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I used 5000L per hour for a 400 L tank so that's around 12x flow. I used two Powerheads. This is fine for soft corals and fish in my experience, also enough to keep waste from settling Based on the last 6 months experience 3 would have been better for more varied flow

If I had to do it again I'd do it the same way I did it (curing dead rock with macroalgae refugium) but I would stop worrying about everything all the time and learn to Be patient and just wait

Haha he's banned from the tank during that time; he can only look at it And yeah may do lol

Oh sorry dad just told me as I hit post, he was playing around trying to figure out how my timers worked and they broke and the reef lights were on all night and till now been on for 28 hours...that explains it... Haha sorry about the post everyone.

Any ideas? Just randomly happened to me and I don dont know why. I'm still feeding half a cube a day this hasn't changed for 1 week, used to be 1/4 but surely my current amount for 6 fish and a shrimp is still sensible. water parameters are 0 nitrates 0 phosphates, nothing does just did a...

Thanks both of you! Yeah I really should get gloves because my foxface always nuzzles my hand and I'm gonna get stung one day. Ahhh maybe my fairy wrasse or coral banded shrimp does something about them. Over the past 2 months I've found and removed 2 vertemid snails total, never seen others

Ah yes good point I need to buy proper gloves, any reccomendations? And 2 quills do you remove them? Or leave them?

Thanks 2quills, I'm gonna remove it. Funny how it set up on the sandbed isn't it? Or is that normal?

Oh and the bottles apparently they take a week or two to work and the larvae you introduce can be eaten up by fish. So I think the best way to succeed with those is adding to the sand or rocks in the sump. I think if you wait long enough and add corals you'll eventually get them too

I got my pod growth from the chaeto, after I added it in I noticed a few pods. However it wasn't till I added in some coral that I got a few other pods adding to the biodiversity and then I got a significantly large population which my sand shifter goby and wrasse chew on. It did take a few...

Isolated in a cup in my sump for the time being. Also I scanned the tank I don't see an anymore of those. I do have 2 feather dusters in my rocks but this doesn't have a crown

Just found this at the back of my tank on the sand what is it? Looks like a tied up bunch of shells with a long protruding tube, with some fluffy stuff out the top. Weirdest part Ian that it's moving, not walking around or anything but periodically shakes or leans over then rights itself (not flow)

Vibrio species are only really harmful if you're in bad health or have no medical care in the first place hence in developed countries :) And yeah I started wearing diving gloves because the foxface had some impressively sized spines on it which I hear have a neurotoxin in them and I don't want...

Hey! I think calcium is a little high but I think shouldn't kill corals at that level. What are ammonia nitrite and nitrate? Any pests visible on zoas? And lastly where are the two positioned? Light cycle and flow?

Hey 2quills Which vibrio species are we talking about here? The most common one we encounter in medicine from room can contaminated food is vibrio cholera. Causes a bad diarrhoea which is fatal usually in developing countries for young kids

Hey guys I got my gold head sleeper goby eating frozen food. I thought I'd post my strategy here in case anyone finds it mildly useful. The issue I had was not only did my goby not recognize food in the water column as food, they also hid during feeding time so the food would be gone before...

It absorbs phosphate from the water

Ok now I'm just using a CFL bulb and the zoa is opening. Can't see anymore nudis or eggs after I removed that nudi. What lights are good for a QT? I assume some corals need better than cfl

Awesome thanks! I'm using a budget heater so I'll try get a better one. Ammonia seems stable so far, I left a canister filter in the refugium for 4 weeks before hand. I hear An inexperienced person is More likely to kill the fish in QT which would otherwise survive if it had been added to the...

Funny story... After Beth warning me about QTs, I decided to set one up and practise with a coral frag to see if I can keep parameters in the QT stable. Having a bit of trouble in a small tank the temperature fluxes too much. So it's set up, I bought a zoanthid colony and...after 5 days I was...