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LoL...the move will be no big deal. 250lbs of glass + a flight of stairs sucks!!!

I think a mandarin depends more on the amount of liverock you have, rather than the size of your tank. I've seen mandarins kept in a 75g do just fine. The guy keeping it had 125lbs of live rock in there, and the mandarin was in the tank for 1 year, happy, plump, healthy, and didn't eat frozen.

Nassarius may eat a few copepods here and there, but nothing that would affect the overall population of the tank. In my experience, they are more on the omnivore side rather than carnivore and stick to eating leftover food / detritus in my tank. Bumblebees on the other hand...I try to avoid, as I've read they are very carnivorous and if they can't find the fauna to eat in the sand bed, they go hunting on your rocks for pods.

All plants produce oxygen gas, but it, more often than not, dissolves into the water. It isn't released in large enough quantities at a time to actually "bubble" out of the plant.

Most likely it's a diatom bloom. Nothing major to worry about as most tanks will have them. This is especially true if you are just starting out and your tank is still cycling. How old is the tank?

My ceriths like to crawl over my glass but rarely venture out of the waterline. My Astrae, on the other hand, venture all the way to the top of my tank and like to hang upside down on the top. It's a little precarious, considering they can't right themselves up if they happen to fall off...

Hermits have a new home. Thank you Eleyan, nice meeting you.

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They were sold to my roommate as blue-legged, but I'm fairly certain they are not. They look more like gulf hermits, but could be something entirely different. All of them look to be about 1" big. We took them out of our main tank as we started to lose snails at an alarming rate. Free for the taking...although, I'm not entirely against a small frag of something for my bare tank.

I just started using whatever brand it is they carry at RCA. I've had mixed results. All of my fish seem to appreciate the mysis that are soaked in it except my flame angel. He'll eat non-garlic mysis but will spit out the garlic ones

Welcome aboard Dan!

Found 2 of these guys as HH's in my 75g. Both of them lurk in the shadowy areas of the tank

picked up a ginormous crab and some chromis tonight

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss that claim. Spitting cobras do the same thing, but the eyesight of the cobra is awful. Researchers still don't know how exactly they know where to spit their venom but get it near they eyes/mouth of the victim with something like 85% accuracy.

183 / Duval?!? We are practically neighbors I'm at 183 / Braker. Anyway, welcome to the site!

I have a Koralia 5 (1650gph) on one end of my tank and a Koralia 4 (1200gph) on the other end. It's a 75 gallon, and flow looks good to me. I'm not growing anything particularly difficult yet, but the corals I do have are doing well. From what I've been reading, most people worry about "flow" in their tank when they really are talking about the velocity of the water moving. They are two different things. If you're worried that the K4 is just too powerful, put some nylon over it, or break up the direct flow with some rock-scaping. IMO, it's seems better to have too much flow and adjust from there, than not enough

Here's what happened with my 75g. It's not a 55, so I'm sure your times will be different. Also, all tanks aren't going to go through their cycles the same way and in the same amount of time. With that disclaimer out of the way ... 75g tank arrived, we filled with water and sand (didn't use live sand). At this point we also added a phosphate filter to get those nasties out of the water. Took about 4-5 days for the water to clear up, at this point we tested our salinity and made sure it was where we wanted it. I wouldn't think you would want to test the salinity with the sand still in solution as that can mess you up big time, especially if you use a hydrometer. We added one ~15lb piece of LR to start seeding the sand. Gave the tank about a week and tested our parameters. Everything was through the roof But, this is to be expected as you're going to have some material dying off the LR you put in and it will take time for the bacteria to catch up and "de-nitrify" it. After two weeks, we found a great deal on some LR and put in another ~100lbs of it. This put our cycle into overdrive. There was a HUGE ammonia spike about 3 days after we put it in, but we quickly saw those levels begin to drop as our bacteria was developing. We continued to watch our levels closely and saw the regular dips and rises in our levels. Finally, after another 2 weeks our levels were starting to maintain themselves. Ammonia was staying at zero, nitrites were at zero, nitrates were holding steady (~40ppm). Time for our first water change! We did a 20% water change and tested our parameters again 2 days after. Ammonia still at zero, Nitrites still at zero, Nitrates down to ~20ppm. That's where I'm at with the tank currently, so the cycle isn't completely done yet, but it's getting there. Total time from when I put my first piece of live rock in to this point has been about 4 weeks. We are planning another water change this weekend, so long as our parameters stay near where they are at to help bring that nitrate level down further. Then we'll be putting in the CUC. As I said, though, each tank is going to be different. A co-worker of my roommate started his new tank the same time we started ours and he is still having trouble getting his parameters where he needs them to be. On average, I'd say you'll be looking at anywhere from 3 weeks to 6 weeks minimum, but I'm no expert Just keep testing the water and watching those numbers.

I've read you can superglue the tube openings and they'll die off.

Is that over the period of one day mcallahan? Also, how did you get the measurements to make the graph?