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Alright, update time! I just got home, the tank looks horrible imo. Algae is everywhere but mainly over the glass which is a bad appearance. My Mandarin is alive and I can see one of my clowns, so thats 2 of 3 accounted for. I lost 1 clam, some sps and some other corals as well. Happened...

IVe had one in my 60g since my tank was 2 months old. He is doing great :) I dont know if you need to supplement feeding, but the only way is to put food underneath him like suggested. I actually flick mine off the glass all the time, so dont worry, he wont get hurt.

I like that footage :) Pretty cool.

Firefish get along with everything lol.

Im hoping you have some strong lights? a nem sitting that high might not be getting the light he needs. Mine generally hide beneath rocks and open up out into the light. But putting flow on him will make him move

Thats why clowns are dam violent as well... mine nips at me when i put my hand in.. sometimes haha. And beat up my second mandarin fish.

There are a few ways you can add mediea, ill clear up what i wrote :) You can get what are called reactors, Im fairly sure there are ones that will hang on the back of your tank and you can use those to run your media and adjust the flow as you see fit. Wont be very pretty though. Another...

Wait, I think sabae anemones dont pair up as well as other anemones with clowns. They may not even be interested, mine took 3 weeks before they hosted mine.

Some of them do eat frozen food, but they need to feed all the time so feeding would have to be 2-3 times a day if you find one on frozen. Other than that, like said, 2 mandarins would need to be male and female and even then they will fight it out for a while. 1 Year plus is recommended but...

I was going to say 2 600's would be better, or three 425's depending on where you want them placed.

Well, it is the best choice for a skimmer. I would never be adding a canister filter. If you wanted to add media to your tank you can do it a few ways, one way is to get a filter sock or even a stocking and add media that way. Another is to get a specific reactor for each type of media which...

See, I have a personal local friend who had mp40's and said he had to fix the wet end 4 times since he had it, so it puts me off them and I had my heart set on it. And I am now put off of the tunze pumps as well, so where to go?

That throws an interesting wedge in my ideas. So, everyone tells me that the vortechs are horrible pumps in the long run, unless someone here has one running and can tell me otherwise, and the tunze pumps give much less flow although do not break down readily in comparison.

I would also say dont get a cannister filter. That is more of a fresh water thing and something that can cause issues in our tanks unless properly cleaned as they hold a lot of bad bacteria. Ryan is very right in what he wrote.

I would not go for the mp40, just personally, everything I have heard is bad, the wet end has plastic rings and a ceramic ring and the rings wear out inside due to how they are powered. The other part is that they are really noisy. I would be looking at tunze pumps instead, quieter, more...

Yea, I dont have any tank sitter, no one i know knows anything! And thanks everyone. Ive got faith that my fish are feeding fine, but im more worried that I lose something, or my nem has gone nuclear. Well, we shall see soon and there could either be a sad update or major relief.

Well, ive been away since the 28th of june. I have my uncle coming to top up fresh water, but he cant come often so my sump is disconnected. Luckily I dont have a heavy bio load but ive been fighting some algae and winning. Im hoping things arent terrible when i get back and that all my fish...

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Tank looks great :) good to see a healthy tanks!

My suggestion would be, forget the UV and create a healthy tank. When a fish does get ich, the suggestion is to take him out, put him in a QT and treat them with copper. But everyone here has made a simple choice not to do this because in many cases it causes a lot of stress in the fish with...