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I like it. It would make me nervous to have so much of it hanging over the front edge though.

I am responding to this as a paying member of this club, not as a board member. It does not take a rocket scientist, or even a statistician to see that the traffic and participation on this site has dropped dramatically. Do you really think that this "organic healing" that you speak of is nurtured by publicly insulting the members? By doing this you are a negative force in this forum/site/club.

Kim, for what its worth, the red x in Garrets signature is part of the link to his website I believe. It shows up as a little box with a generic icon in chrome and doesn't show up at all in Firefox, and shows as a black box with a white x inside with a black border in Explorer. I'm pretty sure its just how the different browsers interpret the link.

I would guess digi or stylo. I have a German blue digi and an orange digi that grow very similar. The stylo I have is pink, and another people one that both grow with upward branches like a tree, so I would lean towards a digi of some sort.

Hopefully the sandbed wasn't too old. There can be all kinds of nasties burried under an old sandbed.

Does it have to be clear? I used black. I believe Tat2d still has some left over.

Funny you should mention that Bomber, I did a water change ion my 39 AIO cube the other day and found three small clones from my RBTA's in the fuge section clinging to the chaeto. One was very small, about the size of a pencil eraser but still had about four tentacles, another was twice that size and the third was about three inches across. I'd never seen clones that small before. In the display section the others have rearranged themselves in the tank with one ending up on the side glass. This has all happened since the weather turned. The only difference is that this tank is inside and the temps have remained pretty consistent.

Cyrano is a bacteria, not an algae. If you live in the Willamette valley you will get it periodically. It's just a fact of life. The vinegar can feed it. Actually any carbon source can feed it. That's why when carbon dosing it's necessary to go slowly and when the cyano starts, you back off. I personally have it now and then and I treat my tank a couple of time a test with Chemi-Clean. Knocks it out in 48 hours. Requires a 20% water change immediately following the treatment. Cyanobacteria is airborne, there really is no getting around it unless you live in a bubble. The wild ph swings are probably the root cause of your coral issues. Back of on feeding, check for dead spots in the flow and buy a bottle of Chemi-Clean.

frogspawn 02-08-2014 by rworegon, on Flickr

That's going to be a lot of flow in a cube. Maybe create a whirlpool?

The legs came with the Reefstar. Talk to Kenny, he's great to deal with.

And this is gone. Thanks zmcclinton63 for an easy transaction.

I agree with Chris, the wrasse is more likely to execute the hermit.

So soon I will start an upgrade build for this tank. It will be a 30 gal cube, but in the meantime as I gather the bits, one thing I picked up was a reefstar alpha series nano light from Kenny. I was "busy" watching the Oregon State vs Washington State game and thought I would see what the new light would look like over the Fluval. Took a little doing but I got it to fit. I programmed it so I would no longer have to manually turn the lights on and off every day. If this was going to be a permanent solution I would hang the light higher than the legs to get better coverage but since this is temporary, it will do just fine. I just can't say enough good things about the Alpha series light. So easy to program and the ramp up and ramp down is flawless. reefstar over fluval

Gee, I need a new bucket. I keep loaning mine out, or using them for other stuff..........Thanks Travis.

The tank is already rimless. 20141102_205452

If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right. I want this build to look clean. I'll find someone with a diamond drill or buy one and drill it symmetrically on the other side of the overflow.

Wouldn't that require me to add another return? Currently the tank has one return in the upper left corner through the back pane, the overflow is in the center. Would I need to drill for another return in the upper right hand corner?

Yea, started with one a couple of years ago. Have sold or traded off probably 5 or six. Just seems to be some kind of BTA orgy going on in that tank.

According to the release through Reef Builders the power bar will be a PB8, 8 outlets. Not sure I like the idea of not having a display though.

I can't find availability information on it.

I would say just about any LFS should have aragonite sand in stock. Most will have different grades.

This is going to replace Jenn's 6 gal. She likes the movement of Euphelia, colors of zoa's and little nano type fish. Probably not much to non on the sps front. Also probably move one or two of the nine RBTA's from the 39 cube into this.

I would say no. With an sps tank you either want to go bare bottom with lots of flow, or aragonite substrate with lots of flow. You never know what you're getting with play sand, but I would guess lots of phosphate and absolutely no buffering capacity.