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Best tips I can give are to blow the rock off with a turkey baster once a week. I use SeaChem's Reef Advantage Calciuma and Reef Builder to manage the alk, calc, mag, strontium in balance. Coralline algae can grow under even low light like that with NO lights. I do a partial water change...

Mine are kind or erratic like that also My Oc. clowns are like that also,. I get a kick out of watching them swim in the current. They really struggle to swim in the strong current and their swimming is kind of erratic. Yep, when they sleep they sleep in a half float or lumber. Odd and...

Normal behavior Mine do it also. That is normal behavior. The smaller one is the male.

PWC's PWC's do make me yearn for a hanging set of lamps however. I've just got a 55G regular and lifting the 48" lamps off is a pain. I can't imagine having to deal with a canopy. Yep, I want a in wall tank and pendulum lamps hanging over so I can just walk into my fish room and go to work...

Fighting with boiling water Ah, very cool. That was my next question. eg;, should I wait til I need to top off or should I take water from tank and boil and then do battle. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks,

Hot water When you used hot water did you squirt with a turkey baster ?

My experience has been that .. My experience has been with the rock I purchased from liverocks.com that within the rock lived many small inverts. And it just took months for some of the little creatures to grow large enough to venture out on their own. I still like many cannot say enough good...

Bad crab I've continued to have crabs crawl out of my live rock even after a year ! One by one most of them I've caught and taken to a LFS. You'll know if you want to keep him or not if he starts tearing at your rock. A few like the sally lightfoot filter feed but many will tear at your...

Maybe a T5 lamp I've been seriously considering a Nova Extreme T5 for my 55G. $199 and 216 watts. You get an electronic ballast, fans, 216 watts of light and white LEDs plus legs for about $50 to $75 less for the Coralife. Course most places have it backorded right now.

Bought the neons I went ahead and bought the tiny neon goby's. Geezo, they shrunk in my 55G when compared with the 20 they were in at the store :-) Pretty cool, they sort of hop around and lay on the glass sideways. But too small. That's OK. I've only got a FOWLR so I've never invested in...

I have a 55G FOWLR that is a year old. Haven't lost anything other than a Peppermint Shrimp in month 4. All is good. Presently have 2 Oc. Clowns, one Royal Gramma, one Purple Firefish and an assortment of hermits and filter feeders that came with live rock. Would like to add some blue to...

Looks like the Jebo got better Looks like the Jebo got better as now it has fans and LEDs. I'm not a fan of chinese made products but admittingly it is tough not to consider it given the savings. Are you happy with the noise level, fans too terribly loud ? What about the whole overall...

Salt creep on PCs if no glass top ? Hey thanks, I'll check that out. If I use the Coralife legs does that get the lamps high enough above the water that I won't have salt creep on the reflector and lamps themselves ? As it is now with my cheapo plastic top and NOs the salt creep finds its...

I've got a 55G with almost 70lbs of live rock and I'm stocked with a pair of clowns, royal gramma and a yellow tang. Tank was started in Jan of this year. I've got three powerheads, sand bottom and still run a Emperor with carbon or Chemi Pure. Now I'm ready to step up from NO to PC lights...

black long spine urchins I've got one that is getting huge also and leaving a white trail on my pink coraline algae wherever he goes, I may end up doing the same, I've been holding off as it is a neat creature but may have to, was hoping my coraline to keep up with him