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has anyone got one of these or does anyone know if they are any good? i am looking at the 1000 model. any help would be much appreciated. regards, simon.

one more question. when can i start putting in snails, crabs and satrfish and little cleaners and stuff, are they hardyer than fish and i can put them in before the cycle is over. also how many of each should be going in there, i havent seen any articles about how many cleaners you should have...

i am curing the rock in the tank but i am also cycling the tank itself for the first time, i want to keep the rock as alive as possible so should i be running my skimmer and activated carbon beacuse that would take out all the good stuff to get the tank to cycle properly (i think).

i have another tank i can put the sand in for now thanks for yuor advice, hopefully the rock wont take to long to cure beacuse it will only be out of water for about 3 - 4 hours i was reading a letter written by Dallas Warren about curing live rock and the amount of light that should be used...

thanks for the reply brian, This tank is 2 years in the making i custom built the hood and cabinet a little over 2 years ago and i have been slowly bying all i need to get it going since then, i finally saved 2grand for all the other stuff i needed like salt and live rock to get it finally up...

Hi Everybody, i am new to this forum but what a gold mine of reef keeping information. i am also new to saltwater fish keeping i am setting up a 180 gallon reef tank. i have some question in regards to live rock and live sand? i have put 55 pounds of base rock in that i got fairly cheep and i am...