The Sink or Swim Method!

[Barrie]

Thanks for the we;come and opinions you guys, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I do believe we'll be getting a skimmer this weekend. I personally am all for the simple skimerless method but as my wonderful husband is the one who does the maintenance and 'fiddling' with all our tanks, I will defer to him on this one. He's absolutely immersed in the research and LOVES all the technical crap that bores me to tears!!! LOL Fortunately (well probably UNfortunately for our bank account!) we live close enough to J&L Aquatics that we can go into town this weekend and get a half decent HOB skimmer. With all the other noise in this room, what's one more gadget?

I'm glad to hear about the dosing, though I know once he's done the research we'll be progressing there eventually too but in the meantime we probably won't kill anything.

There's a frag swap in Vancouver next weekend I think - should we go or would it be too soon to even consider adding a frag or two (remember this is all cured rock and whatnot - though we did just add the clowns this week).