I think my boxer crab is holding eggs! I thought the crabs were fighting all this time but maybe they were just getting it on :)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...Picture012.jpg

What should I do?

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In such a small tank, it probably won't make a difference either way. The tank is too small for a deep sand bed (DSB), so you'd probably do best keeping the substrate as shallow as possible. The depth of the sandbed in the first picture looks about right, IMO.

Coralife 50/50s. I've been using those for over a year in my nanos, and they work great for soft corals. They screw in to medium-based lightbulb sockets. Two 20W bulbs might be overkill; that's what I use on my 6 gallon tank. A 20W might do it, or maybe a 20W and a 10W?

HTH
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Stracraft 2 Replay

so now I have two light strips over my tank, and theyare both 8 inches long. It's the mini coralife light strips. I"m using 2 10000k 9 watt bulbs, 2 actinic 9watt bulbs. Is that good? The corals look much nicer now. I see more of the colors that didn't show up before but some are still brown.

mixixes! nice to see you on here, well i havent been using canreef much but i see that we have converted you:mrgreen: :mrgreen: i cant wait to see what your final tank will look like, so far so good

Imisky after seeing your tank I told you I was gonna have to do one too! It's all your fault, but thank you, b/c i love my tank so much, but dones't quite look as nice as yours. I'm still trying to figure it all out

Update... so i made some changes in the tank and now it's been running for about 3-4 months and I like it alot better. Here are some pics.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/CIMG0005.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/CIMG0011.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/CIMG0013.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/CIMG0025.jpg

my sharknose goby

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/CIMG0004.jpg

my featherduster

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/CIMG0012.jpg

my refugium

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/CIMG0076.jpg

enjoy!

Hey there, The tank is looking good.
Nice stuff you have in there.
Can't see the xenia, is it hiding? :wink:

LOVE the fuge setup! Great work! I see you have a standard powerhead pumping water into the fuge, what do you have pumping water out? Dying to know! :)

I think I killed the xenia :( it stopped pulsing and stretched out looking all funny so I scraped it off. Maybe I will give it another shot when I'm brave enough to have another one :)

I didn't make the refugium, mykiss made it for me. There is the powerhead pumping water into the fuge and then another tube on the other end that goes into the tank. Mykiss explained to me as the water level equals out between the tank it will pump excess water back into the main tank. But I don't know how, but it works!