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right then... Ive had a look at these items and its a pretty straightforward system but with specific parameters of operation.....

First of all, an auto top off system has to run with the lights...

end of first day and have found a specific tailored diet that the rest of the fish leave alone, and both the moorish and the achilles eat, the achilles out competes the idol for this though, but the...

firstly, most of the species i keep are near impossible to keep and are on specialist diets, so the moorish idol is again something im ready for.... If you dont try then youll never know will you? ...

youre rock is now uncured...... So essentially youll need to cure it, which is basically cycling the rock, then your tank....

If youre going to do this youll need a damn good protein skimmer, and...

Not posted in a good while, simply because ive been busy...

After 6 weeks of trying to order one, when it arrived, 3 weeks of quarrantine and arduous and sucessfull weaned vitamin dosed frozen...

A 20g shouldnt cost all that much to setup at all as its really just a nano setup.. Heres my list of what you should look at.... Sorry its in british currency..

Lighting. Hob halide or led .... ...

a diary of all tests done on a weekly basis, any water changes, added fish, equipment changes, anything so essentially if there is a problem in the future, youve got a reference to find out the root...

About 6 or so months I aquired (or rather rescued) a small juvvy haddons carpet anemone from a corner of my local Dealers tank. He was small, mottled brown color and not that healthy but sticky.
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If its turned white, that means that they've released all gametes and nutrients into the water column, which is bad in large amounts.

Id remove all dead matter asap, water change and this should...

right then. After much deliberation, ive gone with a deltec calcium reactor, and kalkwasser stirrer. Ive been told that other cr's are just as good, but if it says deltec, im sold!!!

Anyways,...

answer q1. Could be but doesnt look like it. Better pic needed detailing tentacles..

Q2. Could well be a starfish, or it could be spagetti worms, but they look a bot big for that. If it is a...

its not difficult, simply use an external pump to pump the water from the bucket to the tank. If the pump wont fit into the bucket (mine don't) use a length of an appropriate size pipe for the...

dos...

Research, read and do your homework.
A 29g for an anemone will be dodgy. Clowns, soft corals, shrimps will be fine, but keep it small... Plan and stick to it.
Buy the best equipment...

The amount of pump pressure for that amount of head youll need an average of 2200 l/ph.

Siphoning through a 5mm airline simply wont work as that amount of pressure will simply blow the airline...

My tank is a heavily stocked ( or will be....) lps reef with a good amount of livestock.

Dont really want to run a calcium reactor and dosing supplements is unstable in my opinion.

So if I...

the brightwell aquatics kalk mix that im looking at contains magnesium, strontium and calcium which are the three things that I dose weekly so the kalk dosing system will not actually cost me...

if you use kalkwasser, would you dose additional calcium & magnesium or will the kalk mix be enough to provide enough mg and ca?

cheers. We do get brightwell aquatic supps as i do use them. Ive been using their phytogreens and have now colonial tunicates growing!!!

Kalk it is then.. It will be significantly cheaper as...

thinking of running a kalkwasser topoff system through the night in place of my normal r/o topoff system, but also was looking at a calcium reactor.

Now the kalk setup would be significantly...

as some of you know, with my topoff system being topped off with untreated tapwater instead of r/o.....anyways, the phosphates have gone through the roof and measured at 2.2 mg/l and over.

Since...

cheers dave, so well established live rock (got that), angelfish rations (feed that) and live food (dont feed that...) suppose ill start getting hold of a supply of good suppliers of live food...

I know everybodies going to say "oooohhhh" or "Aaaahh" followed by "itll die" but for those of you who know the species i keep will already have said this....

Anyways. Am getting one alongside my...

hard to say on this one, as if you feed well any fish or invert will simply ignore the aptasia.

Really, the only guarantee of getting rid of aptasia via predatoey means is getting a sea slub or...

neither would be a good choice for the size youve got, the flame and hawk are both territorial, moderately fragile and need at least 30g of space..

Personally, id leave your tank as it is and...

have had a chili finger coral for a while now, and hes deteriorating somewhat.

Have moved him to a better flow and higher up and target feeding, so anybody think that itll improve with a bit of...