Sugar, thanks for the info!
saved me the trouble of looking for it. I built a canopy for the tank today, and left the back open for the day when I can add an Aquaclear refugium.
I am still a bit unsure of the rules. I, too, thought that the equipment cut-off date for the contest was March 30 (now changed to May 8). I shall need to verify that.
Budha, actually, I am having trouble with the 13 inch thing. I've read varying size potentials on these fish, (all expert sources) ranging from 5 inches to 13". There seems to be some confusion out there. I'm thinking there could be a subspecies or another species that's relatively identical when small. I realize that there are people out there who own 13 inchers...but the thing is, I've had 3 of these engineer "gobies" in a 175g bowfront reef for over a year and a half now, and all three are exactly 5 inches long. There isn't even a size discrepancy between them...you know how when you put three jaguar cichlids in a tank, one grows to six inches overnight, one stays at 3 inches, and one actually shrinks an inch
But I put these guys in there when they were the same size as mine is now and they all grew pretty much at the same speeds, and all stopped at 5 inches. I figure if mine grows at the same speed as they did, it will take him two years to outgrow this tank LOL
knowse, little engineer boy has decided to take my rockwork down to a new level
I must head on over to the Nano Build-off thread and add some pics of his hard labor
Poor lil thing worked up an appetite today LOL