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just an update for anyone reading on what survived and what did not. survivors: - one head (baby head that split off) of green frogspawn. - couple of heads of pink frogspawn. - green toadstool leather - green/yellow devil's hand leather. - a few diff types of mushrooms - few heads of candy cane...

with grounding probe setup, your corals were okay? much of my stonies montis are faded in color as if they are dead or in the process of death. same with my LPS frogspawn and candycane they have severly retracted. my leathers devils hand spaghetti are limp and faded. noticed that leather is...

thanks for your tips. ah. that makes sense. running carbon. i'll do that tonight and let it run for a couple days.

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...

if it does then you just dip in it again.... doesn't seem too hard to fix

i think i gotcha. thanks again. someday. i'll understand it all better than i do now.... take it easy. so far i understand your explanation.

hey boomer. one more question. with respect to this topic. is it accurate to say that only part 2 (alkalinity buffer) has an immediate and direct effect on pH thus requiring dosing at a slow rate? in other words, is it even necessary to dose calcium chloride at a slow rate? i think it is...

wow. i didn't know i wanted to argue with that author.... it seemed he knew his stuff. i'm not sure where the dosing 2 parts on diff day comes from. who came up with that i wonder. i'm infact getting prepped buying the dowflakes etc per his instruction instead of the liquid bottles i've been...

right . premix is no good. it will precipiate and be unusable by corals. JRwholer. i didn't know that bit of info. i'm going to not dose the sump.... from now on. and thanks for your reply to my other thread. i still don't understand why but maybe that's the right way to do it..... hmm.

i'm no expert as i have a similar question out on this as well... so i think the idea of the separate dosing is the following. if you let part1 and part2 mix in the same area immediately, much of what you have dosed will react with each other and create milky-cloudy calcium carbonate that...

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 see. bryopsis seems it can be a number of diff algae. 2 primaries being. derbesia and plumosa. looks like derbesia appears more like hair algae and plumosa seems more like a fern leaf... interesting. thanks.

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...

if you survive this and wind up staying in the hobby. maybe consider vodka dosing...? i currently have hair algae as do you.... trying to keep it in check with vodka dosing, more freq water change and lights. as you, i lost some of my corals but i don't think it was directly related to the...

i dun think it will hurt any of your softies... and through eventual waterchanges the calcium should prolly come down a bit.... remember with your softies there is no need to 2 part dose your system. just regular water change intervals should be fine. if that still makes your calcium high then...