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Eholceker suggested I feed algae sheets with vitamins in the purple tang with the disease. I have been placing about 5 drops on the algae and letting it soak in before placing it in a tank clip every day. I believe there is some thought that activated carbon takes out many organics, including...

If you enter enough of them you are bound to win sometime. By the way this is the purple tang from eholceker that had lateral line disease you might have seen in earlier build thread posts. He told me how to nurse it back to health and it worked.

There are spider sponges that have a red sponge with zoanthids. Usually that are more

I like sponges! The appeal of a reef tank to me is the diversity you can keep and how this changes over time. After fish, sponges are now my favorite part of my reef tank, just above my shrimp, anemones and starfish. Yes, they can out-compete some corals. And I have had them clog my protein...

I don't know much about that coral. You might want to lightly baste water on the coral to see if you can flush this out from between the heads. There may be food or other debris between the heads that acts as food. If it is sponge, it should not blow off. You can get rid of a sponge by taking...

I think there is confusion with cleaning old live rock with getting live rock filled with beneficial bacteria for use as live rock in an fish tank. I feel this is because originally, many people used dying rock someone took from the ocean and had to keep it in water before use while the dead...

One of my Red Sea testers had a color that did not match the instructions. When I asked the red sea rep (he happened to be at ACC one day) he said that it had changed and neither the video or instructions had been updated yet. So I agree, when the reaction is complete, use that result.

The purple tang has gotten bigger and has been over the lateral line disease for a while. I think the vitamins have really helped. Here he is hanging out in an upper opening in the rockwork.

I don't know what type they are. The picture does not really capture how nice they looked. It was at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Most of their tanks are too dark for pictures and they don't have many reef tanks. This had a water drop tank, so there were always bubbles and I had to time...

I got some dragons breath from the Aquarium Care Center. I expected my foxface to eat it right up, but it and my tangs ignored it. Y ou might be able to keep it up high.

My understanding is that diatoms are usually the first population to explode in a saltwater tank. They were in my tank. And everyone who sees them the first time panics. Diatoms require silicon for their outer shells, which is usually more abundant in new sand, rocks and water. They generally...

Slowly but they attach to rocks as they grow. It for pull them off when they do they are not that hard to control. It takes some time for smaller sponges to get started.

I can share sponges if you want one.

It is hard to believe, but I have had this tank running for about 4 months and have had it for over half a year. The purple tang from eholceker is over the HLLE and is slightly aggressive. The layers and swim throughs allow fish to set up territories, and while not conducive to coral growth, it...

I heard it didn't cycle without a hitch!

If you wanted to or could, you could possibly pump to the swirls from the overflow and avoid the extra flow going down and the loss of pressure from lifting the water back up. And if so, you could even use a pulsing pump as it then wouldn't effect the flow down. I also don't see the advantage of...

I have 2 drains and did a modified Herbie. Definitely put a gate valve under the main syphon drain: it is hard enough to control with a gait valve, let alone a ball valve. I personally would not divert water anywhere from the syphon drain, especially before the valve as you don't want anything...

Here is an alternate thought based on my tank. When power goes off, that is the section that fills up with the overflow. Ideally, it should hold all the water that will flow down in a power loss without raising the sump (At least skimmer section) water level. Otherwise, when the power goes back...

I have been to that store and seen their live rock. It is in a separate container away from the corals, and they have some really nice large pieces. If I was starting, I would get it there. You can look at each piece in the water before hand. Plus you can brush it off and let it dry out for a...

That is more than enough. You can always turn it down if you want.