Top 5 Mistakes
1. Watching xenia, glove polpys and gsp grow off their rocks
2. Not removing hitchhiker crabs at first site + adding emerald crabs
3. Waiting a day to re-attach the frag that fell over and not using enough super-glue (I now use a whole tube for every frag)
4. Assuming that the circuits wont trip when adding 800 watts of light and not having a backup plan.
5. lack of battery powered air pumps for power outages. I lost 1/2 my tank last Oct after 5 days without power.
Oh yeh - FORGETTING TO LEVEL THE TANK AND BRACE THE FLOOR BEFORE FILLING IT. (I did this twice)
5 best things
1. temperature controller
2. Having a spare return pump
3. joining RC
4. Putting the sump in the basement
5. R/O with DI and auto shut-off
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