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running carbon wont hurt your inverts but copper will kill them along with the bacteria in your rock!!

yea its a bummer. he was nice and fat!!!! i guess thats just the way it goes. swimming one second and then do the back stroke the next!!!!!!!!!!

He arrived DOA. I have the bag flloating in the tank and hes not moving at all and his gills are also motionless. He will be the last to acclimate but Iam pretty sure hes a goner!!!

I order a tone of critters and a few corals and everything looks awsome. The only one that appears to be a goner is the lawnmower blenny. Too bad he was a fat one. Iam not worried though, SWF.COM always makes good and stands by their critters.

I got the same build up when I first started my tank, but after my tank parameters evened out it reduce the amout of algae build up by 70%. I took my prefilter out. I didnt want it being a nitrate trap. I dont see the use for the filter.

Ive tried them a couple of times and they always never made it past a couple of months. I usually keep 1 turbo 20 scarlets crabs, 20 astrea and 20 nass. snails for my clean up crew in my 40gallon. I just recently ordered 3 emerald crabs for a bubble algae out break Iam going through. My tank...

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its more if the temp has change quickly. i have had my tank hit 86 and everything survived but they didnt look good.

no 8.0 is fine. my tankhas been running for a couple of years and my ph is always 8.0-8.2.

i would go ahead and order your clean up crew!!

i would make part of the sump a refugium.

could be! i always have had good luck with the scarlet hermit crabs. they never fight or go after my snails. they are pretty peaceful. ive heard the blue legs and red legs are aggressive torwards each other and snails. ive never had them thats just what ive heard here on the board!!

sounds like they have died. it could be from another hermit killing them for their shells also.

more agressive fish i would add last.

i would stick with getting a clean up crew first. they will have plenty to eat real soon!!! i always keep my clean up crew heavly stocked in my 40 and it stays algae free except for the bubble algae break which will be taken care of with a couple of emeralds!!!

if your tank has fully cycled then its ready for a clean up crew. once you have the cheato in you will see your nitrates drop quickly. mine did in like 2 to 4 weeks it was great.

i have a sump/refugium. adding the refugium has made my tanks water quality much better. if you decide to do a sump i would add an area for a refugium. my refugium area is maybe 8-10 gallons of a 30 gallon sump.

what a great arrangement of color as always!!!

i would start with a clean up crew first then in a week start to add one fish at a time every other week and in about 6 months start with adding coral. just my opinion!!!

looks like you did a great job!!!!!