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beautiful fish. Are they reef safe? For a hard coral display - As far as I know almost all angels (japanese swallowtails and may one or two others that elude my mind) are going to pick at your corals. A Niger Trigger will consume mobile invertebrates. So if you are ok with replenishing your...

hey brian - does the screen "rust"? i've been meaning to get one together..another "to do" list item.

Yes - 20 years ago wet dry were state of the art. I remember installing one of those along with a UGF. They have a function and place for FO tanks but not so much for reef tanks today. You could take the same box, dump the bio balls and use the space for a refugium. But you're better off...

sorry to hear....

is this a FO tank? because that is the only reason why i'd ever consider a wet/dry filter. Otherwise you will be battling nitrates all the time with the bioballs. Set up the tank with live rock and then the sump will house just the skimmer, maybe a refugium and/or a bio pellet reactor. Other...

so to reconfirm you re-used the sand? It's likely that as that sandbed settled, it was releasing ammonia into the tank. Were you testing the tank for it during the 4 weeks you had it? How deep is the sandbed? if it's very shallow (e.g. you can see the glass on the bottom) then this theory...

unfortunately the frag i got from you did not survive sandy.

hmmm...i'm interested but i need to check with the other half. will send you a pm.

if it were me i'd add the least aggressive fish first. If only because this hobby is expensive enough and to have a tank with no "fish" movement may make your friends/family think you are nuts. lol.

Welcome! My thoughts here are that the fish are impacted by something environmental and not anything to do with the fish animosity themselves. Just to be clear - you purchased a pre-owned tank that had live rock and live sand for years and are using it currently? or is this a bare bottom...

welcome!!!!

judeo - what are the dimensions?

Bob - is this the place to ask questions or will there be a separate thread for that?

sps...red table planet...red montipora. i've seen red gonipora but i believe that coral is hard to keep. also some strains of sun coral that may be red...but those are non photosynthetic.

nice deal - for the ease of searching for others - may i edit the title to include the location ..cherry hill?

vermitid...they are white because they are in the shadow like that. They gain the dark color when they are in the light. At first i was going to guess spirobid but those are vermitid. pita those things if you ask me. One or two quickly become a lot if you feed heavily. aiptasia are just...

Light is not a big deal. People have shut down their lights in order to control nuisance algae and the corals are fine. It's not uncommon to get multiple cloudy (rainy) days in a row on the reefs in the wild. btw the reason nerites climb out of the tank is because they are tidal snails. So...

late to the thread bax - but things look great. That arm did looks like a worm I admit lol.

long long time no posts...but i just wanted to report that there is one last captive bred clownfish in the hawkeye household. I thought he was lost with hurricane sandy but apparently was hiding in some live rock in my sump. I cannot move the juvi back to the main display as it was obviously...

bumping this thread for visibility to those who are new and haven't had a chance to post here. Don't be shy! :)