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You think? Any specific ones that like pc lighting? -Susanne

Very nice frogspawn! What color is your candy cane? Please pm me me with specifics (price etc. so I know if I can afford it! ). I might be able to trade a couple of different zoas (one orange, one with bright green eyes) and I always have xenia and red mushrooms, and a few small GSP frags, though I realize that most people aren't in need of those. -Susanne

I'd sure take you up on that! And we are definitely looking forward to that green ric! Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have to do some studying, since my 20H is mostly softies, except a thriving capricornis, that's been doing amazingly well in that tank considering the lighting! BTW, if anyone knows where to get daisy polyps, please let me know! They seem to be rarer than chicken with teeth around here! And does anyone have a few small frags to sell of any of the above? I'm definitely interested! Colorful zoas would also be great! I bought a few small frags at Seans yesterday, and they seem happy in the tank so far. Opened up right away. Some day I'll have enough light for a few colored sticks! Maybe the LEDs will be affordable in a few decades or so! -Susanne

My 40G w. 20G sump is finally ready for more than the cleaning crew and I am looking for some ideas of what corals to add over time. I'm trying to avoid Xenia, shrooms and GSP in this one, since they like to take over the whole tank and I've never had too much luck keeping them isolated to just one rock in my 20H I have several small zoanthids frags in it, the candy cane I got from Miles and the samll hammer frag that recently has problems (it's doing great again! ). Metal halides (or the new LED lights) are not in the picture in the near future and I'm wondering what else would be happy in this tank. Tank depth is 16 inches and there are no fish in the tank as of yet. I'm hoping to add a small school of chromis soon.

I did try feeding it last night, but it wasn't interested then. -Susanne

Sorry, I was at work and am just now looking at the forum! It looks quite a bit improved, I'm happy to say! Nowhere near as full as it was before, but definitely much better. See attachment!

I have it in a moderate flow area to begin with, so that should be okay, I hope. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks! Will do!

Thank you! I'll keep this thread updated and I'm still hoping it will recover in a few days!

Did you click on the attachment to open it up in a larger window? To me it looks like only a few arms have a chance to recover. The rest looks "popped" or completely gone. I hope you are right, though, and things will look better tomorrow. I've turned one of the lights off and will try feeding it.

Did you have it hotter or colder before? I've read all sorts of theories, some saying a temp of 82-83 is better for corals? Mine is at 80 in the 20H, and it's doing awesome! I'm still fiddling with the 40G to get it to stabilize. I think I need a new heater, because if I leave the fan all night, the temp goes down to 78. At other times the heater comes on even though the thermometer reads 81.

It a tiny frag and was one of our daughter's birthday gifts! :( She'll be very unhappy when she gets home from school! If it doesn't make it, we'll have to find another one (got this one in Portland at Waves). I wonder if Sean has any... Portland is just not in the picture with the current gas prices.

It's not my day today, apparently! I just looked at my tank and discovered a hermit on the small hammer frag, that's been doing really well up till now. The hermit is now in the refugium, but I'm really worried about the little frag. There should be an attachment showing what it looks like now. -Susanne

Thanks for you opinions! Water is clear and I did scrape off some dead sponges and macro algae. It *looks* okay, though not much color left on it, but just has this musty smell to it. I'm going to take some water in to be tested (I don't trust my own tests anymore, since they are several years old. The ammonia dot thingie I put into the tub doesn't show ammonia). I'll contact the seller (who is aware of the shipping dilemma) and will see what develops. -Susanne

Last week I ordered 30lbs of LR from and ebay seller.It was shipped Fedex and for some reason got stuck at pickup for two days (was supposed to leave on Monday morning, but didn't get going until Wednesday). It arrived early Friday, and it's been in a tub with saltwater, a heater, a couple of power heads. It didn't smell all that bad when it arrived (was "fully cured"), but it now has a distinct musty/moldy smell. Is is unusable, or will further curing with frequent water changes take care of the smell? It was sent insured and I could file a claim with Fedex, I guess. -Susanne

Thanks again! We will run an air conditioner in the living room, once it really heats up, but I'm not sure how hot this tank will get. The 20H has been okay with nothing else, but this 40G (with 20G sump) has only been set up for a few months. Nothing much is in it, yet (just got the main live rock today and it's curing in a tub). The tank currently has sand and a few pieces of cured live rock, plus a small cleaning crew in it. And some rubble and macro in the fuge.

Thanks! So, a variable speed fan with a temp sensor isn't going to do it? I also need a fan controller? Obviously I need a lot of help with this! Will *any* 12v converter do, or are there differences? -Susanne

The temperatures are going up here and with all the lights and the refugium light on, temps are going up 4 degrees, unless I run a fan over the sump. Currently I have one going on a timer, but it's not keeping the temp as steady as I'd like. I'm looking at some variable speed fans on ebay, but am not electrically savvy enough to know what kind of power supply I need to wire it into. Help? scratch -Susanne

Okay, I'll have to investigate that, but in the meantime, how do I avoid the huge burst of bubbles after the cleaning? I can make sure the pump itself doesn't have air in it, but what about the air in the return line when I turn the pump back on?

I'm sure I do, but isn't there also air in the return plumbing after the back siphon breaks? -Susanne

How do you avoid it? Every time I clean my return pump and set it back up, I get this huge burst of microbubbles, and it takes quite a while for all the bubbles to disappear again. I also have some bubbles come from the return at other times (not many, but enough to notice). If the pump is completely submerged, I assume it means I have an air leak somewhere in my return? The pump is sitting inside a filter sock, and I don't see many bubbles in the return chamber. Is there an easy way to find out where exactly the problem spot is? -Susanne