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Can you guide me as to what this critter is?

Ok. I'm in the middle of building my stand for the 200g DD. Am I crazy of is 43" way too tall for the stand height? I would like to make it so people don't have to bend down too far to see the sand bed action, at the same time I want a sturdy stand. Let me know what you think! Thanks. No pics yet. I will try to get some up asap!

Tested again today.

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate .5

It's time to flip some ball valves and get the water circulating through the entire system. Jon's out on the deck finishing up the plumbing for our new aquaponics system, so once he's done with that..... Slap some filter socks onto the ends of pipes and get that baby flowing!!!!!

First off, sorry for the poor pictures.. I really need one of those fancy cameras like marc has... I swear people with cameras like that and the know-how to use them can make anything look amazing.



So my switch over to a reef tank has had a few bumps... I've lost some corals (mainly acro's... which I've heard may be from chemical warfare thanks to the nephtya) but it's really starting to shape up. Water parameters have been rock solid for the past 4 weeks, and I'm even ...

I got a test kit the other day (Wal-Mart-Saltwater-Jungle Labortories Corp. I will get a better test kit soon!) because I want to take reading every day so I will know whats going with my tank. Please let me know if how the reading are and what I can do to make them better. I'm new to taking saltwater readings so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Here are the reading from this morning.

5/17/10-Tank Readings

Nitrate; 40 ppm

Nitrite: 1.0 ...