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i have an extra power head in the fuge to tumble it, but i just tear it apart with my hands. i don't think any worms hang out in there since it tumbles.

Ahh. I shut my skimmer off after a few weeks of putting the fuge together. Haven't used it in weeks now, I love not having the skimmer on! I have some small chunks of calurpa and some red macro that I just stuck in there but I'm pretty surethe chaeto is sucking out all the nutrients. Now that the chaeto seems established both nitrate and phosphate in this heavily fed tank are unreadable. Its a super simple setup and I don't have to buy any media or nothing. Sps and my clam are doing great, everything looks good, no nuisance algae, if the tank is happy means I'm happy

Just curios are you having a hard time getting it to actually grow? Mine never grew until I started tumbling it and cutting it up every week or two. The more I feed the tank the better it grows! Good for me cause I love feeding the fish

I bought some of the 5k bulbs from lowes, they seem to be working well.

Are there any corals that are badly affected by chemi-clean?

Yea please keep me in mind, those are neat. Thanks!

Just curious, where did you get yours? Those look like a neat addition to one of my tanks.

I love any fish that adds activity to the tank mostly. I like gobies and stuff too as long as they don't create a dust storm. What I'm doing with my 125 is getting several little different colored damsels that aren't too aggressive and putting them in there, along with my "show piece"fish that us the only large one in the tank. theres also a black finned shrimp goby, six line wrasse, a well behaved coral beauty, and I think a strawberry-something goby? I forgot what the name was, maybe phamily can remind me lol. I like the activity of all the little fish interacting with each other....

If it were mine I'd prob try an eel of some sort, or some of the beautiful wrasses. They have a pretty nice selection of wrasses in austin. I saw some real cute boxfish last time I was there, but they're supposedly not invertebrate-safe...i almost bought a heni. Singularis butterflyfish that day too, I had never seen one in person, he was so beautiful and unusual!

That is so cool, your lucky! My plate was having a series of misfortunes and I was hoping it would split...but it just made 2 mouths instead. Who knows it might just new taking forever to actually split. Your little guy is real pretty

My devils hand you gave me a while back is doing great! Likes alot of flow and its growing new fingers. it finally attached itself good enough on the rubble to put it on rock work lol.

Love this macro, wish I could make it down there this weekend to get some

wow, ive never seen rock that bad, glad i havent! once you get the polyps off, you think its possible to powerwash it, let it dry out, and repeat a few times to get rid of most of the junk? turning it into rubble seems like a pretty good idea to me too

Wow nick, lucky you guys!! i wish you guys the best on your move! if i can come up with some extra $$ quick ill give you guys a call for sure.

I never net him unfortunately too young to be gone, I wish his family the best.

I wouldn't buy one unless they're fully open, and don't have tissue or rib damage.

No kidding! They seem alot hardier than people make them out to be. Only corals that have died on me were some softies when our air conditioner broke for 3 days last summer, tank temps were at least 100°. Even then one of my kenya trees lived and I still have it lol.

Sending you a pm...

LOL def get a vid!

Hmmm....if you can do the polishing while the tank is still set up definitely let me know! ill pay ya to come up here and do all my tanks. With the exception of one, all my tanks were used and have scratches, and one has a crappy haze to it too.

What if they were freshwater tanks before?

He did a fabulous job! Looks brand new. Wish I had thought about it before I set up my 125, it has some bad scratches on it.

How does glass get so scratched up anyhow? I never scratch my tanks...

I use the $1 turkey baster to feed the fish and/or acclimate, use baking soda to adjust alk, and pool phosphate remover to get rid of problem algae if the need arises.

Great thread btw! I'm always looking for cheaper stuff to use on my tank that works just as good or better than expensive store bought stuff

Sorry I didn't get to this sooner, thanks for having us, it was nice to meet someone else who lived in dfw lol. So far so good on the frags, my favorite of yours is the blue digi. I've never seen one in person, it looks like its covered in glitter, very cool!

*Mandarin goby, doesn't matter which kind, MUST eat frozen food*

who sells a mandarin eating frozen lol

hoping i get lucky! lol. no one locally breeds these guys?

i checked out aquatek and aquadome yesterday, but none of theirs were eating frozen. aquatek had some new bangaiis too, but they said this batch was not tank raised D: so the search for those continues.... i didnt even have time to check out fishy business this time around. if all else fails, i might try my hand at trying to train one, i just dont want to kill it if its really stubborn.

*Mandarin goby, doesn't matter which kind, MUST eat frozen food*

who sells a mandarin eating frozen lol

hoping i get lucky! lol.

i checked out aquatek and aquadome yesterday, but none of theirs were eating frozen. aquatek had some new bangaiis too, but they said this batch was not tank raised D: so the search for those continues.... i didnt even have time to check out fishy business this time around.