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Interested to see your new flow across the bottom. I am having an issue with detritus.

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Third in line for consideration if two don't pan out. If so, I would like to know the tank dimensions.

Until you get a more informed response... Sorry to see that - what a lovely colony you have there. I can't tell from the pic but are the brown tips only on branches at the top? If so, that seems odd it would be caused by raised alk throughout the tank. Also, I think we had some corals get...

I always appreciate tips like yours, so thank you for the info!

Once our frag tank is fixed up and one class calms the heck down we will be fragging. Need to chill a bit with learning about tides for a couple classes then practice fragging with playdough models.

Check out posts #174-175,178 above! Ooooh - I would love to see them in the wild!

Beautiful - I've never see that!

No idea - from @Holly94583 If you would like some it would be good to have it in more than one tank in case something happens to ours. Side view:

Here is our big tank. I think overfeeding is causing some green slimy algae and bit of macroalgae to grow. Adding a long handled plastic scraper into the maintenance toolbox bc the algae magnet cannot reach everywhere. Sometime I will get some shots of corals and inverts I love. This tank has a...

Current status of our former clownfish-anemone tank. It will be nice to be able to look back as the school year progresses to see where we started. In this tank I would like to look into increasing the little return pump to see if I can ditch the in-tank powerheads to increase safety for anemones.

Moving on to former frag tank which is now mainly a cleaner shrimp, crab, algae and foraminiferan habitat. Decided to skip sea hare, peroxide dip, etc., and just restart. Still deciding if it will be a certain biotope, shrimp and softies tank, specialized inverts, or bonzai reef. I love the...

Eeek. The 7-year-old sandbed in our big tank is always in the back of my mind... Thanks for the abalone suggestion.

Continuing the current state of tanks for the record, here are copepod and brine shrimp/phyto habitats that have been going since school closure in March 2020. Yep, they look bad and there is an abundance of mulm in the bottom of the tanks but it is pretty amazing how they have survived. A...

Quarantine tank is bursting at the seams after the swap at CaliKid and a visit from @Holly94583 (thank you!). As soon as the lowboy storm has passed, some corals will go there; others will be mounted in our big tank after an algae removal and water change next week.

Whelp, I have realized I have no idea how to run a barebottom tank - lowboy frag tank. Lightweight algae and detritus galore. Draining down and heavily supergluing the internal overflow box seems to have worked perfectly and I currently have floss clamped to the tank wall to mechanically filter...

I have never had my sump overflow, but have had mishaps with spills from the clean water hose flowing outside the sump during water changes, as well as a spill when refilling a dosing jug. I might be spill prone, but seems wise to protect the whole floor inside the stand.

My plate is overflowing right now and while it was exciting to get down a tank to start prepping for a mantis shrimp, I think I feel relieved you will give it a good home!

I could set up a 20g long tank with sand and a rocky hideout (and PVC?) for this guy but would need to cycle it and refresh myself on what his needs are. I thought he needed a big tank but maybe I'm mistaken. I once had a mantis shrimp in a glass tank and he never smashed it. I am not sure how...

The shrimp could be hiding out in your rock. I have sworn mine were gone, only to see them swaying upside down in rocky caves and coming out to take bits of fish when I fed the tank.