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MM... I believe that I have the same orange cap that you now have. I have found that it is certaintly light loving. If you get it in strong direct light it will turn extremely bright and become more pink. Here's mine.....again...love your pics.

Attml: I run (4) 400watt 20K radiums on pulse start ballasts plus (4) 400watt 10K ushios on pulse start ballasts plus (6) 165 watt actinic VHO on Ice Cap 430 ballasts. I am thinking of changing two of my 10K's to Iawasaki 6.5K's....I think my tank is slightly too blue.

If you're looking for a low light coral...how about a scolymia? I keep mine completely shaded from my halides. It only receives indirect low light.

Some of my favorite SPS.

Here's my little patch that's making a comeback after being grazed upon by that worm.

Trompet, Actually it is the end of one of the platforms (there are three total). The white part was covered with sand (clean of algae). The dark part was the top of the platform (with the eggcate removed). As you can see, the platform elevated the rocks only 4 inches off the bottom. This is to...

No, actually it went into the freezer. Fortunately, the cold did its job before "the better half " got home or Mr. worm would have had company.

If I were to guess a weight, I say between 3 - 4 pounds. There were lots of yellow, white, and bluish sponges but, nothing remarkable beyond that. I was kind of in a hurry to return the rock to the tank as I do not employ a DSB; but, rather use the rock for biological filtration.

Beth: Yes, I probably could have beheaded him; however, there would be no guarantees that it wouldn't regenerate or split. The other disadvantage would be an enormous animal decomposing in the tank if it did die. On a side note: as I posted, When trying to get him out of the pvc tubing (which...

All the rocks are elevated off the bottom. There are 8 water jets dedicated to blowing water under the rocks to keep any detritus from building up. The only difference is that this time there are no large openings in the PVC structure for unwelcome creatures to develop into monsters unobserved.

Skilos: The down side of this adventure was that I couldn't put the tank back the way it was. Taking everything out resulted in much coral damage. I had to trim back several corals and eliminate others that were just too big for the space. The greenish staghorn was one of those eliminated. In...

And, here's what it looks like after four days of reconstruction:

As stated, I had to remove everything to get the worm out, There was no way to replicate the reef after such drastic actions...but, I did the best that I could. Here is a pic of the tank before worm removal ...followed by one after worm removal.

Sorry for the posting over site..it won't happen again. Yes, the total length of this Pacific Eunicid worm was 7 1/2 feet. He was living in the pvc structure that elevated my live rock off the bottom. I had to remove all the corals and all the rock to remove the pvc structure to make sure that I...

The back side located in the garage:

The front side:

Scott, the only way to avoid the look that you descibe is to make the wall opening apart of your stand. The tank will sit into the wall cavity. You can then picture frame around the tank. The only disadvantage of this is that the front part of the tank gets shaded by the width of the framed wall...

Carpets are generally hard to keep for long periods. They require high light, strong to moderate current (to remove their waste), and frequent feedings (I feed mine every two to three days. They can, and will, eat fish, although mine has never eaten one in the two years that I've had him. They...

And my 2 yr old tank:

The scroll's polyps are usually always extended..but, even more so at night and whenever food hits the water. He's under a combination of 400 watt 10K's and 20K radiums with some actinic VHO. I never mustered the courage to frag him yet...he just looks too nice....but, he is getting big and...