Recent content by Ben

@jgraz what do you mean by filtration? do i need more rocks? or add matrix or other live rock substitute? or are you talking about my skimmer being insufficient? hmm... BRS said mixing GFO and Carbon will keep GFO from clumping and I can put it in my HOB... there's plenty of flow going...

@diana a it's been 6 months and here's some additional details. the 29 gallon is stocked with 3 clownfish, 1 yellow tang, chromis, blue velvet damsel, six line wrasse, yellow watchman goby, pistol shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp, rbta, and green bta. i also only have 10 lbs of live rock so...

I have GHA growing slowly and some algae growing on my frags. I'm running carbon and GFO in a bag, but I still get algae growth. I'm pretty sure nitrates are low but the phosphates are the problem. I'm using the API test kits (yeah, I know), and I have 0-5ppm nitrates and under 0.25ppm...

what benefit does the living bacteria in clams provide?

wow, that's a huge sump! can't wait to see how this one turns out!

I'll try to stop by if I can. Sounds fun!

Ah, sorry for late reply. $15 to cross bridge kills the deal for me. Will you be on the NJ side at all? Maybe that will make it worth it. :)

Ok, normal is good! Thanks Diana! Do the purple spots look like Coralline to you?

Should I be worried about these brown spots?

Painted the back of the tank yesterday without moving the tank (had about 4 inches of space). It was so painful but it turned out well. I'm starting to see some Coralline algae spots and brown spots on the rocks and substrate. Diatoms? Should I be worried? I'm using RO water (no DI) and...

Looking for a healthy Rose Bubble Tip Anemone that's big enough to host clownfish without getting smothered. I'm in Piscataway. Within 20-30 mins from here would be nice. This is my first WTB thread so hopefully I did it right.

interested in your Rainbow BTA. Where are you located?

My water parameters right now: Salinity: 1.026 pH: 8.0 Ammonia: <0.2 ppm Nitrite: 0.50 ppm Nitrate: 0 ppm I'm using Seachem Stability (daily) and Seachem Prime (every other day). Supposedly Prime detoxifies ammonia and nitrite and nitrate for at least 24-48 hours so the fish should be ok. Do...

Added 3 more clownfish, a turbo snail and 2 nassarius snails. The snails were an impulse buy... I don't know if they have anything to eat in my tank! The clownfish were part of the same tank at Petco. I moved all clownfish into a bucket and had them hang out there while I rearranged the tank...

Thanks for the affirmation that it takes time to break in the hob skimmer. I contacted Seachem but didn't hear back from them. It's been 2 days.