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if just the calcium part of the two part was added a little bit every day- then the calcium would go up and the alkalinity would go down a tad- so i would say dont dose the alkalinity part of the two part and increase your calcium dosing part but dont over do it, change the dose a little bit...
There deff one of my favorite fish- i like to watch them go behind the rocks and come out completely black then watch them change colors and have there blue spots shine like crazy.
Its funny wanting these red hermit crabs i have try to get it off the rock but they dont seem to be strong enough. if you dont feel like clipping the coral you can probably peel the algae off with tweezers.
I got lucky with the big emerald crab- i still have a tiny spot of it left in my tank im going to let it get big and see if only the full grown emerald crabs eat the stuff.
It is called brown wafer algae. You can get lucky if a tang eats it. I picked up the largest green emerald crab that i could find and he demolished the stuff- but hes gotta be strong enough to get it off the rock.
Hah mine was the original one from ora still on its plug and i cant figure out why its not growing- i think because it is trying to encrust but its going straight down and it wont get much light there.
I use salifert and found them to be pritty accurate. Some corals are more sensitive to others. My bottle brush went if my salt changed a tad bit but my scripts acro went through numerous alk spikes when i moved to a bigger tank and he re grew over the dead parts- Bop seems to be very sensitive...
Alkalinity might have shifter a bit- also the temp could have made the coral give up- i noticed a few of my corals are losing the tips- my pearlberry and some that im not sure what the name is and a few people cant find what it is either. I had a bottle brush and it just died off one day and...
They help by moving around in the sand but if you touch them they have little hairs that stick to your fingers and can cause a slight irritation- soaking it in vinegar burns away the hairs.
Could be the salt mix- make up a gallon of saltwater with your specific gravity and check the alkalinity. Also are you dosing anything like two part? Alk that high isnt a problem juts hopefully it doesnt rise and drop the calcium in the water.
I have a 55 gallon tank with some other things like hang on the back overflow and a wet dry filter that you can put rocks in instead of bio balls. Or you can find another tank that is pre drilled already. Im not sure if you can drill a smaller tank because the glass is thin. The drilled tanks...