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to a degree it does defeat part of the purpose, its supposed to be a "refuge" from the main tank and your adding more waste by putting a fish in there, as well as a small fish will be a predator for copepods and other small critters that you want. But the majority of the purpose is nutrient...

being that small of a tank i think by adding the rock you initiated another cycle, the cycle should be short but i'd def. keep an eye on it

if you have the time, i like to take a piece of air line and put the coral in a 5g bucket, tie the airline in a loose knot and then syphon tank water till the bucket is 1/2 full or about x2 the amount of water it had. dump half that back into the tank and repeat once or twice more till the water...

i don't think so, though i'm no expert. I've wanted to find 1-3 more to test out if they can reproduce in the aquarium but no luck thus far.

thats exactly what it is I had 2 but now only one as the other died in my old tank. They are great cleaners and even though they get big i have never seen mine do anything bad like moving frags. (mine's about 2in long and about an in wide)

feed it from the bottom of the tank, ignore it when it does that?

not sure which snail lays those eggs but i get them all the time in my tank, they'll lay them and the eggs stay there for a couple days then either just fall off or one of the hermits gets ahold of them... they and the other eggs that get laid from snails in my tank never seem to hatch as i...

+1 vote on this with the current picture try to get some more light on it for a proper id

not sure what it is, but looks like some sort of sponge, does it move or have any reaction when you touch it?

I plan to echo this plan, i filled my 180 with the water, now a week later, i'm emptying the tank again to pull it 2 inches farther from the wall. I feel bad that i'm gonna have to refill it but not as bad if i had filled it with rodi/LFS water

+1 for all the stores minus island as i've never been there, go with LFS if you can as it keeps them afloat and also they can answer pretty much any question you throw at them as well as they can help find/locate the best specimens for you

All sound like great ideas, i think i'll try the bathmat and sand tricks tomorrow

So I finally got my 180 up and filled. Go to turn on the return, the thing is noisy but rather than the sound of a pump it seems more like the vibrations from the pump coupled with the acrylic sump in a wood stand is the cause. The pump isn't a normal aquarium pump but rather one for pumping the...

I started with 30 gallons from the tank when it was setup at the previous owner's mother's home. It had an eel in it so the salt levels couldn't be too high but i didn't test it prior to adding NSW. I've been leaving the hydrometer submersed in the tank and it seems at the rate i'm adding water...

just put a piece of LR rubble in a friend's sump for a week or so then transfer it to your sump and they will spread or just borrow a piece from a friend that has some on it (usually a piece that gets less light)

I'm currently using the Seattle Aquarium water to fill my 180 (slow going as i can only transport 30g at a time) but i've noticed nothing out of the ordinary. I talked to the aquarium guys a while before starting and it seems their upkeep on filters is checked daily or every other day. The large...

it was set off in the room, with 6 dogs the flea problem can get bad fast, and I covered the tank but forgot to cover the back air holes... Not only that but the next day we went to FL to visit my sister so i left the lids on to prevent some of the normal evaporation and so the tank didn't get...

As I just bought a 180 that'll be a mixed reef i plan to take plenty of pictures once its full of SA water. I'll let you guys know what happens

So after a disaster with my 125g (flea bombs poisoned the tank, only one domino damsel survived) I'm restarting in a bigger tank. I bough me a 180g off CL and I'm setting it up eventually as a mixed reef. On to the help needed, I set up my RO system again to start making water... bad luck...

i had a mandarin jump the overflow, took a couple days to find him and he was really skinny after that... he eventually died, i think he choked on a big piece of mysis cause he was trying to cough it out but couldn't.. sad day