Hi! And where do you shop mid-island??

[emeraldeyes_bc]

Oooooh I would love a hammer, frogspawn, or Zoa's

Hi Wayne, thanks for the response. The tank is a 25g, It's been cycling a couple weeks. I started it with 20lb live rock, and 10lbs dry/10lbs live rock, dropped a shrimp in there for a few days until it smelled lol.
The spike actually came and went quite quickly, I'm guessing because of all the live additions? ....I'm a bit obsessive and check parameters at least once a day . all readings have been 0's a week now and the diatoms have set in (why I'm wondering about some cleaners)
I've also read a lot of mixed thoughts about what to do with diatoms? Let them play out? Clean them?

And yes, this is technically my sons tank...however, it's purpose is to be a relaxing spot for him to sit and relax/watch (as I said he has SPD/ASD) so I wanted to go in the direction of a reef with rhythmical movement, colours, a couple slow moving interesting to watch things.
I'm already watching C/L for a good deal on a larger set up

And trust me, I sit and watch that empty tank WAY more than I probably should lol I've already pulled one gorilla crab out of a rock and brought him back to the LFS

[Dearth]

There is a split on CuC some people like me love crabs and snails others will go on a rampage killing as soon as they find them I have 9 blue legged hermits and 3 red legged hermits along with about a dozen snails and as far as I am concerned bring colour and idiosyncryes to the tank.

That is not to say all CuC is safe some of both species can be very destructive to your coral/fish/inverts again it is a personal choice J&L have excellent packages and can help you with choices. On the other hand you can run without snails and crabs and still have an awesome tank again its a personal choice