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Option 720, I just discovered Depp sea gallery myself and really like the store. They keep talking about a frag trade coming up so hopefully I can pick up some coral reasonably cheap. Would have been happy to give you some calurpa as even though my fuge is small I have to trim it about every two...

I've had one for a while now and have only one complaint. Since it is made of clear plex the light shines though it into your main tank at night. Also it does not come with a light so you will need to DIY one. overall it works as intended growing calupera and is now full of pods. There is a...

theres more to it than inches per gal, and how much filtering you have. The biggest problem is that most of these fish are very territorial. Even the non aggressive fish need a place to call home. You may end up with a major case of ich due to too much stress from overcrowed fish (even in a...

I purchased a crocea from them eight months ago and it has done very well. In addition my cleanup crew came from there as well as a few corals. Everything received was healthy. The only down side is the shipping cost. Once you factor in the shipping there really isn't much of a discount/savings.

How did the conversion from CC to DSB go? how did you end up doing it? I would recomend things like bristle worms, mini brittle stars, maybe some sand sifting snails (I forget which ones they are), and also some left hand hermits as all my other hermnits stick to cleaning the rocks but these...

I posted about something similar (I think) on my live rock several weeks ago. I had a rock with two "dead" hard corals on it. After several months in the tank I noticed the "dead" corals were covered with what looked like algea. But when I touch it or got close to it the "algea" retracts into...

What are the best ways of catching hitchhiker crabs? Are there effective traps on the market? Do these traps work even if you have other shrimp and emeralds in your tank. I have two in my reef one is tiny the other has grown to about 1/2 inch across. They both look like emeralds and have not...

no reason black would not work. I have the hang on CPR unit and there is definitely a light issue. Not just lighting the wall behind the tank but because the thing is made of plex light travels through it's edges right into the tank like two small penlights at the point where the plastic...

Two weeks ago I started using this live phytoplankton for my corals. I now am starting to see some brown diatom on my sand bed. All water tests are normal so I am wondering if using a live product is the cause of this. I am feeding one capful every three days in a 55 reef (8 months old) with...

Option720 I have a 2 1/2 in sand bed in one and a 3 1/2 in sand bed in another. I used a mix of dry sand and natures ocean live sand purchased locally (very expensive in the local LFS) I started out with cc as I fell pray to bad LFS advice. I switched to sand beds 3 months ago and two months ago...

Try putting some of the cc in a nylon or mesh bag and leave it sit on top of the DSB for a week. The life in the CC will move directly to the DSB. This way you only change the substrate once as apposed to doing half cc half sand and then going back and changing the remaining cc to sand.

First off skip the Mandarin as you are only giving this fish a slow painful death due to starvation and I am sure that is not your intent. This fish needs considerably more than 20lbs of live rock to hunt food from. As for the rest what kind of lighting will you have?

The unit comes with a rio pump which will be in your tank and it will pump water into the refugium and the syphon will take the water back to your tank. All you basically need to do is clean it, hang it on your tank and level it with the adjusting screws, install the sand bed, plug in the pump...

Several months ago I purchase two pieces of live rock at a local LFS to help top off my reef. On both of these rocks there were what looked like old dead coral growths. they were tan in color and hard. Now I am noticing what look like short polyps (on one growth they are green on the other they...

Option 720 I also live in L.O in the mountain park area. I bought the refugium on line for 118.00. pretty happy with it as it's pretty simple and easy and I'm not much of a handyman and plumbing is still a leaky wet mystery to me. I usually go to Upscales locally or Waves but the pricing at...

Your Bioload is pretty low so you could probably go with just the Skimmer and drop the filter. The only problem with the Hang on Refugium is they are small. I have their large one on my 55 and am completely happy with it but my tank is large enough for a skimmer and a hang on biowheel filter in...

I'm not much of a handy man and did not have any room for a sump or anything else below my 50gal reef so I did purchase the hang on unit from CPR. They are small and expensive but work very well. There is a powerhead which pulls water into the refugium and a syphon which carries it back to the...