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I also have a sump (smaller) for sale or trade. jeff

thanks, I might take you up on that once the new tank arrives. jeff

The stand was custom built for the tank. It's narrow but strong and not particle board. Hence the narrow sump, which measures: 16wx10dx26w. I did have to cut a hole in the side of the stand to slide the sump in. The light is a solarmax HO. There are two Aqueon glass lids. I'd be happy to leave the live sand in the tank but the rock and the fish are going into the new tank. I'm in inner SE Portland Together: $75 I'm also selling the sump for $100. It's three months old.

Can someone tell me the best (and perhaps less expensive) source for live sand either at a store in the Portland area or online? thanks, jeff

Mine will eat nutramar ova all day if I could get it to him. The turkey baster is hit and miss. Mostly I stick my hand in and put it close to him. Then it's a kind of race between the mandarin and the cleaner shrimp. What's interesting is the mandarin shares a hole with a royal gramma (that tried to push him out the first day but then accepted him), and the royal gramma will actually try to keep the cleaner shrimp away, to the extent that yesterday he bit off a portion of the shrimp's antenna. I've got a bucket of copepods that I'm cultivating, and I'm hoping to put a big portion of them in the main tank. it's a mystery to me why there are so few in there to begin.

We bought a banggai cardinal over the weekend, and I'm wondering whether it was a mistake. It's doing fine in the QT, eating ralph's reef food and cyclopeez. my concern, however, is putting it in the DT, a 55-gallon reef tank ( 75 lbs live rock) that houses not that many fish but it does have a Mandarin. I'm trying to cultivate more copepods because even though it's a pretty well established reef tank, for some reason it's never had a huge amount of copepods. The mandarin is definitely thinner than it should be, although I'm supplementing his diet with nutramar ova which he eats if the cleaner shrimp don't steal it first. Anyway, while the ralph's and cyclopeez will be the cardinal's main source of food, from what I've read they're also serious copepod eaters. we've spent so much time and energy keeping the mandarin alive, I'm concerned the the faster moving cardinal will compete with the mandarin for the copepods and win. Am I wrong? thanks for any advice, jeff

I purchased this shrimp goby a week or so ago. it's in quarantine. all of the gobies in the store had these extended eyes. Were all victim of popeye or is that normal for the species? If it it is popeye, can anyone recommend a cure. I'm sorting through a bunch of suggestions, and it's hard to discern which might be the best. thanks for any help, jeff