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I just noticed some in the 6 gal the other day. I haven't added anything to that tank in months. Must be something in the air. I needa really small wrasse.

Here is what I use: http://www.marinedepot.com/Kamoer_Aquarium_Dosing_Pump_Dosing_Pumps-Kamoer-PL00501-FIDPDO-vi.html

Just raise the fuge above the sump and still the 40 towards the top. Install a bulkhead with a 90 street elbow inside the fuge with the top at your desired water level and plumb the du side of the bulkhead with pic to the sump. I agree, you are way over thinking this

I think we'll make this one. Thanks John.

I sent you a pm with contact info for reefstar.

I had an external standpipe (durso) on the 30 cube that Jeremy linked to. If you wanted to build, or have built, an external overflow box and mount it on the tank you could put a bean animal in it and still use the second existing hole as the return. You would need to somehow remove the upper bulkhead and get an additional gasket to seal the overflow box to the tank, you now have two wet sides. 

They are pretty cool. I love mine. Congratulations on the win.

What kind of skimmer is it? How long has it been running?

Some skimmers will stop discharging microbubbles after breaking in, usually a week or two. 

Another option would be to get a cone type screen to put in the wet side of the bulkhead where the intake of your pump is. Then put a foam prefilter on it. That would break up most of any bubbles as well. 

I'm still running a Halide / T5 combo over a 39gal cadlights bowfront. Its where my 13 annenomes live and split, along with toadstool, leather, and my Mandarin. 

I can attest to the fact that entering Robert's place is akin to entering a aquarium / zoo / store. Everywhere you look is tanks filled with fish, coral, spiders, lizards, snakes. If you are ever there have him show you the "monster" that lives under the stairs. There are finned friends as well as furry ones. After visiting Roberts place Jenn just had to have sugar gliders. Now we have two of those too. 

Robert is a great guy and always more than fair in trades and sales. I got my first annenome from him. 

Thanks Bert for stepping up in the club to make a difference.

Try zoro.com for gate valves. They have great prices and fast shipping. I bought two recently for a 30 cube build I'm finishing up.

And welcome to the zoo.

Of the top of my head, I hope the nitrite is transposed with nitrate. Mag is low.

If you truly have nitrite, that is what's killing things.

I think he means cuprisorb media

Me thinks you may be correct sir.

CUPRAMINE? In a coral tank?  Tell me thats a typo.

Sometimes I just want to hurt people.......

To all you I phone users, should have got a droid.

Make mine a Jack-o-lantern lepto. :-)

You still have a healthy lead Brad. I must admit, I voted for 4 different pics. Yours was one of them.

I'm glad you got elected John. Here's wishing you the best of luck! Go Old School!

Had almost the exact thing happen. I just felt bad for the flame because he would swim toward the clowns hosting area in the middle, get chased away to the other side. Return later, same thing. Always seemed to be getting chased from the center where the clowns were. No one died, just don't like to see the stress is all. Clowns also chased my red tail tamarin wrasses tail...he's a little stinker.

 

Def cover your top or cover all outlets on the hood. Lost a wrasse or two from them somehow finding a 3x3" vent hole in my hood to kamikaze out of :(

The flame is a great fish. he will come perch on my hand when I stick the nori clip on the glass. I don't really think he cares much if the clown tries to bully him. He has lots of of places to sit and watch the world go by. 

My oc clown doesn't like red fish. But I've had a flamehawk for several years now and the clown chases him away from the paly's he hosts but other than that the flamehawk holds his own. I also had a bluespot jawfish, recently lost him, and was fine with the flamehawk. The only one that showed aggression to the jawfish was the sailfin. 

Any of the wrasses are jumpers, as well as jawfish. Make sure your tank is well covered with fine mesh if you add either.

That torch and BTA are going to grow and nuke the sps on the rocks above them. That is if the bta doesn't decide to go on a walkabout before that. I wuit trying to keep anenomes in a reef tank. They have their own tank now with a few leathers, toadstools, and lps on the sandbed. 

I would recommend you not add any fish till you are sure about the health of the ones you have. Do some trading on the life cycle of ich. They are only visible on fish in one of the four stages.

Mock me if you like but not everyone in this hobby is honest. There are a lot of fish being sold and traded on the boards. Do you suggest dipping fish as well?  Just trying to promote responsible reefkeeping.

I know this a kind of a hot topic, but ich is NOT always in the water, NOT in every system, and all fish do NOT have ich. If your fish do indeed have ich, and you choose to do nothing about it, then your system will always have ich and you will be putting all your fish at risk. 

I have not had a disease outbreak in any of my systems since I started quarantining all new arrivals. They go a minimum of 6 weeks in a bare bottom tank where they have a chance to start eating without competition, get used to the activity around the house, and show any signs of parasites or disease. If symptoms do show up, then they get treated. This comes after a mishap where I didn't follow a quarantine protocol and lost over 75% of the fish in 2 different tanks. 

You can choose what you want to do, to treat or not to treat. But if you choose to ignore it, and you sell, or trade anything from your system to others, please tell them that you have ich in your system. It can be transferred on anything wet, fish, frags, inverts.