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Hi. has anyone suffered a cracked fishtank heater killing off your live stock? i found the cracked heater yesterday. i must have missed it for a day or so and now much of my tank is dead. i removed the bad heater. first of all is it the stray voltage that kills or is it chemical material...

hi anyone or all: Is anyone on the forum doing the DIY 2 part solution? http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/index.php some thing in this article doesn't make sense to me. the author states that.... "...the recipe is designed for aquarists to dose equal portions of the two parts every...

i have a question regarding commercially avaialbe calcium 2 part solutions. i think most of the commercially available liquid calcium (part 1) is calcium chloride (not calcium hydroxide). i read in some articles that when the calcium chloride is dosed, as calcium gets used up the chlorine is...

Hi Anyone.... here is question for anyone... i found my tank front glass covered with microscopic white specs yesterday after coming home from work. It was sort of like white dusting on the glass. I didnt' know what it was and have never seen that happen. i then got out my magnifying glass to...

hi fellow reefizens. i have a canopy i built that has both T5 and T8 bulbs. i have a mix of actinic, 6.5K and 10K. 6 bulb system. question is as follows. do T5s vs T8s have different change intervals? do i need a more frequent change of bulbs for T8s or T5 or are they the same. do i need to...

i'm curious about the importance of actinic. based on my reading, it simulates the lower water column lighting from the natural sun light where the depth of the water filters out all of the larger wavelength light (warmer, yellow and red colors) and leaves only the blue. If you use 10K or 20K...

Hi all. I've had my frogspawn eject polyps before. usually little bit at a time and they never survived. Just this week, it did a much larger polyp ejection and i jammed it between a couple of rubble rocks and it seems to be surviving. I think this one's going to grow out to be a head. has...

how long before the snail eggs on my glass hatches. does anyone know. i imagine they vary between species but also am thinking there is a range i can work with.... thx in adv.

hi everyone. i found a pistol shrimp at LFS and purchased it. after acclimation, i noticed it paired up right away with my yellow shrimp goby. the shrimp goby moved it's home from one location to another location in the tank where the shrimp and the goby now live together. my question is...

my frogspawn, for the first time ever, dropped off some of its flesh on the bottom on nearby live rock. since it's the first time ever, i have to ask if it's normal. is this normal? has anyone seen this? i know leather trees (kenya trees typically) drop off leaves and start a new colony. has...

has anyone ever tried feeding romaine lettuce to tangs? i tried a little piece and my tang is taking it. i wonder if this is a bad thing to do for the fish or for others (corals). would it cause nuturion spike in the water or any other problems? obviously, it wouldn't be a natural food source...

i know phyto and roti are commonly used for coral feeding but for larger polyps i've heard ppl feed larger meaty frozen foods. what is everyone/anyone's opinion on larger food choices between... 1. silversides 2. brine shmp 3. blood worms 4. cyclopeeze 5. frozen krill heard great info about...

hi. i have a question about corals sleeping at night. what would happen if you leave the lights on all night. i understand that it's unnatural b/c in the ocean they have day time and night time just like everything that inhabits this planet but.... how is it bad or what actually happens to...

anyone know what the trick is to distinguish between. curvata, echinulata, furcata is there a way to tell them apart visually. thx in adv. if you know the answer

hello fellow reefers. i am in the process of putting a tank together from planes of glass that are from a diff fish tanks. anyway, i have a question... does anyone have any experience cutting glass. i have 3/8 thick and 1/2 in thick panes. i stopped by redbank (atlantic glass) to see if they...

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what exactly is brown jelly disease and what corals are prone to it? i have 3 heads of hammer coral that i am suspecting to be down with this but i don't know enough about it. polyp seems to be retracted and all three polys just look like brownish greenish jelly. the neon green hammer heads...

hi. if you can comment on this that would help me. there was a recent thread about high levels of silicate in the tank. anyway, is the only way to remove a good amount and reduce the levels of this done thru water change over the course of several waterchanges or do some recommend using filter...

anyone here have in the past or currently keep frontosas (afrincan/tanganyika cichlids)? - i am just getting started with a batch of unsexed fry but wondering what others are doing. - i know they need lots of space and are kept in their own specie tank. i have learned that they don't like water...

are clove polyps particularly susceptible to succumbing to chemical warfare between leather and other corals? anyone know about sensitivity of clove polyps....