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Hermits are pretty colorful and easy to sustain. You could have one or two of them and one or two snails. Youll get some small life if you get good peices of live rock too. As far as snails i would try a nassrius and a cerith. They stay small. You could also look for a bumblebee snail. Do...

Good point. Aquarium Pharmacuticals sells the first four i mentioned in a "Saltwater" kit for 20 dollars. About as cheap as it gets.

OH and one other thing. Be carfull with all the cleaning supplies near your sink. You definitely don't want any of that stuff going in your tank. Definitely be carefull with anything that sprays around there.

HHAHAHA. Wow.... That skimmer is likely to suck out any thing you put into it. So if you plan on doseing with things then i would turn off the skimmer occasionally or turn it down ALOT...

Don't nkow about the scallop. If you can get the horseshoe crab to live they are big and cumbersome in a tank that size. I would get rid of them. The emeralds are scavengers and algae eaters. They will eat meat IE your dead Blenny. Its possible your Blenny was weak and was caught by the...

Emeralds are at Fish Pros and Fish World. Both carry them regularly but Pros is 10.99 while World is usually 7.99 or lower....

My brother has a 46 bow with about 70lbs of rock in it i think.... My 12 has about 20lbs and my 20 about 25 but can have more....

Hmmm. Probalby not enough light. You can certainly try or just take the anemone back to the lfs.... How many watts? The anemone is capable of moving to wherever he wants so he may not stay at the top due to other factors such as water flow.

Hmmm. The filter should be enough. I'm not very familiar with the tank in general. You may want to get a Rio 50 power head and turn the flow down with the regulator that comes with it. Its the smallest i know about. But you are talking valuable realestate space. I would go with just the...

If you are doing fish only then you need ammonia, ph, nitrate, and nitrite. If you are doing a reef then add calcium and KH to that list. I like the aquarium pharmacuticals tests for the first four and KH and salifert is probably the most accurate calcium test kit you can get.

You can add rock. BUT you may prolong the cycle. It's best to get alot of initial rock and structure in the tank first. THEN add fish after all your parameters are settled down. Just keep in mind every piece of rock you add has the potential to throw off your water. I recommend the smell...

Do you have the lighting for an anemone? Most just don't last very long. They need quite a bit of light. You should be fine adding those things to your tank. Just don't add them all at once. Keep in mind diseases and such in addition to the load.

Ill put money on it that your tap water is the culprit. If you start using RO water with proper PH buffers for top off water and salt levels for water changes then you will slowly starve the algae and with your cleaners it should recede.

I was thinking that mech....I do know that inverts are even more suceptable to this. The only way to really lower salt levels is by water changes over time. I would try and get it down to about .025. I'm sure most lfs are that or lower....

Oh yeah. Of course. Are you gonna want some of my frags? I told you in your other post you can get emeralds around here pretty easy. Ill email you soon....

I know, I know.....

It should be. Try doing some polyps and mushrooms. A feather duster doesn't require light and can take up space in a 2.5. I'm experimenting now with my girlfriends tank. She has the same bulb and so far the mushroom i gave her is doing ok.

It gets a slime coat because it's sitting in the water too long rotting probably. I would check your water parameters. They are probably very off....

Well. Look at it this way. It has alot better chance of surviving in your tank than in a LFS.....

NEVER pour lfs water into your tank. LFS's use all kinds of chems in their tanks sometimes and you ahve no way of knowing what. Those chems are usually lethal to all of your inverts. So if none of your inverts died count yourself lucky :) I would definitely stop doing that.