Alright, I hope the best for you, we were all new at one point or another and received bad advise, you stumbled upon the right place and you should really learn a lot here. I'm leaving this to you for a while Kitten. (get it, meowzers son.)
Originally Posted by nissan577
sps-small polyp stony=acropora, montipora etc...
IMO-in my opinion
IMHO-in my honest opinion
t5-
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/vb/s...light=acronyms
Who beat who this time sucka.
I would trade the fish for some cured liverock with maybe a mushroom or zoas on it. especially if you upgrade your lighting. Just make sure you don't add uncured liverock to your tank.
Plan on 200 to 500 for a good light, t5 HO or metal hallide if you want to keep any hard corals in the future with a few acceptions. Aptasia x rid my tank of any aptasia I received on a few rocks. One treatment and they were gone. Power compact are ok, but what do you plan on having in the...
An anenome needs very good stable water conditions and very high light and even at that can be very difficult. It doesn't look like you have very strong light. Is it just a regular aquarium light? Standard t-8 bulb?
Although I am not an advocate of keeping large animals in cages, what makes me more angry is commercial fisherman raping the ocean at rates that the ocean cant recover from. People killing sharks and tearing their fins off and throwing them back in the ocean. And people using the ocean as a...
8 to 12, shorten if you start getting nussance algae. You can go as low as 6 to 12 for fish only, and should probably do 10 to 12 for reef, once you have coral.
Originally Posted by BTLDreef
You've been lucky. I used to say the same thing. Then the tidal wave hit.
Over the past 4-5 months I've encountered:
2 Pistol shrimp (one came with rock, one came in a large lobo colony)
1 Reef lobster (came in rock, QT'd the rock for 2 weeks and this sucker still...
You just have to keep the organic material cleaned out regularly, but they work good like I said for nitraban and phosban, chemical filtration, and water movement.