Dont worry about the boards, Being an engineer if i thought they were a problem i would have done it diff (just a fast way to add move usable volume in case of overflow and noone sees it).Originally Posted by melev
The boards are not supporting the full tank. They are covering most of the span of bottom glass, but that is up to you. Honestly, you have a beautiful home from the pictures I saw, and your low-budget setup doesn't match up.
Why are you using a HOB filter on the refugium?
The anemone looks like a Seabae to me, although the images aren't clear enough to be positive. Sorry about that, it is just a guess at this point.
There is something called alleopathy, a type of chemical warfare that occurs between anemones in a single system. It is better to pick one that you want rather than to have many different ones. With chemicals, they literally kill another one on the opposite end of the tank. Please do more research on that, in case that is what is occurring your tank.
It could be a water quality issue, or even a lighting issue. What lights did you put over this tank?
Cured LR is expensive. Do you have more than one LFS in your area? Or perhaps there are hobbyists or a club that you can visit with. Oftentimes there are people either downgrading or leaving the hobby that sell their LR for $2 to $4 per pound.
The light fixture is a T5 unit. It has 2 54w 10000kelvins and 2 actinics. I have them on from 9am-4:00pm everyday. The blinds are closed during the weekdays to keep it as dark as possible in the room.
The HOB filter is used still just to run the carbons. I just swapped out the bags with new ones cause my amonia was .5ppm and i thought that maybe it was due to the bags (they were about 3weeks old). Although it could be some of the live rock, the last 2 peices i was told were cured and they did not smell to bad but i think they were not fully cured. There are about 4LFS in the area. the live rock ranges from 7.99 for some uncured to 9.99 cured, depending on the store.
br12349 I have about 4watts per gallon. Your tank is EXTREMLY clean compared to mine. My crushed coral is starting to turn a little green, and it apears i have a hair algae problem. You whole tank looks so clean. I changed my background to black and i seen that the whole back of my tank is brown/green. I have to scrape the 3 sides almost every other day. Toward the bottom near the substrate it gets a line of green pretty bad. Do you vacume your substrate often, it just looks so clean compared to mine, what am i doing wrong? Could it be that i do not have enough live rock and still waiting on my protein skimmer to arrive? Like i stated above, lights are on from 9-4pm daily.
Anyone have any ideas on the microbubbles, they make my tank look cloudy. Its a real drag on looking at it with the lights on.
Thanks for the input
-Tom
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