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Found this not so little guy (body about 2 inches across) in our display hiding in a rock.... he now resides in our sump. Looks like a Xanthid to me, anyone else with an idea?

Just a nice shot of our goby!

thank you for the quick answer cindre, exactly what i wanted to hear!!

Im looking into getting RODI unit , I noticed alot of them offer pressurized holding tanks in a combo. Is this necessary or can you set up the rodi and just empty the pure water into my mixing tub?

:?: I recently upgraded my lighting on our 125 to a 400w 20000k MH and thus need to move a couple corals around. I set my light ( MH is lighting one half of the tank only, about 20 in from water surface while the other side of the tank has 2 22 inch 14000 T5s with 2 T5 actinics) I am curious if...

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sorry about the double post, internet connection suks .....

"edited double post"

Here are a couple of the new corals we picked up on our trip to florida, great prices, nothing over 55 bucks

last ones ..... for now

and a few more .....

Taking the plunge shortly into the coral world, thought Id share some before pictures of our tank! Located in my basement bar, " Maple Leaf Bardens" ( throw out all the anti Toronto Maple Leaf jokes you want, I was a fan back in the 80s and nothing was worse than that) I custom built the...

Thanks Len, I had actually already looked into an xm 20 000 k for that exact reason! Glad to know I was on the right track, Lighting wattage, colour etc has always seemed confusing to me!!

I was also considering using a screen diffuser for the first couple of weeks, layering some aluminum window screen 4 or 5 layers deep and removing a layer every couple of days to lessen the shock of it all

I thought it was a bit high as well, like i mentioned in my first post, im looking to branch out in the coral area with some that require higher lighting, im not concerned with maintaining my polyps and mushrooms as they are doing fine with the lighting i have now, i can move them away from the...