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Probably nobody knows what a 300 2G is. What are the dimensions that you are looking for and/or will fit?

I know that this is a long shot, but thought that I would ask before I went and looked elsewhere. Over 100 gallons is what I am looking for and a 36x36x27/30 would be great. Time to let my larger tanks go and get some smaller ones.

Just out of curiosity, with the short lifespan, will you start more juveniles ahead of time to have them ready to replace the adults? If you just keep the home co2 below 500 ppm, then pH should not be an issue with any tank. It will help the humans, dogs, cats and everything. However, the...

Most people spend more battling dinos and filamentous algae than they would have spent if they had purchase live rock in the first place. You can catch a shrimp or crab in a bottle trap in a day or two, but dinos or hair algae can take a year or more. GFO, Al Oxide and other orthophosphate...

The Eheim has been awesome for a few decades. Super reliable and the batteries last for a long time. They are not expensive either.

The clowns usually have to acclimate slowly so that their slime coat can build up. Even clowns and other damsels (same fish with different costumes) can get captured and eaten if they just dive in without making changes to their bodies first. This is likely why it took a while. You can...

Peer reviews and other comments on the sea bird article seem to indicate that what allows the birds to thrive is what makes the reef more healthy, not the bird's themselves - the article is too generic, did not cite the birds or any analysis of the poop which, etc. The fish available for food...

In nearly all cases, algae will outcompete any coral for what it needs. Your coral will want/need to get nitrogen from ammonia, so you have to keep feeding your fish or else your corals can suffer. Macro algae can use no3 - micro algae generally cannot and the host has to use energy to convert...

You should at least mention that PAR is a human-eye derived measurement and there are wavelengths both below 400nm and above 700nm that are beneficial for photosynthetic things. This is all very complicated, but even one sentence about how true UVA can help corals fluoresce or that IR from...

If you need to buy, then rubbermade stock tank is what you want to search for. Tractor Supply usually has them in store.

Vibrant is a proven algaecide, was fined by the EPA and had to stop production. You might consider not mentioning Vibrant as a carbon dosing source in your article. They used GLB Algimycin 600 which is a polyquat and the same ingredient in AlgaeFix, Fritz and many other properly labled...

Also, please don't try and kill dinos. Dinos are in every one of your corals and you will harm them too. Watch this, if you have not:

I am not a dino pro. Sorry. I have live rock going back to GBR and Marshall Island days which does not allow most things to take hold. I would deal with them by ordering some live rock and letting the stuff spread while also manually removing the hair and dinos. Put the real live rock in the...

Get some urchins and more snail/crabs to eat the hair. It will help if the dinos don't have places to live. Keep pulling the algae to help out the increased crew. An order from a place like ReefTopia is a good idea and you money goes further. Watch the video from Rich Ross on Algae from...

no3 to n2 requires an electron donor which is complicated, but might be good to discuss in your article. I vacuum my sand in 20% intervals over a year every 4 years to remove the mostly inert grey sludge/mulm that can gum up a working DSB - mine are about 3 inches. Dr. Ron and I disagreed...

You might consider discussing how heavy/toxic metals often bind to organics and using a skimmer can be the most effective way to remove them - these metals often come into every tank in fish food. Gas exchange is too important not to discuss. The triad of heavy metal removal, gas exchange and...

Joes and AipX are watered down Kalkwasser with some lemon juice, vinegar or some other additive, so just mix your own next time in a bit of water. Home made mix is usually stronger and more effective. Red Solo Cup, Mrs. Wages Pickling Lime and an old Salifert Test Kit syringe. I mix it thick...

Don't worry about iodine. Neither OES nor MS can tell which type of idoine was in the water and only Iodide is useful... Organic Iodine, elemental iodine, iodide, iodate, I++, shineola, etc. and all of the other forms show the same peak on ICP, but they are not useful. The compound matters...

I would vacuum 25-33% of the sand with those water changes. Get the gunk out that has settled in there, if there is any. Don't do it all since you need the oxic and anoix zones to establish again after you mix them up. Maybe do another quarter or third of the sand a few months from now. Suck...

Keep feeding it well and it should be OK. I had the same fish from ORA/Biota and it was a weird fish. It never really wanted to eat algae since it probably never saw any in it's whole life - it eventually got with the program. It also did not know how to act around other/different fish for a...