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Right now from about 1100 to 1300. I'm trying to work it up, but think I'm going to slow down a bit. I've gotta tell ya, those crazy Dutch make a confusing test kit.

It may just be 'hopeful thinking', but it looks like some is already turning brown. Today: Recently:

You bet. The next few days I'll be keeping a close eye on those three params...and probably on nitrates as well. If the hair does die, I hear it releases back whatever nutrients it'd been eating into the water column. Have 10 gallons ro/di saltwater from eagle reefs standing by if necessary. :)

Correction, 1100 to start. ;)

I bought a magnesium test and some tech m today. I'm going to see if it does anything for me. I started @ 1300 today, so we'll see what it does if i get it up... :)

I use 6500 and actinic on mine and am pretty happy with the color, too.

Xenia is one of those myserious weeds, like marijuana. ;D Seriously, I keep reading how some people have great success, and some people don't. How it pumps for some, and not for others. That nobody knows for sure why it pumps. That sometimes it does great for a long time, and then just dies...

If it were me, I'd try to entice it with a small piece of silverside, or whatever fish food you might have in your freezer. Just thaw a little tiny piece out and present it with your fingers or favorite utensil.

Wow. Those are bea-utiful!

How big are these guys when they start infesting the entire tank? Someone gave me a tiny frag a while back and it's up to about baseball size now.

Mynd, I'm sure that the water I initially used was nutrient rich, and that started the problem. Well, not sure, but reasonably sure. Now, since I've such a small tank, I decided to just start buying my water, pre-salted, from Eagle Reef in Hillsborough. I will try and test some change water...

Hey Mynd, Thanks for the reply. As for history: I had a 55g and somehow got ich. Most of my fish ended up dead, but with Carlo's QT method, I managed to save my lil 1 inch pair of percs. While they were in QT, I decided I'd get a few more fishies, so I bought 3 chromies and that little pygmy...

I actually think that's an awesome idea, personally. Heck, the fish probably don't enough know they're moving!

Ha. 3 loans for me. 3rd one would pay the divorce lawyer. :)

Does anyone have anything blue that isn't SPS? Maybe some zoos or a ricordia or something? My family (read: wife) keeps telling me I don't have any blue, dispite the chromies, and that that's what my tank needs. Anyway, just wanted to post that out there for the July meeting. ;)

Stupid question: How can I tell if my hair algae is bryopsis?

Probably your best bet is to take a peak @ www.manhattanreefs.com and www.reefcentral.com and look in their for sale sections and see the going rates. Or, just price them how you think they should be, and adjust from there. I'll tell you right now that Kenya Trees go for almost nothing, same...

::) LOL

I wouldn't think that'd be too much light for it either. Did you feed it regularly? They say they just want the right amount of 3 things: food, light, flow. If they move it's because of one of the three. Or so they say. :D

I just took those shots like yesterday evening, guys. Can't go back in time. ;)