somewherebeyondthesea

Haha! Welcome to the Salt Side! I would start reading here : http://www.advancedaquarist.com/sort/beginner I continue to pull info from here as well as other forums. You are on the right track! I'd be happy to help you with any other questions.

I agree with hooper, my frogspawn has been doing both! There was a guy in B.C. who had one so big that every once in a while it would collapse on itself in many pieces!

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I would try twin spot goby, they sift sand but only a little :-) Also the danger of having too thick of sand is that as detritus and organic material make its way down you can get pockets of hydrogen sulphide, or H2S, it is extremely poisonous and would crash a tank within a day or two. I would argue max 2 inches (or 2 finger rule) of sand to be on the safe side.

I use two ecoxotic bars on my fluval and they grow sps and sps no problem :-)

Awesome! Thanks for the link!

I have a small 12 Gallon Fluval Edge and I've had lots of fun with creating a small tank. I would recogmend: Zoos (they come in many colors) Ricordias (like the garden one shown above) Sexy Shrimp Porcelain Crab Pom Pom Crab Twin spot goby Yellow clown goby Barnical blennys Green Star Polyps Acans Mushrooms(fuzzy ones too!) Torch Coral I have lots more but i would need to know what you had for current/water flow :-) If you wanted a really cool example AI in Edmonton has an awesome nano