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I have green striped mushrooms that thrive in my 120 gallon FOWLR under 100 watts of light. Also some brown button polyps are doing good higher up in the tank. I just added a knobby sea rod that seems to be doing well.

Has anyone done business with them recently? I placed an order a month ago, sent a couple emails recently and haven't heard back. Are they still in business?

I have my 175 watt 7" on my 55 gal. I think it was about 4" when it was on my 38 gal, but that was with a cover glass.

Same old, same old at RDO...........later dudes, I got to rip a reef apart.

My FOWLR is about as lazy as they come. After two years it is looking really good without many algea problems. I think overfeeding was causing a lot of it. It's a 120 gal with the DSB in the tank with about 100 lbs of rock. I have three long spined sea urchins for algae control and a cople of...

About 4 pm yesterday I heard the tank UPS beep for a second or two then shut off.....must have been when everyone else lost it. No problems here, but I did have my tank run on one powerhead plugged into the UPS for a few hours a couple nights prior. Something had tripped the main breaker when I...

Yes that is what I mean.

I try to go with the biggest size I can fit. You need to make sure you have enough space for water from the main tank to drain in case of power failure. Also figure in the amount of space a skimmer will take up and any other equipment you want to put in your sump. My sump on my 55 gal is a 38...

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When I put a "clean" regal tang in my 120, I assumed it was going to get ich. A few days later it had ich. I fed garlic/vitamin soaked nori from day one for as long as it had ich, which was a couple of weeks. It finally cleared up. Not sure if the fish was healthy enough to fight off the ich or...

I started with a 38 gal + sump. It think it is a great size for beginners, you can do decent water changes with one bucket :wink: . You are limited with fish selection and can be limited with the size of corals. Most of the LFS in my area carry big coral colonies that wouldn't fit easily in a...

I've toyed with several types of emergency backup sources and still haven't found the best solution other than buying a generator. I did buy a APC 500 to run a powerhead in my main tank, not sure how long it will run though. I didn't realize until I had bought the unit that it runs the powerhead...

Been there, done that. First look into some sort of chilling unit, even if it is just a window A/C in the fish room. I have my A/C unit in the same room set to come on when the room hits 82. It works great. As for your sandbed, if you still have some critters alive in it, I would keep a few lbs...

I was going to suggest urchins as well, but I think some triggers have the ability to blow urchins over and eat them from underneath. At least thats what I saw on a T.V. special once. I tried some huge turbo snails in my fowlr, but I think my wrasse finally got to them. I still have both my left...

Two at the moment, 55 gal reef 120 gal FOWLR that I maintain for someone. I would like to consolidate the SW into one tank and run a freshwater or an African Cichlid tank at some point.