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The conch is amazing. Everywhere it goes it leaves pristine white sand behind. Mine happens to be a tiger conch. The fighting conch are supposed to be good too.

Thanks. That is extremely informative.

I’m going to try a 3 day blackout. That may tell me if it’s lighting related

Yea. I tried and tried. Scrubbed it with a tooth brush, syphoned it out, daily 10% water changes, you name it. 24 hours later it’s back.

I have had a problem with brownish stringy substance on my rocks. I suspect it is dynoflagellates. It used to be on my sand bed too, but I bought a conch, and it cleaned the sand spotless. I can’t seam to get it off my rock. I blast it away daily. It grows right back. I have less than 5...

He did glass for me. I assume he could do acrylic too. Mine was built out of a 20L tank, so it was not a full custom.

I recommend Ocean Image Aquatic, in Ledgwood.

Thank you. Those clowns are great tank citizens. They got transferred from my original 10 gallon tank.

When I tried to run a very big skimmer in my 40, I had a very hard time. I never got it dialed in. I had to go out and buy a smaller one, which is now manageable, but I Shiuld have gotten a even smaller one. That looks like a good skimmer. Pretty good chance someone will make a good trade down...

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No. I kind of misused the tail of the tank as my build thread. I guess it’s never to late to start one though. My drilling, plumbing and sump layout was done at Ocean Image Aquatics.

Please refer to my tail of the tank thread. I posted my reply on that by accident. There are some pics taken today and a breef discription of my system.

Sure here is a couple pics (Im a lousy photographer). A breef discription: I did have the tank drilled. The sump is made out of a 20L. I use jebao return pump and power heads. There cheep, but they work good, if you can live with the wires in the display. The skimmer is a Reef octo 110 SS. It’s...

Im a 40B owner myself. I look forward to seeing how yours progresses.

That’s what I do too. I have one in the sump and one in the display.

I think I’m starting to figure this out. Wasn’t doing well with LPS coral, but there improving steadily lately. Some have receded, but all are still alive. I haven’t added any since mid summer. Here is a quick photo of my tank taken today.

Very nice!

+ 1 for reef RC. Regular IO is only good for fish only. I personally use Red Sea mainly BC it mixes fast. Nothing wrong with instant ocean

I only rinse mine in tank water. Never fresh water. I just grab a bucket of tank water, rinse my sock. I believe there is a good colony of bacteria living in the fibers of the sock, that is beneficial. It also does a mini water change every time, which doesn’t hurt.

I use a single micron sock. It use to clog and overflow frequently. I was thinking about converted to a dual. Now that my tank has been up and running for a while, it does not get clogged very much. Im sticking with the single. I rinse it as often as possible. I replace it with a new one ever...