Thanks a lot kristy, Your input is very much appricated as your nice comments are. You are right, my tank used to be booming with hundreds to thousands of copopods... the last manderian cleaned up almost all of them. I do have a 12 gallon nano tank that is loaded with them and occasionally I toss a rock from there into my refuge to get the population going again. I watch him eat very small things off the rocks and I hope he's getting enough. But I think I will invest in buying a bunch of them just to make sure. The flame scallop I had no Idea about, it was very cheap at the store and I impulse bought it. In one of my first tanks I bought a goniopora and it lasted about 9 months before the polyps wouldnt extend, it was a green one, I dont know its full name. I learned then about how hard they are to keep, and bought this one at the pet shop for pretty cheap... I figured since I have a new tank with much more stable conditions then it might make it with some feeding. I also have hurd that they survive better in a skimmerless tank and a bunch of other stuff, which is wierd because i think my original one did better when I didnt have a skimmer and was using some dimmer lighting off a 250 watt MH xm20k bulb with less flow. I dont know I'd hate to lose it but I guess all I can do is try. Once again thanks a lot for the comments and advice!