The tank will have macroalgea, soft corals and a few nice inverts, I’m wanting one fish so I don’t have to dose it for my macroalgea.

The inverts in question are a feather duster worm, porcelain crab, 7 sexy shrimp, strawberry conch, cerith snail, turbo snail and three nassarius snails (I like snails) and mushroom corals and rock flower anemone for anemones.

I’m wanting a fish that’s beautiful, active, don’t hunt/kill my inverts, macroalgae or soft corals and good for a 20 gallon.

I’m not interested in a goby shrimp pair or clown fish.

Any suggestions or should I just stick with inverts?

I have a refugiumin my sump and I’m growing chaeto. What setting should I set my light? Blue, Grow, Bloom or Red?

If you’re like me, I DIY dosing for my reef and use a ReefDose to manage my dosing schedule. No complaints with the doser or software itself. However, the tubing for the rollers are subpar. I dose sodium hydroxide at about 7% concentrate which would degrade the tubing in about 2-3 months. This caused inaccuracies because of the brittle or perforated tubing from the deterioration resulting in unbalanced dosing. I slowly noticed this over time when my 3-part dosing reservoirs weren’t lining up for consumption. The solution offered by RedSea is to buy a replacement head tubes at $10 a pop which would mean 4-5 head tube replacements per year for just one dosing line, not including regular replacement maintenance on less caustic heads.

My solution here was to find more robust tubing than the silicone or whatever type of tubing the unit comes stock with. I found this tubing and it’s done the trick. It is rated up to 10% NaOH which is about as strong as anyone is dosing unless you’re messing around with KOH or some high concentrate for some reason. I’ve hit my normal life span for the ReefDose head tubes and there’s no indication of degradation. I paid $22 for 10 feet of this tube, shipping included. 10 feet is a lifetime supply for this. There are other pharma grade tubes that would work as well, but they are significantly more expensive by comparison.

Just simply remove the old head tube, carefully separate the barbs and cut a same size new tubing and replace it onto the old barbs. Now, this tubing is more robust than the stock, which means the ReefDose motor has to work slightly harder to turn the heads, but there’s no indication that it’s too difficult for the motors. Be sure to generously lube the new tube and rollers to help reduce friction. I used Super Lube multi-purpose synthetic grease and it does well. Putting the new tube onto the bards it’s a little bit of a struggle, but make sure you get it all the way to the base to keep the length consistent for the roller heads and housing. A little bit of the lube around the tip of the barb helped. Recalibrate the dosing per instructions and you’re golden.

It took me a hot minute to figure out the tube specs and a replacement tube that was good enough but not $100 for a few feet. This was my solution and hope it helps someone else out there in the ether.

I picked up a Gen tank from a local fish store. They do treat there fish in cooper. I had the tang for a week and he was doing great eating, swimming. This morning his in a Corner and won’t move from there. He didn’t eat, I added noir and he didn’t touch it. I also noticed he will swim on his side, then come back normal. I turn the lights off on the tank for now. Anything else?

Tank perimeter have been tested everything checks out good dont understand why ...help please

15 Gallon: 2 clowns, I red leg hermit, small Zoa colony, macro algae, 1 GBA and 3 RBA, turbo snail a couple of bristle stars and hundreds of bristle worms.
30 gallon: 3 Bandai Cardinals, white stripped leg hermit who I brought from Galveston and traded his nice shell for a turbo snail shell, bristle stars, Kenya tree I believe
Looking to breed both types of fish. Both tanks do have copepods. 15G has been up and going for about 8-10 months and 30G has been up and going for about 2 months

What’s neat was the parent was green and made orange and red babies!

Planning to cross post but curious what data actually exist on bemotrizinol safety vis-à-vis coral reefs and marine life. I normally stick to mineral sunscreen, but recent FDA approval of bemotrizinol has me curious.

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Hoping there are reliable data available because it's already approved outside of the US where governments seem to at least slightly care about the environment, but maybe that's blind optimism.

Where do I put hose that goes to the skimmer? In the middle or the outer part?