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Originally Posted by Flower ...Why not try marine paint. Three colors..red, yellow and blue will make every color...black will make it darker, and white will make it lighter. let one color dry before doing another or you may cause a muddy look. This reply made me re read the OP 3 times to...

Thank you for the replies - though I would disagree on there being a mini cycle if I break the tank down each time. A cycle is a period of establishing a biological bacteria foundation to handle a bio load. If I used a sponge media from my existing sump area - it would have an established...

Thanks for the replies. A couple more - 1) This is something that I could set up only when making a new purchase for the fish tank, right? Basically buy a 10g tank and use some existing DT water with a sponge that's been in the sump for biological filtratino in a power filter. Once QT is...

Teach me about QT's. Pretend I'm completely dumb about them. 1) Do you use them to introduce a fish or coral or invert to your tank? 2) What do you put in them - PVC fittings? 3) How long do you QT a fish, coral, invert before adding it to you tank? 4) Do you run a filter on your QT? How...

I love corner tanks! I have a 54g corner with 2 - K3's & 300gph return. Also have about 150gph coming from the refugium. Equals about 40x flow.

If it had been me personally, I would have put a 4 or 5 bulb fixture over that tank. BUT... since you got the 6 bulb fixture, why not change out a 10k bulb and put a 14k bulb in its' place? You mentioned running 3 actinics??? How about 2 actinics & 1 Blue+. These two might help off set some...

Originally Posted by GeoJ Not reef safe will eat green star polyps. I have had two emerald crabs mow through green star polyps. Pulled the crabs and the GSP recovered. Uh, keep the crabs and pull the GSP. You'll have far more headaches from the GSP than the Emeralds, for sure.

Are you asking about the white tip on his claws? I believe this is what their claw looks like... and is not something they are eating. He's probably picking some coraline off the rock. I doubt he's doing any harm... they seem to be rather easy going.

Agree... you shouldn't need to buy any pods. They just seem to appear out of thin air.

I'm not about to say this is or is not a reason. BUT, either put a DSB in your refugium or no sand at all (maybe some rubble). A shallow sand bed in your refugium really does nothing at all but collect detritus and no means to break it down. What is your livestock?

The above posts are good advice. But to get to your question... Try something like this: 10 cerith snails 10 nassarious snails 10 turbo/astrea snails 10 hermits (any variety... scarlets, blue legs, etc) You can always look into things like shrimp, brittle stars, conch's & emeralds too. I would...

And a sump???? If you have a sump, just drop a bag of carbon in there where there is some flow. Sounds like you're good to go!

Originally Posted by sepulatian I am not going to rise to your antagonizing. Do as you will with your tank. Hey listen man, nothing against you. I can just tell you are the typical reefer who believes there are rules of reefing & you can't step out of bounds. Who says you HAVE to mix salt...

Originally Posted by sepulatian No, but your oxygen level will. You're right! If I didn't have fresh RO water & a PH churning it for that 14 or so hours prior to me adding it to my tank repeatedly. But you may very well be right... it was the final 8-10 hours that I missed from time to time...

I'm not going to argue about this. Who mentioned anything of a "full fledged clean up crew"? Doubling the very small amount of CUC he had listed isn't anywhere near a "full fledged clean up crew." I mean, 2 nassarious snails??? So he gets 4!! Whoopty Dooo!! LMAO. Funny man! Real funny!

Every turbo & hermit I ever owned removed diatoms from my tank after it cycled. But hey, I probably got lucky and was shipped the only ones on earth that do it.

I don't know if it should... but notice I did say "at least 12 hours." I've added fresh saltwater to my tank before after a little over 12 hours. Rome didn't fall because of it.

I'll second the Canister = not good for reef tanks. Canister filters trap detritus inside causing high nitrates. They are a pain in the ***. For a saltwater reef tank all you need is Live Rock, a good skimmer & if you can do it, a refugium. But LR & a skimmer first.

If he just cycled he should have plenty of diatoms to feed off of. Plus, now's the time to add his first fish as well. 12 snails is very few snails for a 75g tank to begin with. Hermits always kill snails if they're big enough... big deal. It's a way of life. And 2 Nassarious snails for a...

Yep. I use TM Pro also... I always start with 1/2 cup per gallon, but usually end up adding another 1/2 cup for 5 total gallons in the end. Check it after you add 1/2 cup & then go from there. I usually check it after a couple of hours. Then add some more and let it mix overnight at least 12...