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What percentages are you running the AI unit at? Corals can get burnt tips from alk swings so that can also be your culprit.

Congrats and good luck to everyone. You guys are in our prayers.

Sorry to hear about the tank. SPS can be a tough tough coral and can rtn/stn at a drop of a hat. Reasons I have gotten rtn: Temp swing to the high side, alk swing to the high side and pests. What are you doing dosing wise to keep alk and calc up? What is your mag reading? Your PH is a little...

I lost about 1600 posts, looks like it is time to fire up the copy and past and get a ton of Nice pics!!! posts going.

I had a green GBTA bleach out completly on me due to stress from a heat spike. I just kept the tank in good shape and it naturally colored back up over time. I don't know if there is anything you can do to accelerate the color.

It must be something in the air, our bluspot jumped yesterday and we have no idea how he got through our cover. We have the tank covered in mesh and he pulled a houdini and we found him 4 feet away from the tank. Not the best find.

What is the timeframe until setting up the new tank? If it is not going to be for a while, let it dry and then recycle it. If you don't have a ton of time, but it in a dark bin and scrub the thing in buckets to get the hair algae off.

If your MH are 10k or 12k you can run some actinic bulbs or KZ figi pinks to really bring out some color. I would not use them for moonlights as Sonny said but you can get LEDs for moonlights.

What kind of bulbs do you have now in the MHs? If you have 20ks you probably don't need blue bulbs. If you want moonlights go for the icecap leds, they are perfect for monnlights.

There are other hobbies besides reefing?

Pepper looks like he/she is frowning on your shenanigans. You pics look good.

Looks great, will be interested to see how everything (especially the SPS) do under the LEDs.

For those of you not looking for a digital, we have the glass thermometers that sit on the sand bed. That way you don't have to worry about them floating and getting smashed.

I have never done it myself, but I know of a bunch of people on this board who collect things from the wild.

When I first setup my nano I had the rocks close to the walls and it was a pain to clean. When the tanks crashed we reaquascaped to allow room around the rocks to clean. The only wall I don't really worry about it the back wall. With a nano it is tougher due to the size limits and requires a lot...

Our phyto has an expiration date on it. Take a good whiff of it, old phyto smells really bad.

It is a common strategy to move the live rock around when introducing a new fish if you have an aggressive fish in that tank. Once a fish has its territory, it can defend it aggressively, by moving the rock you are starting over with territory. As Hawk said keep an eye on the blue hippo, they...

You don't have any main filter feeders (clams, gorgonians, etc.) so you don't need a hefty dose of phyto. The corals you have are not real sticklers for water quality or additives. You don't really need to feed any of them except for the torch which is just once in a while. If the tank looks...

I agree, my frag is doing really well and also gets compliments.

We are looking foward to having the tank back to normal this weekend. We have everything rearranged in the tank to make it easier to inspect the SPS and the rest of the tank. You realize how important a clean up crew is when you don't have one. The amount of junk that settles on the sand is...