Finally, getting my 75 gallon started

[Doc]

try a reef safe starfish like sand stars and linkia starfish. choc chip, red generals, etc will massacre your corals and fish. Star fish are a bit touchy so you will want to wait a few months before adding one

-Doc

[bobby]

Chacolate chips will eat your coral. I took the chance learned that the hard way. I wouldn't try a sand diffter or linka. Sand sifters need a very mature tank and are not very hardy at all, and as for linka's, well noone really knows what they eat and all will die usually within 18 months due to malnutrition. The only linka I have heard to survive are the ones in extreamly large tanks. Some easy stars that are reef safe would be serpent stars, or a brittle. Both are hardy and good stars for a tank. One note though, if you get a brittle DO NOT get a green brittle. They're also know as the green death because they are fish eaters. I also learned that the hard way as my green brittle ate my black clown. Back to linka for one second, there is a star that looks just like a linka that does pretty good in the tank but I can't remember the name.

[Doc]

I kept a blue linkia for over two years. I thought it was easy to keep. whatever it ate, it found it in my tank. I tried to save it when I moved, but that is what killed it. too bad cuz it was getting really big and full-looking. I agree about a mature system being required for best results.

-Doc

[Pheeshes]

Well, that was the stipulation i had from my wife, i got to do this as long as we had a clown and a choclate chip star, but i explained to here how they aren't reef safe and she just took it really well, haha.

on to the bad news, i got the glass today for my baffles in the fuge and the person on the phone wrote down the wrong measurments so they are 1/2 in to narrow. i was going to try to make it work, but i don't know if that's a good idea. so i called and i think they are going to fix it. they do alot of work for my families business so i hope they'll treat me right. the are currently remodeling our entire main office so i see the construction manager a couple of time a month.

[Doc]

silicone works great to fix small problems like that. globs and globs of it. won't look pretty, but it will work

-Doc

[Bifferwine]

1/2 inch is a pretty big gap for silicone to fill. I'd just do as he said and try to get it redone.

[bobby]

I went to true value and they cut it right there on the spot, and it was a little over a buch apiece.

[Pheeshes]

well, i'm hoping they'll fix it for no charge, if not then i'll probably look into some place else to get the pieces that are the right size

[bobby]

Sounds good. Keep us updated.

[yote]

Originally Posted by Bifferwine

1/2 inch is a pretty big gap for silicone to fill. I'd just do as he said and try to get it redone.

Actually what you'll end up with is 1/4" on each side if you center them up.
You can take a couple of strips of 1/4" plexi-glass to snug up the fit,then just use the silicone like normal.