I think I'm done. Famous last words, I know. I added a hob refugium
because I couldn't have the sump/refugium I wanted in the too small
cabinet. I didn't really need it because the mandarin is quite plump,
but in the spirit of not leaving well enough alone, I added it. I'd
like to think the obsessive stage of this tank is over and I can simply
enjoy it now. Everything seems okay and the only thing I wasn't happy
with were the maxi jet 900s that seemed to blowing corals right off
their rocks, but I turned them both upwards and I hope the sparse star
polyps will now proliferate after their excessive exercise. Oddly
enough, this little sal****er tank seems to require less attention than
my other tanks, certainly fewer and less extensive water changes and
almost no window cleaning. If you have dial-up don't even try to open
the page:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/...Stuff/SW7.html

rtk

(the light seems very bright because I cheated and put a tungsten lamp
on each side of the tank for its portrait. The lamps are back in place
in the room and the tank looks as you expect with 2x65 pc + I don't know
how much pc over the hob refugium - 18? 36?- it's coralite 20" single.)