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I've been eyeing my butcher's knife with that thought in mind. Only problem is I have two clowns hosting the nem, Maroons.. I understand it also takes time for nems to heal after cutting them in half.. I'd think slicing my nem might disrupt my reef just a bit. The Maroons will go crazy for sure.

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It hasn't split but it's huge. Approx. 12 inches in diameter. I'm actually getting a bit concerned it will start extending and sting my SPS. When it starts to extend close to my SPS, I've been lightly poking the extended area of the nem disc, and it will retract back a bit. I've been doing...

Looks great Patrick. BTW the neon green tip you gave me a year ago is doing well. Thanks again.

I thought I'd take some new photos of my tank to log progress around the 1 year mark. After a year, the tank seems to be settling and corals are growing well. FTS at about 1 year: I feel like I'm maxed out on...

The XP 2000 seen in person is a large skimmer. I'm thinking you'd be fine with the XP 1000. I've seen these skimmers in action and they work well with the bubble blaster pumps. I was looking at these cone skimmers as well, but for my sump, I didn't like the water level requirement. They...

Thanks! Have fun setting up your system.

Some corals can be far more resilient to water parameter changes than others. It's just like some people being more or less susceptible to catching a cold depending upon prior conditions. I have also noticed with my corals and past tank parameter swings that some corals do not react to "bad"...

It looks like you closed the back of the stand off? If you are planning to put a sump down there I'd suggest highly against sealing the back off. I sealed mine with removable panels initially but shortly removed them after noticing my cabinet doors bowing from the water evaporation of my sump...

Does it have black silicon seal? I like howthe starfires have black silicone as well. White/clear silicon kinda glows under lights and can be a bit distracting to the display.

Gate valve on drain side.

Gate valve on return side.

I'd be more concerned with keeping alk in check. Alk swings are very problematic for fish and corals. I've lost fish and corals due to low alk and ph swings. Keep alk up! I second the alk staying up with cal being seemingly high. Typically, you can't keep alk up with high cal. Test...

Those starfires are really nice. I'm happy with my AGA and like the center brace to be able to rest an autofeeder on. I don't know how else I'd mount one with my canopy on. The center brace is also useful for resting pliers glue etc.

Looks good!

So I just added a tiny 1 inch Gold Bar Maroon Clown to pair with my 4.5 inch female already in my tank. She had been residing in my neon green tip bubble anemone for about a year. Prior to that she hosted in a green anemone in my 29 gallon cube. I've watched her grow for two years and thought...

It was a pleasant surprise when I attached the monti to my rock. I have a few other green sps frags, but nothing that branches with the round monti polyps. Im getting great polyp extension from both the monti and milli frags. Thanks again for the generous sized, nice quality frags.

Wow, amazing tank progress!! Awesome display of corals. I thought I'd drop in and see how your tank was doing considering a couple of your frags are now in my tank from the swap. I got your green branching monti and red milli. Thanks for the great frags!! I hope I can grow my sps into...

Link to my BK Mini 180 in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqV2JaWPcmc&feature=youtube_gdata_player