hey hey hey now......85%? Nah im just messin hes got more info than about 95% haha. After you start reefing and holding these precious creatures over time. Drop a couple grand......and you really start appreciating what you do and what nature is. I used to mess with my tank every day....and now I dont touch it....I let it take its course.....and watch. I look at it probably 2 hours a day. And your probably thinking..........What the FU@# could you watch for 2 hours every day. My clowns are starting to get all lovey dovey......they lay down on my sand bed at night and sleep. My scooter buries himself everynight and my six line wrasse incases himself in a bubble and lays on the bottom.......he looks dead....but he gets up every morning. Corals are growing at explosive rates....every weak i notice a few new heads on my zoos. I had four new heads pop up on my mean green this week. But basically......schigara is protective.......as all of us are. My lfs has a shark in his tank........but its a 500 gallon frag tank. so its his whole back room. Plenty of room for him to swim. I feel bad for having four fish in my 29 gallon. Its way too much....I shouldnt have but two at the most. You can push the envelope with your tank........just dont make your inhabitants suffer.

of course they do...fish are greedy little bastards. I could feed my fish for 10 minutes and they wouldnt slow down. I feed 4-8 small pellets per fish daily. Or I throw a cube of brine shrimp in every other day.

you know i coulda swore we had this converstaion when he was thinking about getting the shark, i think that most of us told him not to... oh well

Other than having high nitrates, I am sure the small shark is fairing quite well for now.

Usually, aquarists learn how to control simple things like nitrates before they attempt to keep more difficult things like LPS, SPS corals and sharks or rays, etc..

Minimum tank sizes are usually very under rated by retailers, which is where most get their information about tank size requirements.