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Would going with the T5s as opposed to PC broaden our spectrum of what could be stocked in the tank?

My boyfriend and I are moving across town at the end of the month, and figure since we're moving the tank, it'd be a good time to do a little bit of an overhaul. Eventually, we'd like to do some coral in our tank. We have a 135 gallon Oceanic tank. It is 72" long. Our lighting budget is about...

Thanks for the help! :)

So that likely means I'm over feeding? Should I scrape them off the glass, then?

I have these skinny white specks on the back glass panel. They're attatched by one end, the other points into the tank. They're probably 1/8" long or so. I've two adult feather dusters in the tank, and I used to have a flame angel before he died. I know flame angels eat baby feather...

Will definitely try the sponge idea. Thanks, everyone!

At the time of deaths, perfect. No ates/ites, ammonia, our ph stays 8.2-8.3. It's been a month and a half since we've had a loss. ...and I don't know anyone around here who does necropsies on fish. :P We're not going to get any more fish until the lighting gets upgraded and we get...

Certain, as once found, each time there was a mad scramble to unplug the PH, and then the fish would live for a few hours trying to swim around before dying.

For our tank, we have a pair of Penguin 1140 powerheads. They're built like this: http://www.backyardstyle.com/shop/shop_image/product/94983826d14541d01ef379d597565d29.jpg We have had TWO fish die on these getting caught on the intake. One chromis, and our flame angel fish. Has anyone...

Well, CRAP. The wrasse died in the two hours Mike and I were gone for dinner today. We came home, and the poor thing was hermitcrab/sallylightfootcrab/nassariussnail dinner. :( Water's fine, the other fish are fine. :: SIGH :: I guess we should wait 'til we have more experience 'til we...

GOOD NEWS! I just ordered an RO/DI unit from thefilterguys. YAY! That should take care of the flippin' cyanobacteria problem.

We do now. That clip was when we first put water/salt in the tank - nothing else was in the tank then. :)

Link above updated with two brief clips of the wrasse! ...and a reflection of our dog The wrasse is VERY shy, so it's hard to get pics/video of him/her.

Or me. ;)

Thanks, Ziggy! The wrasse is in hiding. I think I saw him all of three minutes yesterday after putting him in the tank. Thought he might come out of hiding for food, but no such luck. I know he hasn't been eaten, considering how hungry the nassarius snails were this morning. Lost the...

Currently have three feather dusters, and they get 1 capful of DTs twice a week.

Fish store today. Two new feather dusters (one stressed quite a bit once getting him in our tank, and dropped his head. Meh. Seems to be doing fine otherwise, but he was the prettier of the two we got). I was hoping they'd have clown fish in stock, but no such luck. I DID, however, purchase a...

Durr. I meant rinsing SAND, not rock. Oops. Though while we're on the subject, when getting new base rock to add to an established tank, I've heard to hose it down with a hose, then let it sit in water for a few days. Is this correct?

Thank you. On that note, I'll steer clear of live sand. It's almost play sand season, isn't it? :D :D :D :D When you rinse rock, what kind of water do you use? Tap, RODI'd water, other?

Thanks. How would I rinse the sand? Put it in a bucket, add water, swish, let settle, remove water?

Down to one chromis. Still have the angelfish and the gramma, and the other inverts. Added 5 trochus snails last weekend. Still battling cyano, but keeping it fairly under control with frequent water changes. The ROWAphos I ordered came today, and will be ordering an RODI unit this...

Well, we've not purchased any more fish or critters. We're kind of holding out 'til we can upgrade our lighting. However, over the past two weeks, we've lost three of our chromis. One, who we'd named Fridge, was really the "runt" of the "litter." He was never quite right, and never recovered...

Is the same general rule in place with waiting a year before adding coral?

Yesterday's booty: 1 flame angel 1 feather duster 1 sand-sifting starfish about a dozen nassarius snails. We're working on this whole take-pictures-against-glass-without-flash thing. We'll see if we can dig up a tripod. I think we'll wait for a while to add more fish and stuff. We...

We'll forego the firefish, then. We have chromis (which are a type of damsel, right?), but they leave the royal gramma alone. In fact, it's the gramma who will chase a chromis away if they get too close to his cave.