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I voted to get rid of them suckers! They're nothing but trouble, IMO. I'd use peppermints.

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i believe the white flatworms are not considered to be harmful in anyway, but actually a sign of healthy maturity in your tank.  Your problem most likely lies somewhere else.  I didn't see ammonia and nitrite in your params, did you get those?

I'll take the 3" red planet!

Dang, nice grab on the 3" RP.  Good for you, sad for me.

Cool, glad to hear the company standing behind its service and products.  Are you going to frag off the living parts, or keep it whole?  I've never had much luck with part of a coral dying and the rest surviving unless I cut off the dead parts.  But yours may be fine, who knows.

Hope you ripped into whoever you bought that from; you shouldn't be selling corals over the internet if you don't even know how to ship them properly.  Sad, what a beautiful coral.

OK, a serious price reduction bump this time

$225 obo

I offer you one crab.

I assume this is the best offer you have received and consider it a done deal.

I will pick up the light tomorrow.

Kthx.

You'll have to offer me a lot more than just your crabs.

There are some pretty disgusting things in this hobby, yikes.  

Very nice in-wall setup!  

Bump for Price Reduction!!!

$249.99                                                                                                     ....or make me an offer

So you never got any info about color temps?  Website says its for cove, display, retail, exhibit, architectural, and hospitality lighting.  It'll probably be around 6.5k under those circumstances.  

Brink, then Rage

I'm going to add a vote out of experience for ALK swings, which happened in my tank and I lost a big birdsnest colony just as you describe due to it.  I have a small tank which is even harder to stabilize too sometimes than larger tanks.  Definitely keep on top of pH/dkH.  To fix my problem I had to dose buffer twice a day instead of one, now things are stable and all my SPS are much happier.

Any sand bed is going to be a detritus trap, and will eventually crash.  IMO, crushed coral is going to serve you much better than sugar sand.  If you don't like the looks of crushed coral or bare bottom and insist on fine sand, just be aware its not going to help you any better.  Siphoning the sand regularly might be a good idea, but a 40g is a little small for a full grown sand sifting star.  Plenty of nassarius snails will help keep the sand bed stirred.

Checking interest in this.

I have a New In Box Coralife Aqualight Advanced 150w Metal Halide Hang-on Tank Mount fixture for sale.

$250

Am I to understand that some of these aquariums are suspended from the ceiling and are viewed looking upwards!?

I don't think you view them looking upwards, you view them in the normal fashion. They just don't have a stand/cabinet underneath them.

That looks like a serious PITA to maintain.  No wonder they spend upwards of $1000 / month for someone else to do it! 

Am I to understand that some of these aquariums are suspended from the ceiling and are viewed looking upwards!?  I'm no engineer, but I'm sure a lot of the cost in some of these tanks is just shoring up the structural support.  I've been in some NY brownstones that shouldn't have even passed code. 

Tank looks real nice and clean Robb, good job.  Can't wait to see more of it.

I have no experience with a Blue and Gold, but I have a Tailspot Blenny that has been perfectly reef safe for me.  Sorry to hear your bad luck.

That's great to hear, I picked up a Reef Octopus 150 recirculating for my 75g.  I've read generally positive things about these skimmers for the price, but I was a little hesitant to pick it up over some of the other more established brands.  Hopefully mine will perform just as good as well. 

What model skimmer you got?

Yeah, that tang does look neglected and malnourished.  I bet its been through quite a lot.  Now, it needs some TLC and a good diet.  You can be that fish's hero!

Also, I bet a lot of that equipment will clean up nicely and with a little work and some additions you can make a proper reef out of it yet.

If you are two weeks into a new tank cycle, then:

Orangeish-brownish stuff is a diatom bloom.  This is a normal part of the cycle.  Google up on it.

The worm is a bristle worm.  Almost every tank has these.

One of your pics looks to have some tube worms, also a sign your tank is maturing.

The shrimp like creature is probably a copepod; a sign that your tank is maturing.

Do not add corals or fish until your tank is finished cycling.  Read up on cycling a new marine tank, and don't be in too much of a hurry.

Also, what kind of lights do you have and how big is the tank?

Depending on how bad the tank has been neglected, you may have to end up cooking the rock.  Vinegar works well on cleaning the equipment.  But I wouldn't seed anything from this tank into your existing tank without thorough treatment.