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Once your kole is fully acclimated it will quickly become one of your favorites. they are are great additions to any tank. awsome algae eaters get along great with most anything else and look good too. feed it a variety of veggie food, mysis, algae sheets etc. soaking your food in garlic will...

duncans are not like sun corals. they will do well in light alone but will realy grow if you feed them.

10ks are generally pretty white. xms can sometimes have a very slight yellow hue but give excellent par ratings. that is why you would supplement with t-5 actinics. 14k and above you can run as stand alone bulbs. no supplementation needed. most will run some blues w/ 14s or better mainly for...

one ice cap 430 will run 4 bulbs up to 330 watts.....

as far as pc's go they are crap compared to t5's. (sorry dont know how to candy coat that) if it was my setup I would replace the halides for 10k xms( best par rating other than an ushio 6500k) for growth. then I would replace the pc ballast for an icecap 430 and run 4 t5 bulbs. they can be a...

if the baby heads are under the main polyps its a good chance that they will be light starved as the parent grows. very similiar to frgspawn when fragging. you can get a small craft chisel set from a hobby shop and carefully chisel under the polyp taking some of the branch with the baby. once...

maybe you could try target feeding with some phyto or something along those lines.... they would probably do realy well in a mud fuge..

anyone know where to get cheap acrylic sheets. 3/8 or 1/2"

some zoos are like that. i had a colony that took months to color back up. ive had some look realy sweet and then change to some funky color within days. those are starting to look realy nice.

hey single how are you making out?

smell it, feel it and look for the extensions.......sorry couldnt resist... ;D

where is this is roadking still up?

if this is only on a couple of rocks remove them and scrub them off. you can do this at water change. shake the rock in the water you take out realy good. get all the crud off of it. it sounds like you have alot of flow but it may be directed poorly. make sure your rockwork is open and not...

poconos here

corals that are always expanded is not a sign that the coral is doing good. usually expanded shrooms are seeking more light. it may be that it is just back to the size that its intended to be under the correct light.