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bare bottom...can't go wrong
yeah, never have had a problem so far with my pepps and I've had them for a while. i got a group of 4 and they keep my tank apta free. I do feed...
are you running a sump? a lot of nutrient issues can be resolved with a thriving refugium picking up those nutrients.
yeah, i would definitely dump your salt substrate.
zero crabs...
rubbermaid totes for sure. Try to use all the water and none of the substrate on that reef tank.
you may want to...
my aversion to hermits is that they will eventually become opportunistic and can very well start bothering my corals...that and I found that I had to...
unfortunately in a zero environment i would recommend not using any live rock/re-purposed rock and go straight to the man made versions of live...
I gave up on hermit crabs and snails coexisting peacefully a long time ago. I can't get them to co-habitate. My hermits constantly killed any of my...
I had an extreme infestation over a year ago, bought 6 pep shrimps, they wiped out the lot of them and have not had a peep of problems since. The...
yeah, i second the advice to put as large of a sump that will fit under your tank. make it a refugium to run and you wont need to worry about any of...
How deep is your sand? You may release a lot of trouble if you disrupt that sand bed. I went bare bottom, wouldn't ever consider going back...
are you running a sump? since going to a 30 gallon sump for my 90 gallon things have been very smooth going for me. also, bare tank/crushed...
now I would like to find some Xenia eating nudibranchs...
Yeah, be very careful with canister filters. they can become a nitrate farm if they aren't maintained regularly. I'd switch to a sump.
Yeah, I wouldn't be concerned about them bothering corals, bothering snails is a different story...
Just make sure that the LR didn't come from a neglected tank. That rock will harbor all kinds of ammonia/phosphates that will leach out in clean...
what are your plans for the sump? if you are planning refugium you don't want a ton of flow going through that.
Very nice tank. The thing is in the big tanks it seems like nothing ever grows because there is so much real estate in that big tank! give it time....
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