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You close to flushing, NY? Fishtown on northern boulevard has them for $3.99 a lb.. in terms of coralline algae growth and other stuff on it, it's kinda bare.. so you could either use it as base rock or if you have existing rocks with coralline, you can seed these.. nevertheless, they should...

i hear.. getting more than you paid for can be quite nice.. as long as the hitchikers aren't bad.. =P

one of the downsides to turbos are that you have to watch out for them.. if they fall onto their backs, they can sometimes have a hard time getting back on their feet.

Updating.... =)

I'd do the 10-12 hours of light... assuming good water quality, no algae should break out too bad..

you can check this for reference...http://www.garf.org/trever/MUSH.html

I have a corner tank and wish i had done the sump. Maintenance can be a bit tough with all the hang ons... Plus I would have a good amount of room to grow some macro algaes and help keep the nitrates lower.. unfortunately, since it's a corner tank, the cabinet's door is too small to add a tank...

i had an aiptasia growing on a small piece of dead coral, i was able to take it out and burn it over my stove.. it felt good.. however, a much larger aiptasia was growing on a large piece of rock.. after i took out the whole rock, i haven't had any aiptasia in my main tank for months... i gave...

my snails have also laid eggs a few times on the aquarium glass... most often, they didnt survive the night. you could probably use a cardboard cutter knife and scrape it off the glass and put it in a separate holding area, but i don't think it's worth all the hassle.. i also have bumble bee...

haha... this place is too crazy...

I agree with krullulon, my turbos are awesome at eating algae, they work constantly. the ceriths and bumble bees lounge around most of the time. but, who can discount the beauty of the bumble bee snail..=P the nassarius snails are great at turning the sand around and keep algae from tank a foot...

You might also want to do some research on the particular shroom before you get it, some mushrooms can eat fish.. by enclosing their cap around them.. some of the larger mushrooms can do this, like the umbrella mushroom. they have been known to eat cardinals and inverts that stray into it's...

i have yellow tail damsels and an algae blenny in the same tank. the yellowtail and blenny used to get into fights all the time. same thing, territorial issues. the blenny would be sitting on a live rock and the yellowtail would come around and try to nip it or flip it's tail in the blenny's...

sure, if you consider yourself an aquarist.. that would mean, you would actively go out and purchase more goods for your beta i would assume.. like decorations and food and what not.. i'm basically trying to find out how many aquarist there are out there.. from there i can estimate how much each...

Yeah, i thought about aragonite.. but crushed oyster shells seems to a be whole lot cheaper.. that is, if i can find a local place to pick it up from.. but thanks for the welcome.