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What a beautiful Story Jcrim, congrats to you and your wife, it is nice to hear a mans side of a labor and birth story. Have a wonderful Christmas with your new daughter...

no, you need at least two powerheads, Emperors only move water on the surface of the tank. you need circulation deep in the tank. For your size tank I would go with 2 SEIO 820's or two Maxi jet 900's.

What type of fish. Many times if you know where the fish sleeps you can just net it out early in the morning, before it wakes up. Or you can try feeding the fish out of a net for a few days and then when it is not expecting it you can net it. Or you can buy a trap online, I have had really...

Personally I like a modified Berlin. I agree with a lot of LR, a very shallow sandbed, and a overrated skimmer (get a good one, like a ASM). But I do like the use of Carbon, and refugiums. Lots of water changes.

I am convinced that the best way to iradicate bryopsis and hair algae from your tank is to shut the lights off for two weeks (if you have corals this is a problem, I moved my corals into a holding tank with lights for a while), then after the algae is dead, you remove the rock and scrub it down...

Hi and Welcome!! :jumping: :jumping: Sounds like you have done your homework, I will give you some of my opinions on your questions. 1. Most wet/dry's can be converted to refugiums, to give you specifics I would need a picture of your tank, but you will more than likely want to remove the...

That reminds me of my cat in college, he would sit in this drippy sink and let the water drip on his head..... strange cat.

Yep the storm just got finished with the Kansas City Area and dumped about a foot, which is almost unheard of around here, I hate to see what it is going to do to the east coast. I love it though, can't wait for it to warm up a bit so the kids and I can go sledding and build a snowman.

If you want the white look then a 10k is what you want, if you want a nice balanced white/blue then look at a 50/50 bulb.

yes have them on at the same time, some people turn the blue lights on a bit before and leave them on a little bit longer to simulate dawn/dusk but you don't have to.

Actually probably a Bubble king or a Deltec, they are about the best around, but $$$.

We pay about $150 a month on the average payment plan, 2500sq ft house, a couple 40gallon QT tanks, a 55gallon turtle tank. Our furnace is gas, only reason it is as high as it is, is because I cannot stand being hot and I run the AC ice cold in the summer.

the Heniochus I have had, were Voracious eaters, it was like feeding frenzy when I put food or algae sheets in the tank. They would eat Anything and everything I put in the tank. The do love to be cleaned by cleaner shrimp.....

Are you sure you don't have a air leak in your plumbing somewhere? I would check that.

prenatal vitamins and being pregnant, lol. that is the only time I have had good strong shiny nails. Not sure if it was the vitamins and extra calcium, or the pregnancy.

I would use a larger grained sand, like reef grade, and do a really shallow sandbed.

Take the shrimp out... With nitrites at 3.0 you skipped the ammonia stage because you have good quality LR and LS with lots of good bacteria. Not a whole lot you can do right now but wait, you can do a couple small 10% water changes over a few days to see if the nitrites will drop a bit, but...

I basically had the same setup for a 58gallon tank, I used a 29gallon sump/fuge, tons of microbubbles with a mag 9.5, I turned the flow down, and no more bubbles.

These are the fish I think would be fine in a 55 gallon with a snowflake, not ALL of these fish, but maybe two out of the list. At some point you might be able to add a third but I would just put two in for a while and see how it works. yellow eyed kole tang Flame Hawkfish Toby puffer small angel

do you have a cleanup crew? If the tank is cycled then put in a cleanup crew and they will take care of that algae, I don't know the name of that algae but it is normal most tanks have it and the cleanup crew takes care of it.