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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...

im using the one you posted up- works great- just take the di chambers and hang them vertical- when they are laying horizontal the water only travels through like only a part of the media.

she ran the normal ballast that camewith the tek and was around 4 inches off the water

+ 1 on the hyndrophora

i remember a thread on reef central- i think it was posted from old guy, his carbon got rusty and cause everything in his tank to slowly die.

wouldnt it just speard the spores?

Jeeze you have been layin low for awhile- letting everything grow out? Can i get some more pics? I dont have the skill with chalices liek you do still got one eye and minimal growth.

yes, what was your parameters on the tmp that made you dissatisfied?

im going to be switching to tmp because of its lower alk- im using reef crystals with a 12.8 alk thats way to much of a change- Phyl what parameters did you get that your not satisfied with?

not sure if interceptor would kill flatworms since they dont harm snails- they are ment to kill pods red bugs crustaceans. Anyways how big is your tank + sump?

any bulb can look good and look like it works but no one relle knows how good they are untill true par values are printed out.