Meteorflower

I used to keep a Figure Eight puffer, but I work with green spots a lot. My understanding is that they can tolerate fresh water for a time, but they really prefer brackish as adolescents, and eventually switch to full marine salinity as adults. They also can do significant damage to other fishes despite having tiny mouths, so keep an eye on him! And congrats on your new puff

Neat! That's some good-lookin' rock you got there.

You might have luck with the new maroon if you divide the tank for a few days, or float him in an eggcrate basket or a colander. That will give them time to see each other without letting them fight. I've heard that can sometimes work with aggressive fish like triggers.

Congratulations!

If it's on the wall of a glass tank, a razor blade works just fine. I also used to surround my colony with a few small rubble rocks to create a buffer zone. Whenever the xenia spread onto the rocks, I would take them to the LFS and trade them in (for, among other things, a few more rubble rocks!). It's not the neatest method, but it worked very well. Good luck!

I've found it's best to assume that if your fish is from a species that is known to jump, just assume that he will try it at some point in his life and plan accordingly. I recently lost my blue spotted jawfish to jumping; he made it out of a minute crack in the screens that I was using to cover the tank. I'd had him for two years. I will not be getting another one until I build a full canopy to keep him in. And while the mandarins I've known are not typically jumpers, they are capable of surprising bursts of speed and would sometimes jump out of the water if startled. Hope this helps!

I've seen my clowns eating pods, though they're not the best pod hunters in the world...

He might do well in a FOWLR tank...

Cute! He looks like mine.

Good luck! Glad to see your nitrites went down.

I started out using tap water but switched to RO/DI after six months of battling algae. I wanted to see if it could be done, but found that hauling RO/DI really was less work than trying to control the nuisance algae! Trust me, it's easier to just avoid tap.

+1 on gel super glue, though I always manage to get some on my fingers...

Mangroves are slow growers, they're more ornamental and interesting than efficient nitrate removers. Macroalgae does a better job. Just make sure to obtain either ungerminated seed pods, or seeds that were germinated in water of the same specific gravity as your tank, as red mangroves do not take kindly to even gradual changes in salinity.

I like the Oceanics, but that's just because that's what my tank is I replaced my old tank with a new Oceanic because I wanted to install a wavebox, and Bruce at Aquatek warned me that it was playing with fire to put a wavebox on a tank of unknown age, since they strain the seals and older tanks will often spring leaks with a wavebox pushing on them. I like how heavy-duty the glass on my Oceanic is, plus the front panel is Starphire glass. So there's my vote.

I have noticed that All-Glass Aquariums are made of really thin glass compared to other brands. They're lighter, but they tend to have more bracing too, and I prefer something more durable.

I believe lost an Acro frag to one of these things - didn't notice it growing on the frag base, and I'm guessing it stung it. There was no other bobvious reason for the frag to die so suddenly. Keep an eye on it...

I've also just been feeding slowly when I feed the fish, and turning off the skimmer when I feed liquid or very fine foods to the corals. My macroalgae and zooplankton refugium takes care of the rest...

I would also like to know the answer to this.

It's good for your tank, don't worry about it.

Regal's where I got the acrylic to make my own overflow boxes on my last tank. They were very helpful.

Nice! Feed that puppy lots, maybe it'll make clones faster!

I started out with crushed coral, and ended up switching to sand. I prefer the sand because it lets me have more interesting sandbed dwellers, like gobies and Nassarius snails.

They're nothing to worry about. The stars are good detritivores.

I've got some sponge that looks like that.

Okay, thanks, you've been very helpful!

That's what I thought, but I think this overflow is the kind that has slots in the top, middle and bottom. How would I modify that?