Recent content by KurtsReef

I would agree its eating some algae or something within the colony and would not worry about it unless you actually see damage to the colony itself.

I agree with Austins Dad you should not have to target feed them, however I do make sure I see the starfish find food at least once a week or target feed with shrimp pellets. I have bristle stars, but would like some Linkia stars like Melosu58 has...if they are reef safe for my corals and...

Got a photo of them?

I would drain it all if not most of it, the chlorine is a problem but even worse are the heavy metals and other problem items found in the tap water. If it were at least filtered water leaving it in to cycle would not sound like such a bad idea too me.

Thats too bad. My kids love all the critters, but their favorite in the tank is the porcupine puffer (more when it decides to stretch out and puffs than not) you can hear them yell throughout the house if they catch it puffing up..too bad it does not stretch more often for them.

I have never had a problem but always trim it down and put the "extra" into my main tank where the tang and snails go to town wiping it out in under a day.

Main looks good, nice rock work. Your sump area looks huge with plenty of room for you to get in there...the 30G I made and is under my 75 takes up the entire area under the tank and is a pain to get in there and really do anything.

I am not too sure why the skimmer if your not going with any corals. If your going to go with fish only and some live rock, and of course clean up crew of crabs and snails the skimmer may be overkill.

I have had a Sailfin Tang for about 7 years now, she was pretty small when i got her and lived in a 45G aquarium for about 3 years. Her growth was one of my excuses to upgrade that tank to a 75G where she has been for the last 4 years. She is now about 7" in size and gets around nicely in the...

If you have moon lights of any sort, placing a piece of food near the LR inside something similar too a a testtube to keep fish from eating it may draw the thing out so you can at least see it. If the fish did simply die of stress, anything in your tank may have decided it was a good snack...

If you feel the need to keep the madrin in QT you could always throw in some of your 125lb of rock in with him...that will place some food into the tank with it.

Thanks, I was linked to both a faucet adapter and a hose adapter and have both on the way. This will just postpone the water change I was planning for today. :cry:

I had planned on hooking the RO/DI unit up to a hose, surprised at the size threading going into the unit and it only comes with a tap for you to tap into a cold water line. Does anyone else run a hose to their unit? Just wondering if there is such a thing as too much water pressure. I plan...

And if fed well, they will grow pretty quickly. I have a sailfin tang in a 75G tank, she does fine in this size but am sure she would appreciate more swimming room.

Thanks Duke, do you have a sump under the tank or in a room below? Any problems you ran into while doing it?