Leonard

I have a bunch of orange yuma ricordia if I can get them off the rock. I don't have any Acans but would like to -and I like the color of yours.

still at SWFantaseas friday evening

Ok, I just answered my own 2nd question I found the arrow under forum jump.

I am not sure how to ask, but why is this thread not staying on the new posts section and how do you get to other threads like this one on this site? I just searched for Garf and ended up here but don't know how to navigate.

I am not sure what the Garf method is but I have a heavy bioload with plentiful feeding in my 65 gal tank -mostly large polyp stony and soft coral. For months my small skimmer wasn't working ( I am not much of a mechanical tinkerer) I am surprised at how healthy my tank is. I have adjusted the skimmer more regularly but it still just collects skum slowly. ( I hate it when the slight adjustment causes fast fill up and overflow). Anyway because of my biologic tinkering tendencies I have several biologic filtration experiments connected to my system. I am not promoting what I have done I just did it and would change some things next time but is interesting how well my system seems to run. I have a 15 gallon above tank refusium with off brand miracle mud and sand 1.5" bed with macro algae. My show tank has a 2" coral sand bed with light to medium water flow. Then here's the potentially embarrassing part, my sump has a plenum/aragonite bed under all of the equipment. The equipment is sitting on a raised egg crate platform. I have a korallia pump circulating the water in the sump to keep detritus moving. I usually lay low on this forum and try to glean knowledge from others. I do like to hear of other peoples experimentation and experiences.

could we see a picture of the outer dimensions of your aquarium also? Pentagon?

I had a couple of green clown gobies at separate times that just seemed to vanish also. Later I tried again when I had a larger tank with some sps corals and bright lighting. That little guy responded very well and was always a fun show hanging out on the stony corals. The latest one had also been added to a full tank of fish and fit right in.

I am glad I kept my 65 gal soft coral tank when I was downsizing during the past year of financial trouble. I always enjoy seeing the subtle changes in the different corals and wondering why one is shriveled up a bit while others are puffed up and happy etc. My tank seems very happy overall and that makes me feel good. I enjoy reading about everyone's reef experiences on this site.

Rose City Aquarium. It is a cool looking creature too-velvet black with neon blue stripes.

I have a 20ish gallon above tank refusium with a sand bed and caulerpa. It empties into a 60 gallon heavy bioload tank. I will post pictures when I re-figure out how to get back on photobucket. Anyway, my refusium has tons of copepods, amphipods, various worms and snails etc. I have always been concerned about the number of red/rust colored flat worms that I get. I never see them in my show tank due to several types of wrasses I think. I was going to treat with flatworm exit as I have done before, but was hesitant as I noticed shriveled up bristle worms last time I used it ( I followed a hobbyists advice and used a heavier dose to kill them all). So I was afraid about killing more than flat worms. I recently heard about the nudibranch that was known to eat flatworms so I purchased one at a local Portland store. He/she immediately moved along the front glass slurping up flatworms. I was curious to see the rate of consumption to see if it would run out of food or if it needed something more than the particular type of flatworm in my system. It has been a week and the nudibranch is quite fat there are still plenty of flatworms for food. It has to work for them throughout the caulerpa. It seems to stop eating and rest periodically whether light cycle or dark. I thought this info might be interesting

I was wondering about enclosing the sump to cut down on evaporation- any ideas?

microbubbles does your microbubble problem lead to extra salt splash?

you probably already know about drilling a small pressure release air hole at a higher water level line on your return.

The tank dimensions are 30" long 20"tall and 18" deep. The stand is 32" tall canopy 12" Tall four holes drilled in upper back of tank are plumbed for overflow and return The tank has no livestock included. located in NE Portland

one favorite I like the coloring and curiosity of the Twin spot Hogfish