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If I were you, I would point the elbow down, to reduce noise. The venting will be done by the pipe coming off of the tee.

"Salesman" Shop owner: "Corals are much more sensitive to the water quality. So if you one day see your corals not 'open up' as nicely as they normally do, that is a good indicator that something is wrong with the chemical balance. The responsible shop owner: "Test kits are very sensitive...

Those yellow tail damsels will eventually be the aggressors in your tank. I have a blue damsel, and it was the last addition, and a model citizen. Until I added two small green chromis (I already had one big one). The damsel chases the small chromis regularly. Also, I have the same type...

With mushrooms you can frag them two ways: Cut them like pizza, making sure each "slice" gets a piece of mouth and foot. or Cut the top from the foot, and secure the top somewhere else. The foot will grow a new top.

I think it would be more humane to just use a test kit for copper. If it tests 0, then add snails.

Before you start killing the aiptasia, turn off some of the flow in the areas around the bugger, because you do not want kalk paste flying around the tank. Also, when you are done, suck any excess kalk paste off with a turkey baster.

I reccommend strongly that you use a skimmer on a small setup. Something like a backpak or remora will do well. Or you could make your own. Also, I don't think adding another normal output (NO) lightbulb will be able to sustain corals. With small tanks, it isn't the same as with a large tank...

There are tons of different kinds of wrasses; one of the largest groups of marine fish. If you are bare bottom, and have super flow and a awesome skimmer, you might as well stay that way. The minimum depth of a DSB should be 4 inches. Mandrin: could you give us some water parameters to...

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The green chromis can be very aggressive within a group of their own species. Say you have six, it will end up being two. And if you try to add more smaller ones, be prepared for a war! (Like I saw my chromis do yesterday) Certain damsels also grow up and out of their juvenile coloration and...

Be sure to ask the LFS whether theyy are selling cured or uncured live rock. I think it is better to cure the live rock outside of the tank because the live rock will actually "shed" detritus and the nutrients that will fuel many algae blooms.

Badroma- I do not know if dead spots in your sand could cause high nitrates. Unless you have a DSB, the sand will only be producing nitrates instead of denitrifying. Maybe try some macroalgae for nutrient export (Nitrate and phosphate). Also, in the first post, you meant a cleaner wrasse. :)...

Don't get a damsel, they are viscious. Good live rock is porous, not very dense, has "life on it", isn't mostly brown, has little pest algae (hair, micro, red turf, bubble, etc.), holes in it. My favorite live rock is Marshall Island.

A freshwater dip can drop off some of the parasites, but they will be present in the main tank. Prepare a freshwater dip: 1 gallon of fresh water at tank temp and 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda (To buffer pH). Do the dip for 2 minutes. Garlic is used as an apetite stimulator, which in turn...

I always thought it was bad to keep two different species of clowns together. If you do, IMHO, don't do it with skunk clowns because they are shy. Also, to get a pair of maroons, you have to introduce a juvenile clown to a large female. The process is described in much more detail in Joyce...

You could always use chemi-clean or maracyn 2 (SW version) to kill the cyano. Be sure to do a 25% water change afterward.

Good job on the skimmer, good thinking on the carbon on the bucket. I went to premium aquatics last weekend, and on some of the skimmers, the cups led to five gallon buckets with pieces of pvc filled with carbon as vents to keep the airflow in the skimmer and to filter out da funk. Also...

The ricordia need more light than regular mushrooms. You could try putting them on the rockwork.

Ooo, that is bad. Part of your macro problem may be caused by the lack of a skimmer. The skimmer removes a lot of the waste macro thrives on. Also, sps require nutrient stripped water and low nitrates to survive, provided by the skimmer. But, your tank looks great!

In the mantis shrimp forum at RC, they have frequent trades of mantis, and they know the scientific names of their stomatopods.