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  1. I was a member 8-10 years ago. I have a 125G (6 ft) Reef with home-brew VHO lighting and a basement sump of about 70G. Recently, I saw a nice looking saltwater aquarium as I was visiting my mother at a rehab center. It made me ashamed of the poor condition of my tank, so I came home and started cleaning out the clumps of hair algae and did a good siphon cleaning of the gravel. I replaced the old tired VHO lights and hood with 3 Chinese LED fixtures of 165 watts each. I keep them dimmed to about 1/3 power. I bought from Premium Aquatics 4 long-spine urchins to eat the remaining algae and a Raccoon Butterfly fish to eat the Majano anemonies. I drip-acclimated the butterfly and left him in the sump so I could introduce him using an isolation chamber thing I made so the current occupants could see, but not eat, him. He was dead the next morning. The urchins, which were also drip-acclimated, lasted 2 days. I found spines in the gravel. I assume the &^%$(%#$$@$ Tomato Clown my grandson bequeathed to me ate them. I had noticed the TC nibbling on spines of a previous batch of much larger LS urchins a few years back, but was too stupid to link that with their later disappearance. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to kill/capture this ravenous beast? I tried a trip-door fish trap, a rubber-band powered harpoon, and a remote string purse net. I rejected dynamite and hand grenades. I have a 7" Yellow Tang, a 7" Blue Tang, a 3" Clownfish, a couple of Yellowtail Blue Damsels, and the Tomato Clown from the bowels of hell. The only surviving corals are 1 very small Kenya Tree and 1 Leather that kinda resembles a toadstool mushroom with many tiny polyps on it's top surface. There are a couple of hundred pounds of home-made arched slab stones (oystershell and white concrete) and 50 or so pounds of tree-branch coral skeleton. The stones are all arranged to create a labyrinth of small caves and cubbyholes for the fish to swim through and hide in. Makes it completely impossible to catch anything faster than a snail. Put a net in the water and PRESTO! what fish? I don't see any. Update: I just turned on the lights to take some photos (which I can't figure out how to attach) and found 2 of the urchins. Maybe they just come out at night to graze. Thus, avoiding being grazed on. If I tear down the tank, all the live rock will become dead, rotting rock. If I somehow kill all the Majano at once, the deep sandbed (with plenum) wouldn't be able to handle the sudden die-off. I am at a loss for how to proceed. HHHHHH EEEEEEEEEEEE LLLLLLLLLLLL PPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!! Please. John I figured out how to attach.
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