Well, I have one now. When I got him he looked real good. He started melting away then I moved him to my frag tank that I just got set up and cycled. I have him about 11 inches from the light and he is looking real good. I feed him 2 times a day now. He is not a real good filter feeder because I feed my main reef tank 5 ml of food a day. Then once a week I shut off my sump and I leave on my Power heads and I put sinking food in and just go to town and get food all in everything. After a hour or so I suck all of the food out and do a 10% water change. All my mushrooms will be rounded over because they are eating the food. My tank loves the be feed that way. The reason I do this is because I have spent over $3000 in 4 months in my tank and I will not let anything die or my wife will kill me HAHA. I test everything every day and keep a chart of all the lvls. The strange thing is I have never needed to add Calcium to my tank. It stays at about 430 to 465. I do have about 5 lb of Crush Coral in my sump. Is that what is holding my Calcium lvls? My buffering is real good also, and Ph runs about 8.4. I do not add anything to lower it because it is working and everything is gorwing like mad. My green start poylps grow at about 1/8th a inch a month now. I have frags of my White Start Poylps on ----. Check them out. My user name is Joshd123 And my store name is An Open Door. And, the other strange thing is My tank was cycled in 2 weeks. The local pet store freeked out. I have had coral in there from week 3. And a Manderan Goby Lawnmower Blenny, Yellow tank, Star Polyps, Clearer shrimp, and Peppermint shrimp from the third week. I did buy 120 lbs of The best L/R and 100 lbs of Wet Live sand. And I built my own sump out of a 20 fish tank. I did have Power heads but I had WAY to much current. The reason why is because I have a 105 gallon tank and I use a 2000 GPH sump pump. I use the pump for power heads also now =-) The reason I got a bigger sump pump is because I was thinking that to get good water flow you need power heads. That is eating up amps/money and just moving water. So, I just added more filters in my sump and now I got about 40 lbs of L/R in my sump and use the 2000 GPH sump pump to do everything. I hope that after bragging on my setup I dont have a crash in my system. I'm sure I do have stuff I could do better. I have only been doing saltwater for about 4 or 5 months now. I read everything I can get my hands on. If anyone can give me some tips of what i am doing is good or bad talk away. You can even FLAME me if ya want. Just as long as I learn and save my investment.
