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Have you tried nori? Most herbivores will eagerly take this, and it is easily obtained and stored.

Readings of 0 for all nitrogenous waste products are possible if the live rock were in perfect "living" condition, but what is "bio juice"? I think we need more details about how you cycled the tank, including timing when things were added. As for the lost fish, it happens! Depending on what...

Same as Iinforbis - I use Prime only in my QT in the event of an ammonia problem. There should be no need for it in a cycling or new tank. During the cycle you want ammonia to rise and then fall. If it rises again after adding livestock you should look to your husbandry practices or you will be...

I know, but I don't have a mandarin anymore. I've broken down my 40 reef, and am converting my 220 FOWLR to a reef. Then I'll do another mandarin and hopefully generate enough pods in the 110 gallon sump I'm planning.

And then the prawn roe supply disappeared - did you buy it all?

And yet, you stayed!

That's a pretty light bioload, and a lot of food. Try feeding 1/2 cube of frozen, and supplement with nori for the tang. My guess is that you are seeing a diatom bloom due to using tap water. I would urge you to either buy RODI, or a RODI system (cheaper in the long run), and use that to make...

Yeah, I've been here irregularly since I retired because I'm working twice as many hours in retirement, and filling the rest of my week with babysitting my grandchildren. I still enjoy this site even though it isn't so exciting anymore.

Don't worry about the nightlights, just cut down on the daylight phase. Depending on the size of the tank and the bioload a single cube might be too little, or much too much. What I'm saying is give us a little more information about your system and we can give you more precise advice. You also...

We have a scallop named "eeny" (that is, scallop eenie)

I'm always very careful about disturbing the substrate. A variety of toxins accumulate there, and you may have suspended some of them into the water. When I clean the substrate I do so at the same time as a water change, and actually vacuum the substrate so that none/little suspends into the...

Not only do they get big, but they can expand their mouth to engulf anything up to the diameter of their body.

There is lots of objective (no sales pitch or interest) advice available here, but we need to know more about your goals. Will the system be FOWLR, reef, advanced reef, etc? Even budget goals matter.

I tried nudibranchs - no luck. Then I added two peppermint shrimps, and my problem disappeared. I did use Aptasia-X on the larger anemones since the shrimp mainly eat small specimens. Once you get ahead of them, the shrimp will keep the aptasia problem under control.

Good plans! But a couple of suggestions for you to think about: Instead of a single 200w heater, consider two 100w units. That way, if one dies, you still have some heat, and if one fails in the ON position (not an uncommon occurrence) it won't be enough to cook the tank. You say cost is a...

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220 gal display with open top, and I need to replace 3 gallons every other day in the winter, less in the summer.

Clownfish are members of the damsel family, and should be among the last fish added to a system. There was probably plenty of aggression going on, even if you did not see it.

Moorish idol, and a tank large enough to support it.

Watch out - they get very large and have a poor record of long term survival in captivity in hobbyist tanks.