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I too, will special order for customers. If something is a great deal cheaper online, I will often even help them find who to order it from. Some dry-goods are cheaper online than I can get them from my distributors! How cool is that?

They can be bad. Some are photosynthetic, like the one pictured above. They can enshroud coral, blocking the light. They are extremely toxic. Do not crush or smear them with the algae magnet, for they will only make more! There are "reef safe" medications to treat such an outbreak, but it is...

I say three months before the GSP nukes it.

The lion is more than enough.

Some people have good luck with multiple species of shrimp in the same tank. Some don't. The coral banded shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) can be very aggressive towards small fish and definitly to other shrimp. The fire or blood shrimp (Lysmata debelius) is not as pushy as the coral banded, but will...

It is encouraged by red spectrum. How old are your PC's? Even on high quality ballasts, the functional lifespan of PC"s is short. As they age, they shift in color, producing too much red spectrum, encouraging the snotty slimy growth.