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About a week ago I purchased an Odyssea 17" light fixture for my 12G Aquapod. It has one 150W MH and two 14W actinics fed by an electronic ballast. Odyssea lights have gotten a lot of bad press on the net, but so far, I can't see why. The light is fairly well built and came very well packaged...

I added 5 Astrea snails and 1 Turbo snail. I'd like to add a few fish (2-3 MAX) in the next week or so ,so I'm considering some hermit crabs as well.

Thanks again for all the responses. I did a 25% water change using "Real Ocean Water" and added a small bag of Purigen to one of the compartments in the rear of the tank. I've also added 6 snails as suggested. They've moved around quite a bit and have already made a small but noticeable dent in...

CUC = Clean Up Crew? If so, there is none. A friend suggested some snails or shrimp but was a little vague as to how many. My only experience with snails was with a freshwater setup years ago and the snails seemed to multiply faster than rabbits. I don't want to overcrowd the tank as I'd like to...

Thanks for the replies. I agree on the 12G being tough to keep up. I had several salt water tanks about 20 years ago, the smallest being 55G. All were set up using Instant Ocean. The larger tanks were a bit more forgiving of mistakes. These were also fish only type tanks and weren't as demanding...

A friend recently gave me a fully established 12 gallon Nano. It has about 20 or so pounds of live rock sitting on a 2" bed of crushed coral. The tank is light by the standard dual daylight and dual actinic which are lit for about 10 hours per day. There are 6 Candy Cane corals in the tank, a...