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Hey everyone, I'm looking at coming back into the hobby... gave up a few years ago... was thinking of going Nano, but the number of tanks out there is phenomenal... wanted to ask all you experienced reefers if you've any suggestions... I've got a few combinations that I'm considering, but please feel free to add to this if you have suggestions! Combo 1: ADA tank with HOB filter Combo 2: Custom made nano with IOS filtration Combo 3: Ehiem Aquastyle Aquarium, modifying LED lights. Basically I want to keep things small, neat, and clutter free, so I'm leaning towards frequent water changes as opposed to getting the works like a protein skimmer, FR etc. Probably nothing too big, max 1.5ft kind size. Please share your advice and where I can get them!!

Iwarna Hawaii shipment reached. Nice size gold flake angel and potteri angel. Flame wrasse male, Bartlett , flame angel, yellow tang, kole tang, etc.

Off work early so decided to play with my cam. My fav fish. From TFC

Ok my two cents worth of sharings... Here goes: 1) Stock slowly! If there is one most important rule in this hobby it has to be this one! Adding livestock slowly is especially difficult to achieve for a new reefer because he will see many things that he likes and will want to buy all. Senior reefers we grow bored of many things and it becomes less of a problem to us. 2) Avoid certain difficult species especially those that can potentially wipe out the whole tank as they are just not worth taking the risk! Some tangs and butterflies are ich and velvet magnet and i try to avoid them as much as possible. 3) There is no need to quarantine every single fishes. Some fishes are better to add to the DT as fast as possible than to stress them putting them in QT. I always lose a fish when i have to move it to QT. Maybe i am bad at maintaining a proper QT, but seriously how many reefers here do? 4) Fishes die of too many reasons and most of it unknown. I have accepted it and losing a fish is painful to me now not because it is expensive, but because it is irreplaceable. If you cannot accept it like me, then there is no need to go into rare and expensive fishes. You can find equal joy in keeping a nice reef tank with modest corals and fishes. Happy reefing everyone!

any more panda at cf?

The fish channel as at last night About 8 Australia Marginalis butterfly- feeding from hand! Many Taiwan blue line angels- feeding pellets 1 XL French angel - feeding pellets 1 S French angel - feeding pellets 1 M gray angel - feeding pellets 1 L/XL blue angel - feeding pellets 1 L/XL kenya maculosus angel - feeding pellets 2 Popeye catalufa - feeding pellets (cute!) 2 Spanish hogfish - feeding pellets 1 Mexican hogfish - feeding pellets (rare!) 1 blackcap 2 royal gramma A few Long nose hawk fish 1 M regal angel - feeding pellets coral beauty angel - feeding pellets Bicolor angel - feeding pellets Yellow angel - feeding pellets That's all I can remember.

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That's great!!