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Peppermint shrimp aren't reliable. If the aiptasia aren't crowding any corals and you can reach them just turn off your pumps and cover them in kalk paste for a while. Or use joes juice.

Sponge possibly.

What about after running the return for a few minutes? Does air build up in the tube.

Your pump is not oversized. That overflow is set for 800gph. You need to be hitting 750gph after headloss. Check the utube. Is air trapped at the top?

If the pump is undersized, adding another utube won't help.

Have you used any headloss calculators to determine the aprox flow rate of the return at the display? What is your return pump and what is the return plumbing? PVC or flex tube? Diameter? Vertical distance between pump and top of tank?

Is there some air trapped in the utube? If so, this can can slow the flow through. Sounds like maybe the return pump is undersized and you aren't pushing enough water through to flush the air out.

What type of overflow are you using?

Time for an update. Added a full spectrum led panel to finish off the lighting. Clownfish are now spawning. Tried to raise some of the fry with no success. No access to green water or live rotifers locally to start culturing. Added a purple tang. Such a beautiful fish. Had a little...

I have a shallow sand bed with a sand sifting star for 2+ years.

1lb per gallon is accurate. But you should still add an ammonia source to make sure you are fully cycled. If you don't want to go with raw shrimp then try getting some PURE ammonia and adding that and see how your tank parameters are after 24 hours. But make sure it is pure ammonia with no...

Separate them.

Sadly, My wife just informed me the diamond goby didn't make it...

Didn't you take the 120 watt EBay LEDs off the 180? Can you use one of those in place of the radion while it is getting repaired? Unless I'm mistaken.

Oh, and... Purchased a BRS 4 stage rodi filter. So nice not driving to lfs to get water. And some updated screen shots:

Been a while so time for an update. Since last update: Rearranged some of the rock and corals. Added 20lbs more sand. Some power cable management. Mounted powerstrips in stand. Galaxea wasn't in a good location (flow and lighting) and developed what looked like brown jelly disease. Lost half...

With a tank that small water changes are easy and all you need to keep nitrates and phosphates in hand. And thus no need to worry about algae and no need for a clean up crew. That being said if you want "clean up crew" then get livestock you would like to see and look at. Any extra will just...

And your tank is a little small for a hippo tang.

That is possible. Though I'm pretty sure mine has an oral disc which tube anemones do not. I would need to get a closer examination of mine. Sitting in the sump that gets no light it is out 24/7 so I should be able to take another look soon.

Fill the hole/crevice with kalk paste or glue so it can't get out. It will eventually die unless it has another way out.

Doesn't appear to be that. More closely resembles aiptasia but it is nocturnal. Which is not a trait of aiptasia as far as I'm aware.

CFL with a shop light is the simplest. And probably cheapest as well.

It's funny. Well not really. But I search the web and find plenty of posts about nocturnal anemone that looks or are described just like ours but not a single positive ID. Any marine biologists out there?

Certainly not a feather duster. And I could find no reference to any nocturnal glass anemones. This is a close up of mine. There is an oral disc just tucked back a bit.

I have the same thing. Only out when lights are off. No one could positively ID. Aiptasia is only response I got. From my searches online the closest I could get is stripped bead anemone. And there is little info on those. Certainly doesn't behave like any aiptasia I'm aware of. I'm sure...