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:welcome to nanotank! From your description it sounds like the endcap is not making a good connection. Where does the sizzling sound sound like its coming from? If the sound is near the bulb then you just need to replace the endcap which is easier to replace.

flsandwoman, you are talking about a surface skimmer. I have to agree they are necessary in a nanocube to keep the surface clean. cristhian is talking about a protien skimmer, here is a link to the one he's talking about: http://nanotuners.nanocustoms.com/nanot ... cts_id=150 .

I think you mean Anthony Calfo and he is definately trustworthy.

Remember to clean your sponge a minimum of once a week and it will be fine to leave in there. If your filter came with the ammonia removeing resin (its usually white) take it out, it is for freshwater use only. Other than that you can use the carbon and sponge that comes with your filter or...

I can't wait to see where these tanks end up going. With all of the secrecy I think he has a TOTM plan gong here.

Yeah, I noticed alot of his recommendations differ from what all of us have been saying/taught. Thats part of the reason I posted the link just to give all of us some new insight into refugiums.

:welcome to nanotank. I would take the LR and scrfub it with a stiff brush until it looks clean in some of the water it is in now, then place it in a container with a heater and airstone with new saltwater that is in a dark place and let it run for a few weeks/ Making sure to top-off the...

HTH= hope this helps

I like to think of Chemipure as a super carbon. It helps absorb polutants in our tanks making them a better habitat for our fish and corals.

Plain aragonite will be fine and since it is "dead" there can be no die-off to cause a cycle. You may want to rinse it in some old tankwater first to get rid of dust and impurities before adding it to the tank.

:welcome to nanotank! Add your LS to the new tank with some water mixed to the same specific gravity, pH, and temperature of the 7.5, then move your LR and aquascape it, after the dust settles move the rest of the livestock over. If you move any of your exsisting sandbed move only the very...

A powerhead is a small pump that is designed to be put in your tank to provide more water circulation, here is one as an example: http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_pow ... sp?CartId= . You don'r really need a filter but one can be substituted for the powerhead if you had one laying around...

A filter is a good place to hide a bag of carbon and some people also like to use a filter pad to remove particulate matter from their tanks but if you do this you need to clean it once or twice a week. The addition of LR rubble adds to your tanks biological filtering capacity.

I found quite a bit of interesting refugium information here: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... did=462212 . I was suprised by some of the recommendations.

You can get by without LS since any sand you place in the tank will eventually become live, it can be seeded from a tiny bit of LS from a trusted tank to help get it kickstarted. The heater is glass, I also have one of them in one of my nanocubes and they work well. Skip

Target feed it with a few drops once or twice a week until you get several corals in the tank then you may just want to turn the filters off and give the tank a general feeding. The biggest thing now is to make sure you don't overfeed the tank since this can help algae blooms grow. HTH, Skip

You only need about a cup or so of sand to seed the new sandbed, you want to harvest this from the top 1/2" or so of your current sandbed. The stuff deeper down will cause a cycle plus most of the good stuff is near the surface anyway. Good luck with the "remodeling", Skip

Here is a link to a powerhead that would work well in the application that Sugar described: http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem. ... uct=MZ3151 and here is a link to the Tunze pump: http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merchant ... unze_pumps . These are very small if you check the dimensions so...

I would feed something like cyclopeeze or zooplex, polyps are not real phyto eaters IME. Good luck, Skip

I agree if you are talking about bagged live sand, if you are talking about the real live sand that has inverts and all in it then you may trigger a small cycle. In either case I wouldn't add any more than enough to barely cover the exsisting sandbed at once (<1/4") if that much. JMO, Skip