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Why add live sand? You can just as easily add dry sand and let it become live. An easy way to add sand to an existing system without making a huge mess is to use a length of 4 inch diameter PVC pipe that is slightly taller than the tank. Stand the pipe up in the tank with the end resting on...

More miss than hit, unfortunately. 90% of folks that try dwarf seahorses as their first seahorse have total losses after about 3 months. They require 3-4 feedings a day of enriched 2-3 day old brine shrimp. Water parameters can be a huge nightmare in a tank that small as any fluctuation is going...

It's not just you. See if you can take it back to the LFS for credit or an exchange.

It's not just any sponge, they only feed on certain types of sponges. You would need to know where it was collected to even begin to try and figure out which species of sponge it would feed on.

That was cyano bacteria. Valonia is little ball shaped algae. Each bubble is an individual algae that usually grows in clusters.

No there is re species of valonia(bubble algae). It isn't nearly as invasive as the green one is. It is actually a rather pretty macro algae, I have deliberately put it in a few of my tanks. It is totally different from red slime algae which is actually a cyano bacteria and not even an algae.

Can you get a picture? What are your water parameters? Are the spots that look like they are dying, what color are they?

Keep the caulerpa trimmed and it won't go sexual. It only goes sexual when folks throw it in the fuge and forget about it.

1. codium 2. ulva 3 looks like a sargassum species They are all good, but if you are looking for something that will grow quickly and remove a lot of nutrients those aren't the best macros for that.

Calcium of 1300? At that level the cloudiness would be the Ca precipitating out of the water.

I get it too. It is just some calcium that precipitates out of the salt as it is dissolving. I clean my barrel out usually after 2-3 batches of water. Little bit of warm water and vinegar takes it right out.

I can usually get a 4-6 degree drop in temperature with fans.

The dragon faced take pretty easily to frozen cyclop-eze and frozen mysis. If you have to buy live foods for them it is going to get expensive fast. Your best bet is to set them up in a bare bottom QT tank when you first get them and get them trained to frozen foods before they go into your...

Well most folks can't fit a garbage bag in their sump and two most household garbage bags are treated to keep down odors and bacteria. I wouldn't trust putting them in any part of my tank. Just a couple 1 or 2 gallon size Ziploc bags will do. You can also use frozen water bottles too and they...

I try to keep mine under 80-81. I've gone as high as 83 with no issues though.

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Relax if you want to today. You deserve it. The lights not going anywhere.

Stop adding it and see if your alk goes down. As long as your levels are good you don't need to add Purple Up to your tank. The coralline will take off on it's own. If you want I can give you some more coralline scrapings to add to the tank when you come to get the light.

Are you adding anything such as kalk or 2 part additives?

Frozen cyclop-eze, decapsulated artemia cysts, frozen or live artemia and rotifers. They need zooplankton along with the phytoplankton.