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My display is 24 x 12 x 12 - do we think that's too small for a six-line wrasse? He'd be the only fish in the tank. I've presently got some corals, a few snails, and an unruly horde of amphipods in there.

White cloudy.

You mean once I've mixed it into freshwater? No, more like 4 - 6 hours. I'm using Red Sea Coral Pro.

So when should I let go of the worry over the Lysol bomb? I'll double check when I get home to be sure my nitrification process is still going. Still, though - cloudy water. PWCs seem to make it worse, really. I can live with the skimmer's appearance - there's no way it will look worse than...

I know, sorry - there's so much to tell in these situations and I'm not always sure what might be relevant. It's a 20L AIO - the refugium is around 1.5 gallons and full of chaeto. I've never had a discernible nitrate reading. Total water volume is probably around 16 or 17 gallons. This is my...

No sliminess on the rock. I am not running a skimmer, having been told many times that it was not necessary on a tank so small with PWCs being performed once a week. I'm thinking I'll add one now, anyway, though. I don't want to spend the money, however, until I'm confident I know what's...

Nitrifiers, you mean? I don't know, wouldn't everybody would be an awful lot sicker if that were the case? The tank is still crawling with little bugs and my snails are ok..

I'll have to get back to you on params when I get home. I've been changing the carbon at least once a week.

My wife went nuts with a can of Lysol in the room where my tank sits a few weeks ago. Not knowing what else to do, or even whether the tank had been contaminated (though I can't imagine it wasn't), I did a large water change and added some carbon. I've done three ordinary water changes since...

Thanks, Erin. How would a table shrimp be different from dosing straight ammonia? I've only ever cycled tanks with my trusty ammonia bottle, so I really have no idea.

I believe the cycle skipped because I was unable to keep an ammonia reading over 24 hour periods while feeding the tank straight ammonia. Ammonia and nitrite have read zero since I quit feeding it the ammonia. I started with mostly dry rock and a few pieces of live. My guess is that the good...

I intend to stop by an LFS on my way home this afternoon to pick up a canary. My tank skipped cycle (which unsettles me) and I want to stick something inexpensive that's not too sensitive, not too hardy in there to see what happens. I'm eventually going for soft/LPS, but it's really only...

I'm looking at replacing the return pump for my nano tank. Can anybody tell me about the flow rate adjustability from their experience with these pumps? I'm mainly interested in the range of adjustability and how well that works - most small adjustable pumps I've used seem to only actually...

For years when I needed or wanted to cycle in a FW tank from scratch I used straight ammonia from a bottle. I liked that I could dial in smaller or larger bioloads and feed the bacteria continuously as they colonized the tank without having to let things rot in the water. When I started my...

Oh, I am. I know what to do about them, though. ;)

I'm not crazy about him eating the coralline and leaving those white patches. I'm inclined to remove him. Would he survive in the refugium or should I just flush him?

I started a new tank last weekend. This guy came in on the piece of rock pictured. He appears to be eating my coralline. The aiptasia move when little grey thing gets too close, lol. What is he? Thanks!

Excellent. That's what I'll do, then. Thanks.

Would silicone stick in there if I filled the gaps with it? I understand that silicone doesn't adhere too well to acrylic..

I could use some advice/input on a particular aspect of the assembly. This thing will have an acrylic ‘wall’ spanning the width and height of the tank to separate the “sump” section of the tank from the display, with acrylic baffles spanning the distance between the glass and the ‘wall.’ The...