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i have seen thousands upon thousands of soft corals and yours look close to the healthiest i have seen.......good job Brad

crocea seems a little more finicky.......but not much more...i didn't look at your tank size.....really any clam would be fine for you Brad

every one ecept crocea.........try a squamosa first......get one about 4-6"......if smaller you will have to feed every few days Brad

buying them will just encourage them to collect.......what makes you think your theory is correct......what qualifies to find out reason for this when many great biolgist are still not sure.......i say leave it in nature where it belongs.. Brad

for sps waaaaaaaaaaaay to many fish.......chevron and clown will fight....switch one of the those with a pruple or yellow tang (dif. body shape)..........also try to cut the cardnals to just one Brad

from what temp did it go to 84 from....were the other perameters fine............i hae had this happen several times sense i just moved my tank (i had a spike that was from 75-85) and my corals were fine......just stressed....not bleaching in acros and everything is better than before now...

it depends what corals are you planning??? Brad

hey serg i think dan is getting 36 acros on tuesday and he is suppose to get 25 this week (he gets it direct so sometimes the ppl don't ship on right days so its hard to telll if he will have them).......but they are going to be pretty well priced and once we get them you can frag them and trade...

just leave them in for a week and a half to see if eating and any signs of illness........i personally don't use one cause i can control ick outbreacks within the main display within a few days the fish seem to adapt to my water and they recover within a day...(i have had one fish shipped to me...

what are you growing in your tank to have a meltdown at 84 ........and sps grow much faster at 80 and up...as well as clams.........i have kept my reefs at both and i am reaching insane growth rates on both clams and sps.....clams are growing between 1/2" and 1 1/2" inches a month and sps are...

ponopie (sp.) vietnam is were very many gorgeous clams come from (they are ill collected there so i don't reccomend buying every clam from there)......the water there is around 80-82 degrees.......also clams don't really use strotium and iodine.....most clam and sps guys including me don't even...

clams like a little nitrates (which i don't have in my current tank but in my last they seem to lower nitrates cause they use it).......so if you are afriad to keep a clam ina tank with trace amounts of nitrates don't worry they will be just fine.......also what are you talking about trace...

are you serious....80 is on a low side......i keep my sps tank at 80 in the winter and at around 83 in the summer.....i have gotten 1 cm of growth in 2 weeks on one of my clams in my new tank......also out of the 5 i have not one seems to like the lower temps.....the higher the temp. the higher...

i agree with kip and you should do some research on them.........they tend to like anenomes and feather duters and some sps....i have never heard of the clam thing though i haven't researched this fish very well.....i would stay away from them intill you have kept other fish that are harder than...

everything seems fine from your info you gave us...but if clams are closing then things aren't fine...test every perameter you can and then see if you notice anything odd (snails on them and stuff) if they are not attched try turning h=them over and checking the foot.......also at night check...

if your going sps i would take half of it out, 'cause i think they look much better with open spaces (but some ppl think my tank needs more rock)....i guess its all in the eye of the beholder.....what makes you happy is what is going to be the best thing in the long run Brad

i bought base rock for my tank from the florida "grave yards" and it just needs to be washed and then it works great......you can see pics of it in this forum...under my 180g setup Brad

yea those are hard to read....i am glad i have a pH meter and don't have to deal with one of those test kits... Brad

possibly but something that suttle doesn't usually reprsent ---...just dif color pattern......not an expert but i would just guess it to be a color morph (like in a clown goby) Brad

hmmm with a dkh of 7.5 and that calcium you should be alright with your pH??????????some ppl run theres that low....(well not quite that low but below 8.00) also do you run a calc reactor?????