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I have spikes that grow all over my live rock is this normal? what is this how can I prevent it?

Its strange its like a stringy brown but doesnt appear to be hair algae. Its annoying cause it gets on my coral and rock and i hvae to move a power head to it and then it comes right off. When its on the glass its like a spider web. If i could ever figure out how to post pictures on here i would...

using reef crystals

I finally got a tds meter the water going in to my ro is 201ppm the water coming out is 1ppm. Good? my question is i get this brown kinda spider web looking stuff on my glass and on my rock. its not thick and takes a few days to be visible. But its annoying and if i let it go for 3-4 days i...

bob let me know if still avail i can stop bye tomorrow

I have lots of zoas dendro that eats like a pig, duncans that do the same. My bta just split 2 days ago and they are both eating like crazy. I dont have alot of coral other than that. Fish i have a scooter blenny,yellow and hippo tank and 2 perc clowns. Ph 8.0 Temp 78.9-80.1 varies

cal 550 alk 10.2 trate 0 amm 0 mag ? It went from mh's and good flow to my tnak which is good flow and 2 400w mh's I put it low and it was doing great. Then the day before it shrived up then boom completely gone this morning

I picked up a decent size frag of some green and purple hammer frog spawn about 2 weeks ago. It has been doing great in my tank. Then within 24 hours it shrivelled up and died. I have no clue what could have happened everything in my tank is doing great my paramateres are on point no sure what...

I came home last night after not really being around for 2 days and found little bubles all over the glass. These were just little clear air bubbles that went away when I cleaned the glass but does this mean anything?

I am not running carbon should I? Also I am using one of those electric thermometers I have had problems with them in the past also What is a good therm to use

Did the water change. Sg is at about 1.25 now but ive hear these swing arm hydrometers are off about .04 so i might be higher. Maybe I should get a refract and a tds meter anyone know a good place?

in my sump/fuge i have seen some not really in the tank

filters are about 6-8 months old and I do not have a tds meter maybe i should get one?

I'm going to do a 15 galoln water change just r/o water no salt to bring down the sg

Nothing new other then the dendro. Also why would that brown algae start again? The skimmer pulls alot each day.

They are new test kits. I tested with my old one and my new one both being salifert.

78.8 before halides kick on and about 80.1 when they are on

My tank was running great for months no all of a sudden im having the following problems Zoa's half are opening and there not opening fully Slimer and acros turned brown and now are turning white Caps developing white stripes almost like bleaching and becoming very pale not bright colors...

Thanks I am a dope

Yes sorry guys I meant my SG is 1.031 if not higher. I have been using 1.026 r/o saltwater as my top off maybe this could be my problem? I did a 20 gallon water change last night and got it down to 1.027-1.028. I am also using a hydrometer maybe I should get a refract to test?