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Joe, you should be able to unscrew those barb fittings and replace them with threaded to slip PVC fittings. That will allow you to use PVC pipe instead of the hose.

Looked like epoxy when I was there the other day. Maybe Mike can chime in and let us know for sure.

I highly doubt it's chemical related from the leathers. He only has 3 and they are all less than 2 inches in size. I have seen the tank in person and his other SPS are all showing growth. Anyone think it may be a result of being burned by the epoxy?

Premnas biaculeatus Gold stripe marron clownfish. Gorgeous fish, Danny. I am interested to see if it develops the other stripes.

I tired to give you Ca supplements yesterday. :) Why not just make your own Alk supplement? All you need is some baking soda and either RO or distilled water. Recipe 1 part 2 is what you want. http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/index.php

You can order it from Air Water and Ice. They sell it by the foot or in rolls of 100 feet. http://www.airwaterice.com/product/TUBING14/Tubing_14.html They also have the 3/8" for $.20 a foot.

That looks like 2 very relaxed and content people there.

My favorites are: "Seahorses don't really exist." "Those things (corals) are real?" "I didn't know nemo lived in fresh water."

Just set that hex tank up in a corner and you can get them. :D

Not a problem. That's what we are here for. Don't get too caught up in the whole chemical warfare stuff, your tank is doing fine, just gonna have a tough time with SPS is all.

Cloves are fine. It really only effects SPS corals. I have LPS, zoas, cloves, xenia, snails, hermits and shrimp in my leather dominated tank and they are all fine.

Jay, Yes your shrimp and other inverts will be fine. It doesn't have an effect on anything but other corals.

I know what you're saying. I tried the mixing myself and it didn't work. I just set up another tank for my son so that he can keep the SPS for me. :D Yes zoas will be fine. Here's a pic of my tank from a few months ago to give ya an idea of why I had problems. It has since filled in a lot more...

Nope you need to keep the food frozen until fed out. Frozen foods are only good for about an hour at best once thawed. After that they start to break down and rot. I know of a couple people that were working on an auto feeder just for frozen foods but the prototypes were really expensive to build.

You can mix them in a tank that size if you only have 1 or 2 leathers. It's more about the SPS to leather ratio than it is the volume. If you want to mix then you really need a SPS dominated tank with a few small leathers, not the other way around. LPS and leathers are fine together but SPS need...

You would actually be surprised as to how much heat is generated by your pumps and even PC's and T5's. Even with an ambient room temperature of 70-71 degrees you will still see and 4-5 degree increase in temperature with the lights and pumps running. Of course you can keep the temp down with...

What's a vacation? I haven't gone away for more than a weekend since I started keeping seahorses 5 years ago. Even then I have someone come in a feed them for me.

Mark as has been mentioned, it's not uncommon for leathers to close up for days or even weeks. Just keep an eye on it.

Sounds like it could be chemical warfare with all those leathers in a small tank like that. Also please test your parameters. If you are dosing and not checking you very well could throw the values out of whack. Plus if you only have softies in the tank and do regular water changes you should...

Thanks Phil, actually occelaris isn't even in the guide yet as we didn't have pictures of it at the time. The rules apply to all species of clown though. Clown are merely damsels in fancy clothes. I keep tropical gobies and other peaceful fish and even corals with my seahorses and all do fine...