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They are just the standard reef kit peppermint kind. I haven't even looked at getting any of the others like the coral banded or pistols though I have had one of the peppermint think My finger was on the buffet table when I was feeding them some frozen food lol. Like the krill in the movie...

Damn, alright, thus far it sounds like ordering the Tisbe's in maybe a 3x order may be My best bet thus far. I know the damn cleaner shrimp were bred with hogs and as such are pigs now, I caught them attacking a zebra damsel 5 or 6 hours ago.... maybe it wasn't doing well but they certainly...

That's what I figured and why I started questioning the food source because I ran chems on the water and everything was good, ever so slighting up above zero but everything else was good. So it has to be food... and why I am in haste because I live in a small enough town that I don't have...

So, the tank has been doing ok. I have lost a few of the coral but I think it was because I hadn't placed them in the right light and flow levels, I am not good at identifying whats what when I get a random assortment but I have had good luck with the orange coral I got as well as the Star...

thank you @lmforbis

@bang guy , yes, I am in Sierra Vista. Thank you for those suggestions, I never considered grocery store sea food as food for reef tank critters but it was just a mental non-connection.... it make perfect sense that if they sell the same stuff frozen as food for critters that the stuff we buy...

@lmforbis, Sadly we don't have a ***** here, the closest one is in Tucson an hour and a half away. Years ago when I started saltwater tanking again I had a mom and pop pet store here in town that actually carried a decent amount of salt water gear and critters but they couldn't survive when...

@bang guy , First thank you for replying. I wondered if I was over doing it with the marine snow and coral frenzy. I will maybe alternate the coral frenzy and marine snow until the snow is gone and then continue with the frenzy. I do not have anything "meaty" as yet for the shrimp and I do not...

So I realized I was forgetting or missing at least one very important detail, probably even more that I just haven't realized or remembered for which I continue watching youtube DIYs for and hope you guys here will point out My errors before they are catastrophic. So a little over a month ago I...

I have not heard of HOt5's... I will have to look into them, I am not sure about any of the types of lights you named except what LEDs are but I knew I wasn't going to convert to them for a while because I had everything for the Halides and fluoro's with the exception of the one burned out...

Well, the last of My Christmas toy's finally arrived this morning. My protein skimmer. I now have it set up in the new sump construct. Now I just need to undo just enough to run the pump and power head that drives the skimmer behind everything and take the heater out of the tank and move it...

yeah that makes sense, I think I remember buying that particular bulb about 15 years ago to use in a big terrarium habitat for lizard my kids had for 6 or 7 months until it tail whipped one of the kids in the face and subsequently escaped.... for the time being I put both of the Marine-Glo's (a...

So my replacement Halide bulb came in today, another casualty from the great tank crash and attempted recovery that failed those years ago. I now have both halide slots full and there are 2 standard 48" inch florescent slots as well, one on each side of the halides. I have collected several...

Thank you both 2quills and beth, I greatly appreciate learning a few things new to Me knowing I have a lot to learn even having been around a reef tank for a number of years... survival of just a few things back then made Me overconfident perhaps but I still need(ed) to learn a lot and helping...

2quills, Thank you very very much for the guidance in identification and also how best to set the identified frags up for success, I do greatly appreciate every singular identification and any words of experience that help Me learn to make them all success' Being that I had no control in what...

Beth, thank you for the insight and while I do not disagree at all, in these specific frags realities, I bought them from saltwaterfish,com in the 5 frag miscellaneous deals available just before Christmas day so I had no control over what I got. In fact I had acquired a few frags before hand...

Well, 37 days down and its been a messy month, the last week and a half more specifically. I finally got enough materials together to start construction of the 30 gallon sump and began by constructing the pvc over flow and using 170 gph pump to return the water from the sump back to the...

Well it's time for an update I suppose. A lot has happened in the last 2 weeks (give or take a few days). My early christmas present from My family was a gift certificate here, which along with reef reward points I had built up those few years back as well as some $$ credits I had as well, and...

So I am 5 days in now to having the new frags (the only living things aside from the percula and some snails and hermit crabs. The snails and crabs and fish are seemingly doing well, but I am still unclear on which corals I have in those frags (pics posted a few comments back) so I do not see...

Thank you for the welcome and guidance. What little I do remember of the corals I was trying was that they were harder than the swimming critters I had had in My tank, some of the fish I had had for years and was going slowish but was definitely starting to branch out to corals because I had...