp i am adding to my tank for 2 to 3 hrs. IMO they are very sensitive to temp changes. i make sure my acclimation container temp stays constant with my DT. you can acclimate for a certain length of time but may in fact be acclimation the shrimp to the...

Make sure your buckets have wheels

What Bang is getting at is simply shrimp MUST be acclimated long and slow if you want them to survive

So true Bang thats not a good picture that coral actually has 15 heads. that's a nice return of an initial investment for those that want to frag

For those hobbyists yearning for elegance coral for their tank may I suggest a much easier coral to keep? That in multiple heads resembles elegance. The Duncan coral may be for you

Very nice did you shoot that video with just your moon lights on

I agree what do your consider a dramatic drop. in a reef it should be less then 1 PPM NO3-N ideally BUT it needs not be kept that low. in fact 40 PPM nitrogen can encourage growth in corals.Where very high nitrates effect a tank is when you maintain corals. high nitrates deplete calcium and...

Just a pet peeve of mine, you NEVER want your cycling of orgainc brakedown to end

All of my suggestions are IMO. A deep sand bed is not needed in your sump for denitrification as long as you have sufficient porous rocks in your tank. As far as a refugium remember its original purpose was a place of refuge. A place to grow copepods, macro algae EST. As for the bio balls and...

Will do Beth, as far as SWF moving to California the only way I became aware was in conversation with a representative on the phone. i asked him how was the rain on his side of our state. he replied oh we are no longer located in Fl we are now in California

Just out of curiosity as far as tap water was your concern that there may be copper in your water and it will be absorbed by the silicone and leach back into your tank at sometime ?

Aside from slow and steady factor in fish size and how territorial they are so you will know in what order to added them

Just my .02 do some research on denitrification. But in a nut shell. There are two basic ways we lower nitrates in our tanks. One is Denitrification. In this method nitrate is used as a biochemical by anaerobic bacteria. The second is assimilatory nitrate reducing. This is when the nitrates are...

True I miss Meowza

My friend your guess is as good as mine to what that is. considering i made this perchese in good fath with saltwaterfish and I made it a point to say i was a member of this forum I would think they would make sure i was happy. Not so. I am sure they Monitor this site I am interested in their...