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Yes! Post up a couple pics and your first impressions if you would please. I've been intending to buy replacement T-5s from them but my old units haven't crapped out yet.

I'm not sure what those red bumps are, I've got what looks like same thing in a couple tanks. They have never really grown shrunk or done anything else. I'd black that tank out for a week or so to help take care of that GHA. It's easier to deal with now rather than later, trust me.

I do know of a couple people on Reef Central using them in non photosynthetic coral tanks. These tanks are heavily fed, to the point of being cesspools. The trouble is the water needs to be in pristine condition to keep the animals alive. So some are trying mussels, clams, scallops to help use up the excess nutrients in the water. Most seem to be buying the mussels and clams from people in the aquarium trade, but a few are trying grocery store ones. One of the drawbacks is finding out where the clams or mussels have come from, ones that come from the north Atlantic or Pacific are not going to survive in the temperatures that reef tanks are kept at. Every time I see live mussels at the grocery store I ask if they know where they came from, there has not been a satisfactory enough response yet for me to risk my tanks. I have some hitch hiker clams in my azoo tank, when I first noticed them they were only a few millimeters across, in two years they have grown to almost an inch. That is a lot of words to say it can and cannot be done. Do some more research and see what you come up with. It should be possible.

More important. Did you kill the $#@% before he ate all you zoos?

An awesome start on a pond and now you throw this at us!! What next? An intervention. Tank looks like it's off to a good start. Just guessing but you must be about ready to start stocking it. What is on your must have livestock list? I started stocking a tank with the same dimensions in January, I'm pretty much done for fish. Now for the good part the coral, and clams.

The learning curve truly does suck. Keep asking questions, next time it might be a critter in trouble and you may find a quick cure!!

+1 Looks like a nice frag to me.

A picture may help out also.

I had a huge colony that did that. It took a while but I finally caught my emerald crab eating them, but not until he'd destroyed about 90 heads. The crab didn't survive. You don't have too much flow, my survivors are in a 33 with about 2500 gph turnover. When you feed your fish try turning off the flow, and leave it off for 15 minutes or so. Then check and see if you are getting any tentacle extension. If you do feed them some cyclopeeze, or mysis, mine also like NLS fry formula. Even if you don't get extensionw hile the pumps are off try setting some very small food on the mouth and watch to see if it is eaten. I feed mine all the time, but it is in an azoo tank I'm working on the critters in there like to eat continuously. How long have you had it? Have you checked it for pests, bugs, worms, nudi's? I'm not sure what their pests are but that could also be the problem. Keep us posted on the progress, maybe someone can help. Good luck.

Stop in at the local health unit and pick up a test kit. You fill it up return it and they send it away and have it analyzed. I pretty sure mineral content is included in the tests.

Personally I'd go with 2 K3's in a tank that size. I like to have 60+ times turnover. I have two K3's and a k nano, in a 33gal. It isn't too much, still lots of crap to turkey baste off of the rocks. The bad thing about that much flow is your sand likes to wander around.

I like your rock. I've never seen a marine tank planted with freshy plants. :shock: :shock: JK. Looks like your off to a good start. How much flow do you have in the tank?

That one may be a bit flimsy. If you could bury it the sides would be fine. I use a similar one of about 100l for mixing saltwater change water, and every time I fill it it sags a bit worse. One of these days I'm afraid the wife is going to be really mad. Maybe look around at farm supply stores and find a water trough for animals. They are made to hold up under the strain and work well. I've used them lots for ponds.

I do use floss and carbon in the AC. I change the floss every 3-4 days. I also use ro/di and do water changes of 2.5 gals, once a week(or when I get around to it).

