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This is whom we used for a lid and highly recommend, doesn't look like they have your tank as a stock one, but I would reach out an ask.
We use a flipper scraper but every week or so we just clean it manually
Looks like you have a great setup to start and taking it slow is always the way. For water changes, you can go through the floor or just get a really long piece of tubing to run the water changes from the basement up stairs.
Getting mushrooms to attatch is always a waiting game. There are mushroom "traps" that people sell that is essentially a box with the mushroom and some rubble in there and hopefully the mushroom attatches to a rock that you can then glue to a frag plug. You can DIY it with just about any...
Welcome to NJ and back to the hobby. The only real knock on the black sand is it has iron in it which can stick to magnets and scrape your glass IF you are using a magnetized scraper. In a nano like that, you won't have that issue so enjoy the sand, I have always like the look of it.
I believe it is the first time they have hosted a show so nothing to really go on. The vendor list looks solid which is always good, will be following it and seeing if we can make it up as it gets closer.
Instant ocean because we run a calcium reactor. Used to use fancier salts but they got too expensive and too hard to track down and quite frankly our tank is fine.
With any of this stuff testing and retesting is always the best way to figure it out. The easiest adjustment would be to move the chaeto out of the system and see if anything changes, if it is sucking up the nutrients you will see that. You can also dose nitrates and phosphates but again you...
Oh man, just settling back in at home and putting the corals in. We had an absolute wonderful time today. I don't know if the two days were radically different but we did not experience a lot of what people were talking about from yesterday. First off, RAP is not going anywhere, they had more...