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Brent at Trop was telling me that he was getting nice clowns in this week, you might want to check it out. We got our black ice clown from Trop, and our wild caught picasso clowns there. AO gets nice clowns in too, our ORA Picasso clown came from them in 2009.

Your stock list looks fine to me for a 57g. Make sure you build a cover before you buy those firefish! The gobies we had included dracula, yasha, and neon. The dracula and yasha had candy pistol shrimp with them. We did a group of barnacle blennies in our 57 as well.

Most tanks thrive with weekly water changes. There are four major things that I think you would need to be aware of here: 1. oxygenation 2. evaporation 3.temp 4. precipitation These are solved pretty simply. 1. Mix in a bucket with a lid. Keep lid on. (Eliminate evap problem) 2. Keep a...

Definitely clean that filter sock! Most reefers who use filter socks change them periodically, and clean them in between rotations. As George said, the purpose of the sock is to remove detritus that is not disolved in the water, but freely floating. That sock is probably nasty, pick up some...

Using new sand is a good idea. Be prepared for it to take a little while to settle, 12-24 hours. Test the old water before you begin so that you have an idea of what the parameters were. When you remove the old water, you want to syphon it into buckets before you remove livestock or rock...

Congrats on the new clowns, they are very striking together!

Thanks. The joculator is a bit of a jerk, but at least he is a pretty one. We left the 2 yasha gobies and a swiss guard basslet off the list inadvertently.

I would suggest adding an instant cycle product (I like Dr. Tim's) to get your bacteria population up before you add inverts. I would start with snails and hermits, and wait a while before adding more delicate inverts like stars or shrimp, I would suggest around a month. Other than that...

I know very little about calcium reactors and dialing them in. What I do know is that when you set one up for the first time (like we did with our new tank), you need to go through a period where you test Alk every day, at the same time of day, to see what your Alk is doing. We put up a white...

Some acro crabs have color patterns similar to that of their original host coral and can be quite brightly colored, so don't be scared by color alone. Look for crabs with elongated claws with thin tips. They should have smooth shells, without any "hairyness" to them. As Sunny pointed out...

As Mike said, keep in mind that temp is important with these fish. You also need a very secure cover, no holes at all, or the fish will end up on the floor. In my limited experience, blue spots are a lot more active than pearly heads, but the downside is that they also seem to me to be more...

Yes, I have. Unfortunately, there are several corals that are quite tiny, 1/4"-1" in total size. If I try to cut them, I am likely to lose at least some of them. One of them is my sole remaining piece of hitchiker acro, a piece about 1/3". Since I have no idea what the coral actually is, and...

So once again we spent hours in the basement working on the tank yesterday. We did a second round of Revive dips for all of the acros, continued to wage our war on bubble algae, and did some testing and other needed maintenance. The war on AEF continues, we are ahead this week. I did not see...

Very nice! looks like you are getting some great growth and great color!

Checking DD is part of my nightly routine :)

DD has a tanakas up. http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+3&ddid=180061

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I very much doubt the sebae would survive hypo. If you can pull the rock he is on, that is what I would do. I would run hypo and a UV for 10 - 12 weeks. You will also need to remove your inverts. If you had the room, I would say buy a used tank, and set up a QT system, that would always be...