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They will typically be paler at the base, leathers also typically go through period phases where they will go flaccid or shed their outer mucus and look like crap for a day or two.

You could use a 0.5-1 watt laser to kill them, you wouldn't even have to get wet to do it. They can be a little difficult to come by though.

This is normal, the current cloudiness is probably caused by your sand getting tossed around in the tank. You may get cloudy again due to the bacterial bloom from you initial cycle, which is normal as well. Also, a little off topic, but are you using anything to measure the salinity in the...

I personally would go with more than 2 425's as well. The tank would benefit more from randomizing the current as well, either by placing each pump on a 24hr. timer and having them go off and on a 3-4 times a day or by purchasing a wavemaker of some sort.

I got out completely out about 4 years back, due to starting a family, school, and three moves in as many years. I'm also prefer SPS.

+1 little_fish, you can also use super glue gel to glue them down to some rock rubble if you have trouble getting them to attach on their own.

Try your hand at culturing phyto and zoo plankton, that way you'll have a constant supply of food. When I kept them, I fed the tank heavily with plankton 2-3 times a week turning the skimmer off for a couple hours each time about an hour before my lights turned off.

They will make there own room. Another suggestion on moving them if you still want to. Try to get you finger nail under the edge of the coral mat and see if you can simply peel them off. If you can use some super glue gel to stick them on a small piece of rock rubble and mount the where ever...

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The mesh will interfere with the amount of light getting through to the tank, but if the plan is on keeping "simple corals" you should be ok. You may want to try a cut to size piece of plastic egg crate that can be purchased in the lighting section on your local HD or Lowes.

1. Leave the shrimp in the tank to rot away. 2. I don't see any reason why you couldn't start adding your CUC a little at a time say 6-10 individual organisms per week, being sure to keep an eye on your water parameters before adding each batch. Are you running a skimmer during your cycle? Are...

It all depends on what your planning on keeping in the end. If the plan is all softies like xenia, leathers, ect... you can get away with 10-15x the total volume of the tank LPS more like 20-30x SPS almost 40x the volume of the tank You won't want some PH's to pointed directly at any of...

New to this forum, been dry for about 3 years, but have been active with local reef club and other forums to stay up to date on the new tech and info coming out. Currently planning a 40B build which I've been itching to have for quite awhile. I look forward to meeting to meeting some new...