When i seen your thread on 780 i thought they were both FW, glad to see your in the SW hobby now! Tanks lookin sharp!

they were all freshwater.

this is my first saltwater tank

I like the aquascaping job :biggrin: The damsels can be a little aggressive so becareful of what else you put into the tank. I would check at night time your collection of copepods before you get a scooter blenny. They are said to eat mysis, like mine did in the store. As soon as he hit my tank he has never once touched any type of food I have ever fed.

heres an update

added a piece of dry coral to the middle. its nice and thin and filled the middle spot nicely
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went to LFS and they told me a good beginner coral would be a frogspawn.
so i bought a small one to try it out.
i put the little rock it was on just under the sand.... is this ok or does it need to be moved onto the liverock? it does get current at the bottom (the little things move around)
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also got a fluval G6 to replace the emperor 400 HOB filter.
any suggestions for bio media that i should use?

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here you can see how much flow there is

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....50346880455567

filter media
 

you could run a good quality carbon and maybe rowaphos or chemipure

but will standard biomax media host the same bacteria thats on the LR?

how much did the G6 set you back?
I did not have good luck with a canister filter, best of luck.

i got it from another member on this forum for 180 dollars. its in great condition. just had a little trouble starting it the first time, but it works like a charm now.

why didnt you have luck with a canister filter? what was it missing?

It was contributing too much nitrates to the tank and causing massive algae outbreaks.
I battle Hair Algae for a long time, getting rid of the canister filter helped alot, and finally buying 2 mexican turbo snails beat the problem.