I've got a 20 gal that has been running for 30 months. The equipment list is 20 gal tank, heater, aquaclear 110, 48 watts t5ho, around 10 pounds of LR. For nutrient export I use macroalgae, and filter floss. The only thing in the aquaclear is a bunch of LR rubble and the heater. I have had plans to light the AC and put the macro in it, but it hasn't been done yet. The light on this tank is just borderline adequate for the animals in the tank. The original plan was to get it rolling with the t5 and then move upto leds, I havent' done it yet but still intend to. Corals in the tank include mushrooms, ricordea, paly's, zoa,s, a couple of tiny SPS frags about 2 inches under the light. There is 1 maroon clown, 1 peppermint shrimp, 6 snails, 6 hermits, 1 porcelain crab. This tank has given me the least trouble of the 4 I have. The small hob skimmers generally aren't worth their weight in turds. The best small skimmer I've used is a Tunze 9002. I've heard good things about the sapphire nano skimmer. Do tons of research and go really slow on your build, and it will work out well.

Holy crap!! Yeah, that was the most intelligent thing I could come up with. I would like to see the filtration system that deals with that bioload.

RO water should be a pH 7. Neutral.

Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but wouldn't it be easier to buffer your water to whatever pH you need it at? If it's not that simple would you please explain why not to me? Always good to learn something new. My water is REALLY hard here in saskatoon so buffering it would entail lots of "work" on a weekly basis where as just running pressurized co2 would keep it at a constant ph where the shrimp would survive and thrive. Only been in this hobby for about a year so I might be going at this the wrong way... Ahh, makes sense to me now. Thanks for the explanation. Good luck with your shrimp, always good to see people in this hobby taking on a challenge. :thumbs:

Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but wouldn't it be easier to buffer your water to whatever pH you need it at? If it's not that simple would you please explain why not to me? Always good to learn something new.

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In my kids 19 gal there is about 10 lbs of rock, lighting is a 24" T5HO, filtration is an aquaclear 110 with filter floss and LR rubble in it. There is a ball of macro algae in the main tank. I had a small skimmer in it too but it wasn't worth the hassle and it's been removed. Stocked with zoa's and shrooms, a couple of hermits, a few snails, one maroon clown(who is going to need a new home soon) The tank is 20" deep so the light isn't quite enough, been toying with going MH or LED. So far a DIY LED setup is winning out. There are no other powerheads in the tank the AC moves about 500 gal/hour and that seems to be working out well in this tank. This setup began life in a 5 gal, little mermaid tank so it should work out for a 10 gal. The shrimp will be fine, they are one of the most commented on critters in my other display tanks. Good Luck

Ask him to see his license. If he does have one it should say on it who issued it then you can contact the appropriate people. Personally I think it's probably a bunch of crap though, never heard of such a thing.

http://www.wormcomposting.ca/how-to/make-a-worm-bin/ http://www.wormcomposting.ca/getting-started/ It really is as easy as the articles make it sound. I was finding new cocoons within a couple weeks of starting my bins and the worm population just keeps on growing. I'd suggest red worms for feeding the smaller fish. That being said you will soon be finding all sizes of worms in your bin. I've never noticed odors coming from my bins, they are in the house for the winter. The only pests I've noticed are fruit flies and they are pretty easily dealt with using fruit fly traps. The bin will take about 5 minutes to make. I'd start with a pound of worms and let them multiply out from there. If you need more links let me know and I'll post some. I wish I could help you out with stock, but I don't have enough yet, I didn't start out with enough for my bins and the populations are still growing. Frank on this board may be able to help you out. His website is http://rockywormranch.ca/ Go for it!!!!

Sweet lets see some pictures after you get it setup and running. I don't suppose you have access to a lightmeter, it would be cool to get some readings of the output from your new setup.

I think one of those small led arrays would be worth trying on a fowlr type tank. The color control you have with them would be amazing and a couple thousand small emitters is only going to cost you a few bucks. Don't like the color rip it apart and put in a new combination of colors. These things are going to be amazing in the future with the amount of research and development that is going on. I've been doing so much research on them I talked myself right out of it for my 110, my kids ordered me a new 8 bulb t-5 fixture this morning. Now they need to get a job to pay for it. The little darlings used my CC.