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I keep 2-3” I use caribe sea live sand from Amazon.
It’s priced the same as dead sand and it’s delivered to my home.
I also keep wrasses and snails and other inverts that need sand.
I have a diamond goby that spends all day cleaning the sand.
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I like a full spectrum tank. I run a full spectrum light for most of the day.
I like sand I won’t do a tank without sand.
I really like a old school rock wall. I don’t really like the negative space tanks.
They look nice but I don’t think the fish are happy with less rocks. I know fish are more...
Well I am from the camp of nature is not perfect.
I believe there is no perfect tank. Death is a part of this hobby.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So what looks great to me
Might look bad to some one else. I use to think my LFS
Had a nice display. Now when I look at that tank I find...
Klein butterfly are not 100% reef safe. I have it in a Frag tank so I can remove the fish. Right now I only have sps in that tank and he hasn’t touched anything.
LRS food contains frozen live black worms and they live that. It’s also a good idea
To setup a qt tank and feed the copper band there. After a few weeks of it eating frozen food with no completion then I would move him to the main tank. I would also move over some live rock from your tank to...
When I took the drive to absolutely fish I was going to buy a copper band and a long nose butterfly. The staff at the store told me long nose butterflies don’t really eat aptasia. They said when they have a problem with aptasia they use Klein butterfly to fix the problem. Copper bands will eat...
You don’t need to feed corals. Corals eat fish poop.
If you feed your fish they will feed the corals. Fish of hex is trying to grow corals for sale. So he wants the most growth possible. I would stay away from reef roids and other coral food. I would keep it simple until your tank gets stable...
I don’t think flow is your problem. If you are growing dragons breath you have to
Dos cheato grow. You need to replenish the nutrients that are used by the macro algae. I would do a follow up icp to see if anything changed. I would do the trident icp as it’s a better icp test.
You should do an icp test to verify your numbers.
You should also send a test for your ATO water to see
If your RODI is working good. Some test will allow you to send two samples.
Lps corals don’t like direct strong flow they like a strong wide random flow.
I like to use gyre style...