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Sounds really great. I just sold my end game tank and am out of the hobby. Whats the plan for the new setup? Will you be moving the separated clown tang in with general public?

Don't ever dose anything unless it is necessary. This is especially true with things that 'address ph'. Most people don't even understand how ph works and dump chemicals in. End of the day, especially in winter months with furnaces running, pH levels will be lower as it goes through its...

Start off with the water in the tank being warmer than the surrounding enviroment. Once you tie in winter conditions, the furnace will suck the humidity out of the air. The same happens with cooler air, but it is much more drastic with the hot dry air we circulate during winter months. So in...

You'd be surprised how far a drunk can take a car that shouldn't be drivable. I'm more surprised that they left that junction box just laying there on the ground. I don't worry about these kinds of incidents. In my old house we lost power all the time and I would simply stir with a spoon...

Any special care?

A rankin cod? Now we're getting some unique fish now. What brought that big boy about?

A new build? Looking forward. Wish I had mine in better order when looking at outstanding setups like yours.

Add ammonia to 2 ppm. If you test and it and nitrites are gone in 24 hours you are cycled. Just repeat until this happens.

You shouldn't. Once a foot is placed, it is difficult to do as it is easy to damage the foot. Once a foot is damaged there isn't any recovery. People will report using credit cards and such, but the safest way would be to point a powerhead at it and trick it into moving on its own...but then...

Looking sharp bud. Keep it going.

I've never worked with Mili-Q, but the college I went to did it's own that it collected from rain water. What I recall, the TDS of this was really close to 0 if not 0. But that was for a reason I'm sure, but there wasn't a DI resin phase like we run to make that final jump from ~10 to 0. I...

Nice. Glad you're taking care of it now. I know I ended up with titanium something or other...I don't recall what kind I have, but it's two of them.

Looks like tubes of filter feeders of some sort.

My suggestion is to get a ro/di and to make sure you are going in with 0 nitrates. I tried to chase nitrates in my last tank with water coming in with nitrates. Never caught it and was out a load of money during the time I tried to do so. Ro/di is the cheap and proper solution.

My answer is no. I tried many 'with caution' over the years. Nothing worked out. When it comes own to a reef, the coral are the most important thing in there for me. I won't ever put a with caution fish in a reef ever again. It isn't worth the cost.

For the last 4 years. Nudi's, filefish, product this and that. Here we are.

Aiptasia says otherwise.

Was supposed to have a guy come look at it to buy but didn't happen.

It would be minimal. Pods and such things go through pumps and pipes all day long on all the other equipment. I wouldn't want it to go through a UV sterilizer though.

That is a nice glass box man.

Well, that light should be more than enough to support your tank. I'm on board with parameter issues now. There is no reason to be dosing anything into this tank. Standard water changes is all you'll need. This is a small tank with not enough coral to remove enough of the calcium or alk out...

Steps in the right direction. Once they get so high, it can feel like an eternity until they go down. And it can be depending on how high they are. Just make sure you're ro/di is at 0 tds to make sure you aren't putting nitrates or phosphates back in and you'll be golden. Just keep the course.

Build up that is decaying to cause your nitrates won't he under the rock. It will be built up in the low flow areas in the tank. Make sure to check corners and at the back if at all possible.

This is an issue with lighting. Looking at that duncan polyp shows such, it is bleaching. Should we assume this is a stock light that came with the tank? It will need upgraded.

I wouldn't say it is weird. They are locked up in the tank. Get in there and siphon around the rocks during water changes. They will go down.