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That's OK, Scotts, I'm not offended. I can't get live sand because I can't find anyone willing to ship to Newfoundland. If I could have, I definitely would have went with live sand from the beginning. I just ordered a RO/DI unit as well so soon water quality won't be a problem. I also want...

I want to setup a refugium for a 55 gallon, undrilled all glass tank. I need this to be as simple a setup as possible because I'm new at this and apparently all thumbs. I also need it to be idiot-proof (i.e. in case of power outtage during vacation the whole thing doesn't go to hell). Can...

Just wanted to thank everyone who posted replies to my questions. I guess I'll have to ask the rest of them at another time or in another forum other than "New Hobbyists"..

**bump** Sorry, I've got lots of questions!

how regularly do I need to vacuum it? Also, I've only done that once and it seems to be harder than it sounds. I was only able to vacuum a very small amount of the substrate before I had a 3 gallon bucket full of my tank water! I had to stop there because that was all the replacement water I...

yes, crushed coral substrate and tap water, unfortunately. I can't get into live sand because I'm unable to find a local supplier or one that will ship to Newfoundland. If I could have found one, that's how I would have went.

Water parameters are: Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 20-40 pH 8.0 Temp 78 Specific Gravity 1.025 Calcum 450 I haven't been able to get the nitrate down for some reason. I feed the fish small amounts twice a day and the cleanup crew does a bang-up job of cleaning up the extra. I guess adding the...

Nas19320: So it's OK to keep LPS and soft corals together? If so, then I will go that route since most of the SPS corals are too challenging for me to keep anyway. After some of my recent exploits I don't trust myself to keep difficult organisms. I'm sure some of you don't trust me to keep...

Big thanks to everyone who replied so far and all your help. Man, I didn't think everyone would be so supportive and helpful, especially after all the major f**k-ups I've done. I'll catalog them for you: 1. added 50 lbs of new live rock in an already established system. Was under the...

Good, I'm going with a mogul style retrofit kit so that when I make my hood I'll easily be able to accomodate it. Thanks for your help with that. Not all the information you get on lighting (or anything else in this hobby) is very, uh, "informative".

Robfl: thanks for your replies. An invert only tank, eh? I love all my shrimp but it's like they're not even there! I never see them except for like 10 minutes before I go to bed! Even my bloody red blood shrimp (which is supposed to be a cleaner!) hides out all day long and I never get to...

Oh and I should mention my current livestock: 3 yellowtail damsels (buggers!!!) 2 large hermit crabs (ditto) 10 small hermits (?blue legs?) 30 turbo snails 1 cowrie snail 3 peppermint shrimp 1 blood shrimp 1 coral banded shrimp 2 large feahter dusters 1 zoanthid colony on live rock 1 bubble...

you're telling me! Man, in this picture it looks like he is creeping up on that red starfish and shortly after this pic was taken, he was trying to put it in his mouth!!! He tried pinching off all the legs - you could almost see the physical strain on his little claw while trying to do so -...

Here's the pic of that mean crab I mentioned:

I'm new to the board and to the hobby in general and have had a hell of a time with this so far. I have a 55 gallon tank as you'll see in the pic below. This pic was taken shortly before a major disaster wherein both my anenomes died within 24 hours (one just died, one sucked into the...