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Your tank is starting to come along. I didnt notice if you have a new light yet? Get some good lighting and your calcium level up and you will have coraline growth everywhere. Was really glad to see the new sump,first thing lose the blue bio-balls and replace them with liverock/rubble. I would...

A sump gives you the option of adding liverock(wich will filter far more than any cannister)along with a spot to run carbon,put your heater,dose chemicals,do water changes,place a skimmer,setup a refugium...should I go on?..acclimate new arrivals,place unwanted critters until you can get them to...

If you plan to use a chiller I would suggest running 2 new breakers. You might regret using one when that chiller kicks on and throws your breaker and be kicking yourself for not doing 2,and this is saltwater so you will naturally want to upgrade in the(nearer than you think) future.

You can keep many different species of gobys together but only one blenny or they will fight like cats and dogs.

Its not the aggression that is the concern with the coral beauty. Many of them have been known to nip at your corals,thought it may be awhile before it starts or it may never. I would skip the puffer which will more than likely enjoy your cleanup crew for dinner. The longnose hawk I would skip...

As general rule anything that spawns in the reef tank that is not immediately removed is just more food.

Three is a crowd,it will never last. Take the odd man back and give the other 2 a chance to form a serious long-lasting relationship.

The red stuff got on some of my palys as well but they were pretty much unaffected. This stuff would not brush off easily,not even with a toothbrush and doesnt have the bubbles like cyano. In addition I had very little cyano in my system either,just a bit in a new frag tank I tied in but none in...

Im cheering for the hammer but I always root for the underdog.

Its really not a good idea to change all of your bulbs at once,depending on how old they are it will a lot of times cause and algae bloom. Even with MH when people change their bulbs they will either raise and slowly lower them or cut down on the run time and bring it back up gradually. With t5s...

Seio controllers never turn the koralia pump completely off. instead they are slowed down and speeded back up in random fashion,this is the same method that is used with tunze controllers. Koralias wont work well at all on a wave strip that turns them off completely. The Maxis are supposed to...

When you have the rocks out use a toothbrush on them after you pull the stuff off and rinse well with tank water.

Aquatinics makes a wonderful 48" t-5 fixture with 5 bulbs with ind reflectors,or tek lights. I had maxis on a wavemaker and invariably one of them would start to rattle. Save yourself the grief and $ and go with some koralias and a seio controller,you wont regret it.

Stick a small clay pot behind the anemone,they will almost always go in the pot,give them a few weeks.

He looks like trouble to me and may present quite an obstacle when you add more fish. A flamehawk may be able to hold his own but they have an appetite for cleaner shrimp. I think I would make a trap and find him a new address.

Your sick polyps do look like they are getting some red of them. I lost a bunch of zoas this summer,it started on one or two polyps on a few colonies,within a few weeks I had lost hundreds of polyps on all my zoas,pretty much wiped them all out. It looks like cyano but will not suck off at...

Nassarius snails live down in the sand and will come up when you feed,they do a decent job of stirring the sand up.also more hermits wont hurt. I find the scarlets work the sand a lot more than the blue legs but they grow quite large. A pistol shrimp with a couple of shrimp gobys do a good job...

I would get some empty water bottles,put heated water in them and float them in your sump or tank if you dont have a sump. change as needed and watch your temp closely. You want it to come up slowly,as if you were acclimating a new arrival. If you freeze the bottles they work as a chiller in the...

Fine gauge syringe works like a charm.

You do have a nirate issue to deal within a tank that size with so few fish you should have zero nitrates,most likely it is from overfeeding,tap water or detritus building up in dead spots on your rock,down in your sump all of the above. Your tank can support a lot more fish maybe 3x the number...