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ammonia and nitrite should be 0. Nitrate less than 20 and falling... towards the end of the cycle. I recommend 5-6 nassarius snails for the sandbed, then some algae grazers for your glass and rocks ie ceriths, trochus etc..., half dozen blue hermits that's a good start. Can you gather...

I would definitely leave the lights off while cycling, and just use them when tinkering in the tank. I had mine on at first, and then cyano hit me like a brown carpet basically overnight. Nitrates were too high to add clean up crew so I had to tough it out. Frag your smaller chunks of LR...

So far the doubled flow is having a huge effect. I've never seen such extension in my polyps!!! My sand is much cleaner too as smaller particles stay suspended. My toadstool hasn't opened yet, but it has a mind of its own so I'm not gonna worry yet. My candy canes are in heaven, and my...

I set up the maxijet 1200 under my rocks today, and angled it so that it sprays back toward the wall of the fuge and into my rocks to disperse the flow. My corals, LOVE it, I have a cabbage and a toadstool that were being a bit fussy, so we will see if they like the new flow. My clowns don't...

Nice looking setup! Ive got the NC24 too. Nice looking rock, but you may wish to have a terraced effect rather than a tower. When you start getting coral frags on big chunks of LR you will know what I mean. You will change a your rock around a alot before you find a config that works for...

Thanks for the advice. This should not affect my fish right? I have a 2 false percs and a firefish. These won't be buffeted by the current too much should they?

Hey, I have an NC24, and have a question about the flow. When I bought the tank, I got an extra heater and an extra PH maxi-jet 1200, due to my fear of one of them crap out on Christmas Eve and not being able to get a replacement. I recently got some hard to care for corals and want to...

All that even with blurry pics. My camera seems to have problems when the lights are on getting a sharp focus, and the pics look great on the 1.5"screen untill they are blown up. Thanks for the advice, very thorough. I like to get my stuff from local reefers in the area rather than LFS or...

Aren't aiptasia white, hence Glass anemone? Could be for all i know.

Well here is my high tech solution to the mushroom dilemma. I cut an onion bag to get the mesh. I hope it works! Looks like hell though.

Hey, I just got a bunch of frags from an aquaintance, and I would like to know if anyone knows what they are, or has any tips for care. It was 40 bucks for the lot, from a fellow whose tank is so overgrown he needed to frag them to make room. So please excuse my ignorance, but it was too...

Ok, so the zip tie didn't work. It actually pushed the plastic out through the side of its body. It was really weird. It got really limp and basically "poured" itself off the rock in a pulpy mass on the sand. I though it was dead but left it in the tank with the lights on. Amazingly, it has...

My Nassarious snails eat whatever is in the sand, Ceriths, turbos and Astrea what is on the glass and the rocks. A good combo. Diatoms are nothing.... wait till you get the hair algae!

Modular Surface Skimmer for Nano Cubes http://www.petsolutions.com/Modular+Sur ... -1-C-.aspx Get this thing!!! It really helps and uses water pressure to attach. Works great in my NC and keeps my surface cyrstal clean. Check for phosphates. I've got a brown algae issue, so I have...

When you say super glue gel, what brand and how do you keep it from fouling your water? I got his great epoxy from Marine land that works great for stony corals but this guys really threw me for a loop. He was soooo bloody stubborn. He kept getting sucked under my rocks. He hadn't gotten...

Hey, I got this amazing mushroom the other day from a friend and It was attached to nothing. After chasing this boody thing around my tank, and three times having to fetch it from under my rock. (a horrible task that stressed the hell out of my fish) I could not get it to stick to...

Thanks for the advice. Both of these guys are juvenile, from the same tank at the LFS, barely more than an inch long. they seem to be doing much better today. not being pushed around by the current, they ate and are wary of me again. This is a good sign.

The last pic is where I found him when I thought he was dead. Why would he let a Nassarius snail get that close?

OMG I just went to check on my percs and one was missing!!! I searched high and low and was about ot start removing rocks, when I checked the chambers in the back of my cube. Sure enough he was in there, chamber 1! What the hell! I'm gonna have to babysit these guys all night! If he...

Ok, I nearly had a temperature crisis today. I've had a couple of false percs now for a day or two. I am not too clear on their behavior patterns yet, but they seemed fine and were eating... I came home today from work at around 11pm. I have the lights set to turn off at 9pm. It was a...