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A good rule is do one step, and wait until it stabilizes before doing anything else.

The bubble thing is really amazing, how the fish know to do this.

I thought that mysis were too big for baby clowns, depending on how baby of course. Might consider artemia instead.

Blue Ribbon Eel Pinnatus Batfish

I agree about the 55; never was my favorite. Prefer lower, higher, longer, etc. Another factor to consider is insulation; thicker = more insulated from room temperature.

"Algae scrubbers are one of the few, if not the only, nutrient removal systems that give me something back: Growth. It's a no brainer" -- Jim Stime, LA Fishguys "I see algae scrubbers as the single most significant nutrient exporter you can have" -- Stephen Babcock, The Corner Reef, Columbia...

It's funny, one of their big warehouses with cans-on-cars is around the corner and I pass by it weekly.

Agreed mostly. I'm only on social to reach new hobby people.

Some forums use FB just to post the topic of the day, which lets new people find it there, and then click to go to the forum. It's a good way to reach new people who don't even know forums exist.

You have the advantage of a new tank, so you don't need to worry about hurting anything. Just start out with one fish and see how it goes.

This applies to freshwater too: Photosynthesis Lighting Test: Duration: 4 months Harvests: 13 Location: Saltwater Lights: 3-watt 660 nm (red) LEDs, 500 ma. Photoperiod: 18 hours Air bubble flow: 24 hours

Did you get to fly them?

Are the FW nerite snails like the SW ones which climb up walls?

Aquatic Biology Basics... the videos: - Ocean Productivity - Photosynthesis part 1 - Food Chains vs. Food Webs - Nutrients and Primary Production - Chlorophyll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtZ75KW2t-U - Zooplankton and Primary Production http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quH4x640Jgs -...

This came up on another forum a bit ago, and they were located somewhere, at a different site.

Easy way to understand is that they remove food particles. Including fish waste, which is food for micro critters (and in saltwater, for corals too).

Cleaning Off Slime On New Scrubbers When scrubbers are new, they will almost always first develop a slimey first layer of growth. This is because diatoms and dino's, which make up most of the slime, are the quickest to be able to "colonize" a new surface, sort of like weeds in a new garden. But...

Always wondered about these types of fish.

Joey also has a vid of making one of our upflow algae scrubber bubbling designs. Fairly easy. And they remove ammonia and nitrates, unlike cannisters. And you can feed the growth back to animals, for free feeding, like this fellow did...

Chaeto Reactors compared to Algae Scrubbers, part 3 Now for nutrients. Nutrients are defined as inorganics, not organics. The word "nutrient" is sometimes confused with "nutrition", and maybe in restaurants the words might mean the same thing, but for aquarists they are totally different...