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I have the algae growing and no other algae grows in my tank- my phosphates are uber low and everything else is zero- i have the algae in my tank and as long as theres a tiny piece of it somewhere in a rock its going to grow as long as it gets light. Even if the nutrients were so low i bet this...

only crab that i ever had that does damage is my 3 blue knuckle hermits- which is good damage they frag stuff for me and decorate. As long as you dont buy a crab thats labeled as a green emerald crab and looks like a giant fuzzy gorilla hah i think you should be fine.

Hah, i need a boat, i love fishing but only get to do freshwater fishing.

oh - well just to say thats probably the only thing that will take it off- i have the crap in my tank- i bought 3 emerald crabs that are picking it off right now- they havent been picking at my corals yet- hopefully they dont.

Its brown waffer algea- a few emerald crabs will take care of it - thats what is taking care of mine- once they learn its there and they are strong enough to peel the slipper film off the rock they should clear it off.

Its a galaxia coral for sure- way more dangerous then start polpys.

hopefully they dont find anything that people would use for bad things- then there would be banned on corals and stuff i think.

hah i think any metal halide ballast or ho ballast gets hot- i used to have mine sitting in a circuit box- i had really old ones that i sticked my finger in the magentic coils one time and got a 250 watt shocki it was an intersting felling

ok the salinity is bassicly the only thing you can control when getting saltwater from places- like if fishtales hasnt repalces there ro membranes for 3 years id probably wanna spend the money and go to trop.

when dealing with purchasing water from stores it all depends on how there ro-di system is- if it hasnt been maintained and had the filters cleaned then the water will have a high tds- each store will have varoius results and there is kind of no way to tell because the tds meeters usualy only...

i cant wait to see what she makes- a guy at macna had his own rocks he hand made from ceramic or something that he kiln dried- they were great i wish they were cheaper- they had perfict caves/ crevices holes for mounting frags-i cant wait to see what nice creations she makes- you are gonna have...

very nice mike the couple look very happy- what camera did you get?

i use the good old muscle and water jug system- hasnt failed me yet :)

it may be alot to digest and think about with the hobby but once you read some articles on everything you learn allloooootttttt an some stuff seems easier but the number 2 rules is dont give up- and only thing that happens fast in a fish tank are bad things.

even thought that they all have to o with each other doesn't mean that if one is at a level then the other isnt automatically at another- my ph stays at 8.1 but my alk can shift from 7 to 12 and my calcium can go from 350 to 450 and my ph could still be locked in at 8.1-i think its baking soda...

yeah thats normal kinda- no test kit is perfict every time there are small things that contribute to inaccuracy- i use salifert and every test kit of salifert i use is accurate like they should be +-.3(each bottle is diff)

i my self have never had a problem with them- i had the red ones big ones small ones- never really did major damage to corals frags here and there but that just makes the corals grow faster. I have them to pick any brown waffer algea that has accumulated over the time- while they are small they...

ro-di water has simple elements but the main ones you need is in the freshly made salt water(its in the salt mix mainly). I was just saying look into two part because if you ever run into alk spikes from the water change a two part might be good to use in between water changes- just trying to...

instead of drawing 4 ml of tank water take the water needed from the little bottle- what is written on that bottle should be the measure of how much drops is needed to get the color to change- that was has a specific alkalinity of ***

look up two part dosing and testing your water- you might soon run into calcium problems when those corals take off.