Thanks everyone!!!
I do have a Yasha Goby in QT right now. He has another 2 1/2 weeks in there before he'll be making the display his home. I think Yasha Gobies are sand sifters...??? Maybe once he's in there he'll clean it up better. I'll be getting a pistol for him as well. He was supposed to come with a pistol when I ordered him, but they were out so they just sent me the Goby (I was not impressed, but they gave me a killer price cut on the Goby to shut me up).
As far as flow goes, I'll try to describe my set up as good as possible. I have all my LR piled up in a line along the centre of the tank (in other words it doesn't lean against the glass anywhere other than the bottom of the tank).
I have two Maxi Jet 1200s (295 gph each) attached to my Wavemaster Pro. The PH on the left is positioned on the glass so that the output is pretty much dead centre height-wise and blows along the back of the LR. It's flow also reaches the sand along the back of the tank and keeps it free of detritus back there. The PH on the right is positioned so the output is about 3" from the water surface and is pointed at an angle towards the water surface, but also towards the back pane of glass. The way I have the powerheads set up right now is the only way I have been able to set them BOTH up at the same time without disturbing the expansion of my LPS and softie corals. Any other way I have tried to position the PHs has caused too much flow which makes it so my Xenia won't pulse, and my bubble coral won't expand all the way. The way they are positioned blows all the detritus to the front of the tank which is unsightly, but easy to siphon out during waterchanges.
So maybe I need to get 3 or 4 smaller Maxi-Jets? Maybe MJ400s? That way I'd be able to position a couple along the front to blow the detritus away there too and hopefully keep it suspended then...? However, I am concerned that even the MJ400s in such a small tank would bother my LPS being so close to them.
As far as pods go...I have a TONNE of them right now! I have been feeding my tank regularly with DT's Phyto and their population has exploded. I was thinking about the cucumbers...I am a bit worried about it dying though! I am told that my tank is too small for even the small conchs; that one would eventually starve in my tank. Thoughts? I have researched the Cleaner Shrimp and am undecided...I have read that they are hit or miss when it comes to bothering corals.
Also, I do not want a DSB. The tank is small enough as it is, I can't be using up more gallons with sand... or are you just suggesting that I should make use of the sandbed critters that are used in DSBs??
