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no they shouldn't instictively stay away, the anemone is designed to eat fish and other things, if its appearance would keep fish away then its appearance would change to be more suitable for capturing prey.

the hob filter on the tank is temporary i'm just using it to grab particles for now and circulate water until I get the sump inline.

OK washed and prepped the sand for the fuge, I know my sump style is a little unconventional, still. I hate baffles they limit what you can do with your sump far too much in my experience. 2 3 inch deep tupperware containers are my sand holding areas. I will probably add a wall of plastic mesh...

ok starting to fill the sump today! i'll get better pictures.

I love it when tanks start off looking like the bastard child of a horse and a frog. wait for it.

front view (sump not hooked up, back of tank not painted, just fitting stuff) side view 30g hob overflow, into 20 long. dumping at the intake for the skimmer. still have to work out the fuge in the sump.

OK I've given up hope on getting my old account back, so I'm just going to run with this one. The build, equipment and intent: 30g tank, 250w DE metal halide w/14k Pheonix bulb, 20 long sump, 125 coralife super skimmer and fuge. The intent is for this to be an 80% SPS 20% LPS tank, roughly...

Gotta say over the last 20 years I've had a lot of close calls with electricity. like the time a heater broke in a salt mixing bucket when I started the siphon the old fashioned way as soon as the water hit my tongue straight 120 hit me in the mouth and laid me straight out. I've had multiple...

I did. lol. no it was wired correctly, unfortunately (after inspection of the breakers them selves) 7 years of humidity in the basement which they are installed (floods often, its a field stone foundation) had cause minor corrosion inside the gfci breakers, not enough to fault it but enough to...

And that is the generally accepted way to use the term, it makes it easier for people to understand the needs of the very specialized feeders of some, like sponges and tunicates, or obligatory feeders like gorgonians (as in they are obliged to feed because a lot of them cannot photosynthesize...

I remember when I ran nothing but VHOs on my tanks till the bulbs became nearly impossible to find locally. I sitll have 2 icecap 660-009 ballasts out in the back room

they are listing the best option lighting for it, and definitely recommending a more light suitable is appropriate, but its not that you can't grow them under different spectrums, say you use 550nm bulb almost pure yellow you would need a lot more wattage to equal the amount of par in other ends...

he's sort of splitting hairs (probably to clarify or make it easier for the person he's responding to to understand), frogspawn feed by holding the tentacles in the current and trapping particles and microfauna by shooting it with nematocyst, filtering the water that flows through its tentacles...

I'm going to see what I can arrange between work and the budget unfortunately fall is the early busy season for classes so I may not be able to take time off from teaching classes.

6500w of light? I'm sure you mean 65k. and the macros will grow in any range of light that contains PAR if you have enough of it (photosyntheticly active radiation which ranges from 400-700 nm (which would actually be almost all visible light ranges par varies by kelvin. you can grow macro...

yeah mandy thats a very nice set up and honestly insurance companies are great at risk reduction so if they green light it theres a good chance thats its a great way to do it. I'll be re-designing that set up that I have to include splash sheilding as well as new gfci breakers.

all good

Are they still available? I may be interested if I can figure out the logistics.

I like the low fish to coral ratio honestly, fewer fish means easier bio-load maintenance related tasks, like nitrate monitoring etc.

All three outlets in the picture above are on their own breaker. I'm still confused as to why the center appears to have tripped fast while the outer two definitely delayed.