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  1. General Reef Discussion
    I recently had to move my entire setup into a new 40 gal breeder because of tank leakage. I moved everything very quickly and my water levels are fine, everything seems to be as if nothing happened. Problem is that I have a bunch of leftover food on the sand and I only have a few nassarius...
  2. General Reef Discussion
    Ok so I have a porc puffer, Niger trigger, and a sand shifting goby, all of them are an inch to under an inch. I plan on getting a humu humu trigger and maybe a clown trigger. I understand these fish are very messy eaters, is there any kind o clean up crew other then myself that I can have. From...
  3. General Reef Discussion
    I have a 180gallon system with a wet/dry and coralife 220 protein skimmer. This is my first saltwater/reef tank. I started out with my sand bed adding about 240 Lbs of fine Bermuda sand (forget the brand name, maybe araglive or something) and 5 Lbs of Live sand. When that settled I added my 160...
  4. General Reef Discussion
    Salarias fasciatus This little guy rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Picked him up two days ago. And holey moley. he is cleaning house! i thought that snails and hermits were good, but geez, this little guy deserves an award for how much he can eat. Side note- got the salinity back up to where it...
  5. Northeast Florida Marine Aquarium Society
    New to the whole reef tank thing. I have a few fish now that I am feeding regularly but should I be putting any other supplements in the tank? I have a few small groups of Xenia and a few of what look to be Mushrooms but that is it for my corals right now but I don't want them to die. Any...
  6. Palmetto Marine Aquarium Club
    I have been experiencing some death in my cleanup crew that I can not explain. My tank specs are clean but I lose around a crab a week. The crabs in question are blue and red legs from my cleanup crew. I have a juvenile antenatta lionfish but I don't think it's him. About once a week I notice a...
  7. General Reef Discussion
    Well its that time of the year, to stock up on the clean up crew, but this year im thinking, do i need to? so im thinking maybe i should just skip it...i have a few snails and crabs left and my cleaner is still kickin', but do i really need 50 hermits? :funny: do they even make a difference? the...
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