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everyone's tap water is different. That being said I've never seen good enough water quality out of a faucet to put in my tank but I am sure those places exist. Probably somewhere in Southeast Wisconsin.

good news! throw some pics up

they're filter feeders? The site said they need to be target fed multiple times per day. That's the only reason I wouldn't get one, I'm not home enough for that.

I've had all of the above- and my clowns have never hosted. don't get your hopes up.

I'd take whore island over Canada edit: On further thought I would take whore island over most places. Oh and Aaron- welcome aboard.

This happened to my chaeto when my bioload was small also.

Chichi nailed it

On our older tank we had small eyes that we screwed dircectly into the plaster and used them as guides for zip ties. You can make you wiring follow and path you want to hide behind stand legs, etc. a pack of zip ties and the eyes were all of $4

Ok well you're definitely low on Live rock- you should have at least 50#. I doubt your clown died because of flow unless its like a vortex in there. I would recommend a couple smaller powerheads over one large one. One reason is you get less dead spots. Second being if a powerhead dies when you...

I just had a ball of cheato in my sump wedged in between two baffles. The water had to go through it. I guess it depends on what you want for macro algae. Bare bottom for the win. So much easier to keep clean

Definitely doesnt look gone to me- can you get a better pic of the base? When mine sprout new leathers I guess they could be called blister like

I tossed a table shrimp in there forever, like literally let it rot. Every cycle is different there is no set levels. Don't do anything until you read 0 ammonia and nitrites with anything for a nitrate reading. At this point your tank is cycled and all of your bacteria are in check. This is when...

It certainly sucks with the experience, but why spend a lot of money on something people have had known problems with?? I'm not that familiar with them, is there something extremely special about that specific one?

I had 4 that quickly dropped to 3, then two weeks later down to 1 over a 2 day period. I haven't seen that 1 in a few days either so I don't have high hopes.

what are you using for flow? Have you calculated your changeover rate? a couple years ago I battled algae until I realized how light on flow I was.

welcome aboard, I agree with ditching bioballs but otherwise sounds like a good plan. The filter floss will need to be changed rather frequently just FYI. Do you have any plans for a cover? You don't want something too tight fitting that impedes gas exchange at the surface. As far as lights go...

I swear the little guys can smell fear. I put my hand in there and they are nice as pie. My wife goes in and she gets attacked like she's made of mysis. We both take our rings off, only thing we can think of is the size difference- it freaks her out too, we tried the full sleeve gloves but they...

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Ordered 160# of sand (free shipping FTW), a couple more powerheads, and some new bits and pieces for new return nozzles tonight. I painted the back with an acrylic latex, rolled right on seems good so far.

Hey I have a question for you- I see you have sand in your qt tank- do you leave it setup all the time and if so what do you do with it? I have a bare bottom qt that we throw some water in but just curios if you have a creative use for it