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You can dose daily with this until you feel you have achieved the results you are after. I've used in quaratine for 7 days as a preventative.

I tend to find more colorful sps private then at a local store.

Most skimmers have a knob to adust the level of the bubbles going up into the cup. Your rock must be dirty, adjust bubble level down.

I run both. Even with ATS growing good, skimmer still collects a lot.

I have a scrubber running that grows algae well, however, I still run a skimmer and it pulls a lot of dissolved organics. On my tank I find a skimmer is still necessary with the scrubber.

Filter sock?

Fish only, anything ok. I think you might have to just try it and see how the soft corals react. I've never seen anyone use these on a tank as a main light.

I'd like to see the inside. How well is the algae growing?

How big is the tank and how much SPS? That sounds like a lot. Suspicious of Calcium test. Still 380 after adding 187ml of calium does not sound right.

Expensive. I'd target feed instead of adding to tank.

Over the long run the cost can balance out. But as far as hassle free, you've got the reactor to maintain, CO2 bottle and gas to purchase, dialing in the amount of CO2, and managing the low pH of what is coming out of kalk reactor. Here is a good video that might help:

I've got two hermits that have not touched my four large turbos. However, they killed several ceriths and a couple of my medium size cowries for their shells. This is in a well feed four foot tank. I would not put hermits in a small tank with snails where they might have to compete more for food. That's why I'd recommend only snails. Article on algae blennys. Their diet is much more than just algae. http://www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com/downloads/pdf/version19.pdf

Ok, good luck with your tank.

LCK owner was waiting for a new fish shipment in a few days. Don't remember exactly what day.

Looking for flame hawk fish. Did not see at CF or LCK yesterday (LCK had very small amount of fish).

I clean my socks with bleach in the washing machine, then run them again with just water. Just make sure there is no bleach smell after cleaning. Any kind of soap is what you do not want to use.

The rotten egg smell is gas from bacteria that are growing without using oxygen. My best guess is that the red sea additive caused the oxygen using bacteria to rapidlly mulitply until oxygen levels got low enough to cause the non oxygen using bacteria (anerobic) to rapidly mulitply and produce the hydrogen gas you smell. Using the rock should not be a problem if you let it cycle in the new tank. The oxygen using bacteria (aerobic) need to take back over. Hydrogen gas can easily kill your tank life so give it some time like you would a normal cycle (few weeks).

I always use a refractometer, mix to 1.026 for coal tank, 1.022 fish only. I eventually switched from Oceanic due to the calcium being so high. I would always get 500+. Maybe ok for heavy SPS. Directions should be on container for how much to add for the amount of water, but refractometer should always be used to confirm.

You should frag zoas with gloves on also. I've had tingling in my fingers a few times from fragging without gloves. The toxin in some zoas is really strong.

I'd just stick with a few snails.

That's pretty cool. Must be DIY, never seen one before. Low nitrates and phosphates along with snails or hermits will get the algae under control.

I've always thought running a calcium reactor more complicated than dosing. Most people start with dosing vs. starting a calcium reactor. Are you using dosing pumps or dosing manually?

If it's healthy, happy and not harassed, I don't think it will be a problem. It doesn't release toxin continuously. It's more of a defense mechanism. I'm considering getting one myself.

I haven't tried it, but I think mysis is too big. I feed the tank a blended up mix of squid, clams and shrimp that I freeze into cubes. The tank gets lots of small pieces for the corals that my coco worm is probably catching also. And when I scrape the tank glass a lot of small bits of algae gets circulated. So far (1 year), the coco worm has done well. I do not target feed it. I'm pretty sure there is frozen out there, but the only thing I see in Singapore is mysis, brine shrimp and blood worms. I can't find all of the other varieties like spirulina from ocean nutrition.

At one foot, I'd think pretty much any led lighting should be enough for Zoas. One of the easiest corals to have.