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I have a new tank setup. It is a 40 gallon breeder with a 20 gallon sump. It is all cycled and has had an ocellaris clownfish pair in it and some palys in it as well for about a month now. It is doing really well and I am getting ready to add more fish. These are the fish we are looking to...

Thank you. That is something I can work with and bring to him. That gives me something to go off of.

I agree with what everyone is saying. I am worried about his load and the amount of fish in the tank, etc. He is still convinced that he will be fine as long as he has a good skimmer because that is what he was told. I think he needs to drop a couple fish from his list as well. Does anyone...

Hello everyone, I have a friend who just bought a tank and started the cycle. He has a 75 gallon tank with about 100 lbs of live rock and about a 2 inch black sand bed. He is trying to figure out what fish to put in and has come up with the following list: 2 Ocellaris clowns 1...

I am looking for some advice on adding some fish to my aquarium. I moved my tank and followed some bad advice a couple months ago and lost all my fish except one female Ocellaris clownfish. I put the clown in my QT tank and then added it a couple weeks later when I knew all the water...

My water is testing at 0 for ammonia, nitrate and nitrite, specific gravity is 1.024, calcium is 400, alkalinity is 8, temperature is at 78 and phosphate is at 0.2 ppm. I have not tested for PH as I am told that if the rest of what I test for are okay it will be too. I know you don't believe...

I know what you are saying about the algae. I know it was a huge problem. I had some bad advice about feeding and how long to leave the lights on as well as how much cleanup crew I should have. I did cut the time down on the lights and also the amount being fed and the algae and also got a...

I still need to get my coral up. Does anyone have any advice on where to put them? I posted my pictures before. Thanks.

They are actually green tentacles, then there is a ring of purple/blue, then the inside is orange with a small yellow dot in the middle. Sorry for the bad cellphone picture/lighting.

It would only let me do 4 pictures so here are my other three corals. Thanks for your help Button Polyps Spiderman Zoa Ricordea Mushroom

My last question is help with where to place my corals in my tank. I would appreciate any advice and what I need to do to keep some of my more aggressive corals under control. Here is a picture of my tank and I would like to keep my rockwork as-is if possible. I like the way I have it set up. If...

My second question is if anyone can identify this zoa? The lighting is not great to bring out the colors but hopefully you can tell me from what you see.

I have a few more questions and I am going to split them into multiple posts on this thread. Here is my first question. I am looking into other options on lighting and I am wondering if I can get some advice. My tank is a 75 gallon tank. It is 36" long and 30" tall. If I were to invest in...

Thank you. The polyps I showed are not the ones I am talking about. I got some galaxia polyps now also.

Great to know. Thank you. The coral that I thought were star polyps are actually called galaxia. Does anyone have any ideas about that one? When you say morning and evening simulation what does that mean? Are you saying to turn on the actinic before and after the halide or just for a...

I see. Thank you. I think I have a 175 watt bulb but I have no idea what you mean by color temp. If I'm thinking about it correctly it is 4000K. Please explain if this doesn't sound right. Thank you.

I don't know about the metal halide right off the top of my head. The reason I'm asking about the actinic is because I want to hook something up to help my corals glow from time to time. The corals I have are listed in my first message. I just need to move some around for visual appeal and...

Thank you. Do I need to keep any of my corals away from others? What about start polyps?

I need some help deciding where to place the corals in my tank. Right now I have a few frags and I need to figure out where to put them. They are in my tank and acclimating well. They are opening a lot and look very healthy. The water parameters are staying good but I basically just put them...

Those look very nice. Thank you for sharing that with me. Mine are more of a brownish color with green in the middle. The tentacles on mine seem to be about the same size as yours so I won't worry about those ones. I am worried about the other one. I am wondering if I have it too close to...

I was given some button polyps a couple weeks ago and I am really worried about them. I wasn't planning on getting them and was told to just put them in and they would be fine. I am worried that they are not doing well, though. I wish I had some pics to share on here so you could see what was...

The Carpenters that I saw was about 3 inches long. I really just lost interest in them and would like to find another option or drop the wrasse altogether. My worry is that I add in a fairy wrasse or something and it gets bullied or is too scared or something and I have lost my window to add...

Thanks for the replies again. This is very helpful information for me. I have added a few fish over the last couple months and of course things have changed in what I have wanted and what I have got. I went to the store to get a Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse and a Benggai Cardinal. and I am not...

Thank you all for all of your posts. Let me take them one by one. First, I never got a flasher wrasse. I loved everything I read about them and what I saw about them but when I went to get it it just was not what I was looking for so I didn't get it. Sorry for putting haldol, it has been a...

No need to worry about me adding things too quickly in my aquarium. I added a clean up crew about two months ago, two fish about a month and a half ago, the coral a couple weeks ago and am now looking to add one more fish. The next one will probably be in another 3-4 weeks again assuming all...