I have a red sea max also. I really love it :snshne: . I like the fact that the timer automatically turns on the 2 leds when it turns off the daylights. I have a royal gramma, several hermits, snails, and a donor emerald (he hitchhiked with the l/r). I have just added this week a nice candy cane, one polyp of xenia, and a seed of zoa. I have had mine set up for 16 days and the only thing to spike was nitrates. They hit 10ppm by the 4th day of operation but everything has checked 0 for the past week or so. The skimmer works great (if you read the directions correctly, I read them wrong the first time and had it set up wrong until 7/15; set it up on 7/03) duh. I will post pics soon under reef chronicles titled Forstral's Red Sea Max Adventures. That way everyone can see how it is progressing.