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What inverts would you sugget for a clean up crew on a 75 gallon reef.
I am thinking red legged hermits, cerith snails, and ?? I am going to order from liveaquaria.com


Thanks
Travis

I am 14 in michigan and I love this hobby. My first aquarium was a 20 gallon fresh water tank that somebody let me borrow when I was 11.

less than a year after that I got a 75 gallon fresh water tank off craigslist.

about a year and a-half ago somebody offered me a 75 gallon aquarium with stand, light, 200 pounds of dried out rock, and a sump with a return pump and an internal overflow box. Since it had everything for a saltwater ...

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I was recently inspired by a Reef Central thread, Salt Water Mixing Stations Let's See Them, to redo the way I mix saltwater. My goal was to make it easier to perform water changes by having a built in pump to send water upstairs to my tank rather than lugging buckets up and down the steps. Honestly that is my biggest deterrence to doing water changes, so if I can make them easier to perform, I will do them more frequently.

This is the design I wanted to make. It would allow me to ...

Ok everyone just starting the build but I just got the most important part today.

150g (60 x 24 x 25)


now the new skimmer


Ok so its been a week or so since I updated this thread, so here are some updated pics.

I am building my stand out of 1.5" steel tubing with a wall thickness of 3/16. ...

Well, I had to work a lot both before and during the event, so I was tired. I was happy to see so many happy people though. We had over 300 people attend, and I got a couple of new corals. I need to post up a bunch of images, and promise too.