First Set Up -- 01/16/04

low light coral is called chili coral

did you just setup is it still cycling?!!!!

Bought all out of a set-up store tank. Everything was pre-cycled. This is only a 12 gallon.

hope that's a halide for the clams sake

mantisreefer,

Kind of funny that I have PCs on the tank and not MH, but the clam (as well as everything else) has had incredible growth. So much that one year after setup, we have begun selling more than buying; including selling the clam bc it had 2" of growth. Check your information and helpfullness in the future.

I can appriciate corrective information, but from-the-hip critisism, especially when wrong, is unwanted.

Not to take sides here but I can understand mantisreefer's comment. If you read your caption, you imply that you got all of your stuff at once and added into the tank. Now I see that it is dated from a year ago but the caption goes with it. So I can understand why he or she may already have doubts about your knowledge. So I really don't think they were wrong in making that comment. Frankly most of the stuff you write along with your pictures is hard to comprehend. So understand that most people are here to help even if some do it in a non-constructive way. I am still a newbie but I see so many people diving into this hobby without any knowledge…at all..and end up killing fish and corals.

...and Clams really should be kept under brighter light than what any non-modified nanocube provides. Specifically as suggested...metal halide.

My girlfriend wrote all the text; and I agree in it's ambiguity. I have maintained salt aquariums for ten years and know the spectrum/WLengths needed by clams and which bulbs achieve it. I will agree that MHs look great and have an extra boost, but on a nano? I would state that it would be more damaging to the livestock in a 12g.

If proof is needed, check the before/after pics of the candy and the frogspawn pics are en route.

All stock are rescues from dying frags/colonies in private and store tanks - and have flourished under my care.

right on dude, it seems everyone on this site is out to prove they know everything. I realize their are people who are trying to help, but I swear everytime there is a photo of a tang or claim on this site people go nuts. It seems nearly impossible for someone to know right from wrong when every persons advice differs. You got people on hear saying one thing, lfs saying another(their full of shit), old books, new books, websites, etc. Maybe some people need to learn things for themselves to get knowledge of this great hobby.