Bob Ipema

I am in agreement with the other posters. Get rid of it NOW. It may look nice now, but when your tank is full of them you will wish you had tossed it. I watch them like a hawk because I have seen tanks that were over run with the beggars. :grrrrr:

I have a 150 and a 300 on my 33 gallon. the impeller actually stops rotating and I am finding nothing in the magnet\impeller. the magnet seems to "stick" when you try and put it back in the "slot" and has no free movement. quite possibly sand... will just have to clean it more often. That is the same problem I had when I ran Aquaclears in salt water. I had to keep buying new impellers. I gave up and switched to Fluvals. I heve never had a problem since. :boxer:

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I am 64 years old and from Calgary. I have been involved with fish most of my life. In the late fifties I was very involved in the Calgary Aquarium Society. My current interests are my 75 gallon reef tank, and my 33 gallon cube. I grow Zoanthids, and have been known to sell frags. :bow:

I found out a long time ago that waiting for a long time is the only safe way to start a reef tank. By that I mean six months before adding any livestock. I have also found that people will not listen, and suffer the consequences. The additives on the market to speed the cycle are just crap. The addition of an anemone to a young tank like that is usually a recipe for disaster. Most people would say to wait at least a year before attempting to add an anemone. I have gone through it all, and lost a lot of expensive fish before I learned my lesson. :bang1:

Here is a picture of my newest tank. It is a 75 gallon reef tank.