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    What Anthias do you have & who often do you feed it?

    I've kept all kinds of reef fish with the exception of anthiids. My wife has been bugging me for years to get Anthias but I've always ruled against em. She saw a Lori's at Old Town Aquariums and she's been bugging me ever since. I have room for one more pelagic fish, and it's probably gonna be...
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    Longnose Hawk and Cleaner Shrimps

    The 'hawk will stop by the cleaning station about 3-4 times a day. The trick is to get a shrimp that's larger than the Longnose, and keeping the fish well fed. I wouldn't trust a Flame or Falco Hawk around one.
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    New tank up and going fuge-less. Long term observations?

    I just put up a new 40 Breeder with a 15 gal sump. I have the sump running without a fuge and I was planning to run just GAC & GFO instead of a chaeto fuge on a reverse light cycle as I've done in the past. I'd like to get away from the issues I've had in my previous tank with a deep sand bed...
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    Best way to sustain corals while new Display is installed?

    I'm going to be taking down my 55g in order to put a new tank in it's place. While the new tank cycles, I am housing a few fish in a few 10 gallon tanks plumbed to 1 sump. I don't want to put these in the same system with my fish system because I'm doing a preventative hyposalinity treatment...
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