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see what im wondering is i have the thing that looks liek the champion lighting can i just rip that open disconnect and cut the old ballast out and put the new one it soldering the power wires- what i dont get is how can they see a ballast with out that white connector piece when i cant seem to...

Hey, my friend was nice enough to give me some vho endcaps wired together with a white connector on the end that goes into a ballast. His ballast was not working so thats why i have it now the ballast doesn't have any writing on it and looks exactly like this...

Jrod i know how you feel i was going to take a baseball bat to the tank if it wasn't for some members on here giving me help. Thank god my fish are still happy- if they ever died i think i would take a break. The way i see it is wih less stuff in the tank you can make those changes to the...

yeah veryy true- i would like to know who has the money to spend on a wild colony from expensive stores that have a slime chance of living?id liek you have your job

even if we stoped buying corals taken from the ocean i dont think the stores would stop stocking them : / so i think people buying them gives a better chance and also a better luck to discover a gem and find a nice name for :)

hah yeah if my tank was doing well i would have bought a wild colony from tropaquarium- with reeftoreptiles across the street they have 2 nice colonies of a mixx between pink lemonade and a microladus for only 80 bucks : / can you belive that its in the giant colony section for only 80 bucks : /.

lol your to kind greg, but as on now tank is in a waiting period i snipped all dead pieces in hopes some will recover- now the hobby is a waiting game, i wouldn't wanto add more corals with ones still dyeing in fear that the dieing ones could cause a chain reaction. greg ill give you a call in...

yeah even tho i havent seen his tank in person it seems every time i see pics of it everything grew liek 4 inches- can you put these pics in his thread by any chance will help to show growth shots : )

only bad thing is one store got 5-10 nitrates so a. this could be the problem .b. was caused by the problem. which ever it is all i need to know is i need to get it down just dont know how much weekly water-changes i should do i think imma stick with 12 gallons the corals are kind of used to...

hey greg i was trying to get in touch with you- thx for the offer- hows the blue millie doing? also yeah the zoas are loving the bottom of my tank-also that red macro algae i have in my sump is growing in very nicely. this swing happened awhile ago like superbowl sunday or even before. I have...

hah yeah iv never had a problem with my fish and for some reason the clams haven't show any signs of anything they are acting normal : / do you guys think if i put a healthy sps frag in my system to show if something else is in the water? if it dies then its not from the alk swing?

after my alk spike the tips started burning but i have my parameters stable for more then a week now and yet still healthy ones show the signs of failure lol. stinks because i lost my pink watermelon chalice and now my miami hurricane chalice is receding. I know restocking would be fun but i...

I was wondering who here has had there tank decline greatly or even crashed and has found a way to survive it and continue and not give up. A month ago my alk spikes with a wc and ever since then sps have been declining its so hard to watch frags that you payed so much for and grew since they...

dang those anthias look so good in there. that should look spectacular when everything grows in. i love the vibrant anemone in there.

ok then no need to be alarmed then- these are kinda like coral intestines and aid in the capturing and absorbing food. if you brow on them they will slowly retract inside the coral. no need to worry there sensing food and searching for it.

Start by checking magnesium- as i have learned magnesium is pretty much the balance board that holds everything together. make sure your magnesium readings are correct. i know calcium has something to do with ph due to excess c02 in the water. this is what you do- add alk part of the 2 part a...

there is 2 things im thinking of- theres slime and then thee are white stings that look like threads. The white threads come out when food, or your hands, or epoxy goes into the tank. the strings come out when anything goes in the tank and they search for food. Now the slime which is a foamy...

emerald crabs all the way- love the stuff- and never touch the corals if you get the real emerald crabs.

your corals like to take up alkalinity at a faster rate then calcium- you will just have to add more alkalinity over the week.

this hobby is so weird there are so many factors that contribute to coral color i have learned that the same lighting is the easiest thing to match. I once had the same exact halide setup as someone and when i saw there tank the bulbs ran different colors. I think it is do to the fact that the...