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Dosing live phyto helps feed them, but you'll never get rid of them, even if you wanted to. And if you do. They are very easy to culture. And if you get tisbe pods they can be cultured using old fish food. So basically, don't worry about them, they'll take care of themselves, if you want to...
#1 tank breakdown rock. Before I knew better I got a 150 with the live rock from a downgrade tank. Had no idea what I had at the time. Great rock, no pests. All my dry rock started tanks were prone to plagues . First tank was live rock and Petco rock. Lots of pests but I never kept coral so I...
I took a similar lux meter and vacuum sealed it so I could put it in my water and get an idea of what par is where more precisely because of depth and shadowing. Lots of research basically landed on dividing it by 40 or 60 I did both and that will give a pretty accurate range of par. I...
Just make sure you rinse it. Excited to see if it works in another tank as well as it did mine. Works well for freshwater too. A friend of mine turned me on to it that does fresh water.
I use a heavy duty surge protector with single smart plugs attached. Some models default on, and some default off. I would use only these styles for equipment and smart plugs that default to "last known position" are reserved for lights because I have found that to not be reliable enough.