Recent content by mnat

Looks like purple bonsai to me.

Welcome back Joe, that is a beauty of a tank.

Always have purple stylo available. I can give you a piece. Very beginner corals and has been through a lot in our tank

Merry Christmas

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So its been a little while and wanted to give an update and a new picture. Here is the tank and yes we added the canopy and went with 3 radion G4s in the canopy. So far pretty happy with them and just running the pre programmed AB+ lighting program. Started it at 40% and moved up to 43% so we...

Yeah, grab a pair of coral cutters and cut the tube down low, they can annoy and kill corals over time and spread around your tank.

When Kevin Kohen left, it was not going to last long, but man I will miss that site. They had really good information on just about every fish in the hobby. I used to love getting the email that Divers Den was going up and seeing what cool fish they would bring in.

The cycling your rocks would have helped get the phosphates and other nasty stuff out. Yes they have the bacteria but they are still probably leaching the other stuff into your tank, hence the hair algae.

Generally people will "cycle" rocks before they use them. Clean them up and then run them in a container with salt water and add a bacterial source to get them cycled and loaded up with beneficial bacteria. It can also help get the phosphates and other nasty stuff out of the rocks (this can...

I would be down for a grabber

ATI has always had amazing hardware and terrible software.

Honestly with that sort of infestation, I would either recycle the rocks or replace them. The rocks could be leeching the phosphates, so no matter what you do it will come back. Its a small tank and would be pretty easy to replace, we had to do it on a 205 and it was a process to say the least.

Get the new tank Phil! Just kidding, glad to see the tank is still running and good luck with the fix, sounds like you are taking the right approach.

We typically always keep mushrooms low, but for some reasons these jawbreakers do better in the top half of our tank. We have had them up that high for years now an they continue to do well. We also have one basically on our sand bed and it is also doing amazing, so I guess it comes down to a...