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I'm in Hillsborough Co. - Temple Terrace area. I've got premium fiji from FAOIS that's been in my display for 1 1/2 years. No corals in the tank for the last 3 mo. Looks beautiful- lot's of red/purple coraline and nice shapes too. $2.00/lb and I have around 30lbs. I'll throw in some base...

Anemones are not the biggest fans of turbulence. So if anemones are your goal , it maybe overkill. If you want to keep corals, even softies, I wouldn't hesitate to put the 900 in. You can always point them at each other or the glass to kill the flow a bit.

Best thing you can do is acclimate them slowly. If thay were dead the bags they came in would be very milky brown and smell like death.

Thank you very much. It was a very bad day. The same morning my friend Laz's(Fidel Castro) 280 acrylic split open and flooded his garage. Same morning I swear. I was very careful about the transfer and used as much tank water from the 20. Again everything is begining to color back up and I will...

Mirulina(sp?). Good amount of light, lot's of indirect flow. Has stinger tentacles so no close neighbors.

Nice tanks everyone! Shortly after posting the pics of the 20gxh, the stand it was on gave out in the middle of the night. I woke up to water pouring on my floor. It sucked. I had to move everything to my 28g marineland bowfront. That was almost a month ago and I'm posting some pics of it as it...

Every Niger I've ever seen in a reef has been a model citizen. They cannot eat your corals or other sationary inverts as their mouths point upwards. They would have to turn almost upside down in order to do this. They eat from the water column.

True, emeralds and sally's are a bad choice for a reef. Emeralds are 50/50 with this and sally's are 100% bad when they get big. Strawberry crabs are related to emerald's and have less of a chance of munching later. So yeah, filter feeders for reefs. Masked acro crabs are fine too.

Have you checked around the mantle for snails. These are very small, around an eighth inch and can kill a clam slowly. Also, teddy bear crabs are notorious for this and can hide quite well. Although they usually kill the clam overnight or within a few days. Of course if you have a dwarf angel or...

As stated, be carefull as to the species you get. Also, if you don't feed your tank enough the hermits will look for food. Also it's always a good idea to keep empty snail and hermit shells in the tank. some hermits are just psychotic.

Shrimps and crabs are very sensitive to specific gravity(salt level) changes. In a small tank, if you allow evap to go without topping off with fresh R/O for more than 1-2 days and then top off with say 1 1/2-2 gallons of fresh, the change is too great and osmotic shock kills them. Top off daily...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....lobster.

Up the number of turbos, astrea's, or margarita snails and keep the lights to a minimum. I'd say around 6 hours per day, increasing an hour every 2 days. The snails help a lot with this.

It should be fine where it is. I'd move it up to around 8-10" from the top of the tank. You'll get a little more evap cooling and the light will be more evenly distributed throughout the aquarium. The plexi glass hood will need to be kept clean so light doesn't get stolen by it.

Yeah not as delicate as most think. I'm lucky enough to have a tang that loves the stuff.

Unfortunately the best and safest way would be to utilize some sand sifting critters. My favorite being the sand -sifting gobies. They are the most efficient for the money. Of course you also have sand-sifting stars and snails. But you usually have to buy a lot of these to do the job. Keep in...

Sounds like the air tube(diffuser) is clogged. With these skimmers you need to completely take it apart and clean it every 3-6mo. or whenever efficiency drops. My Prism also did this and I found that there was a few tube worms forming in the air tube. I replaced the air tube and boom, working...

As a matter of fact, yes you are lucky. This is a type of coral that will not even open it's feeding tentacles to eat if the flow rate and direction are not matched in the system. You just happened to put him in a spot where you coincidentally matched both. I've heard of aquacultured peices...

I've seen them collide before. Generally the zoo's will win unless they tolerate each other which I've seen in most setups. Here are some blue tubs and a superman monti loving each other.

Heliopora NON PHOTOSYNTHETIC SPS! Aw yeah.