Recent content by poker34

Does anyone have any good suggestions on raising pH without raising my KH? I just can't seem to get my pH above 7.8-7.9. My KH is over 12 so I don't want to keep adding buffer. If I increased the pH in my water with a freshwater pH increaser before adding salt, would that create any problems? I...

It does look like they are shedding a skin but they are also losing some pieces. I am considering pulling them from my tank but do not want to if this is fairly normal. I have a quaratine tank but the lighting is not real great. My QT is mainly for fish.

I recently purchased some coral from a LFS that is about 90 minutes away from my house. While there I picked up a devils claw, hairy toadstool, chili coral, and a purple fungia. Before I left the store, the owner recommended I place some MediCoral in the bag to disinfect the coral. He has great...

The rest of the tank is looking good right now. My fish are active and feeding, my candy cane and mushrooms look good, my toadstool looks good. Maybe this will just be an unsolved mystery. The single stalks remaining on the frogspawn and torch look good to me, they extend and retract, move...

My last water parameters have been temp 79.0 F, pH 8.4, specific gravity 1.028 (this one has risen lately because my auto top off was not seated correctly), Ammonia and nitrite 0, Nitrate 20, calcium 460, hardness 12, phosphate 0. So now that I type my parameters, I can see they are a little...

I have a 2 branch frogspawn that was doing great and then all of a sudden one branch died. Water parameters all look great, lighting 260 watts by PC (on a 55 gallon tank), no other issues I can find. About 1 week ago I also lost a branch on my torch (but I accidently dropped a shell on it)...

Hello, I recently started a reef tank and live in Sierra Vista, AZ. If you are still giving away the xenia I would be interested in a couple. My friend also has a tank and says he would be interested in getting a few also. I am new to the forum, so I don't know how to send a message directly...

Thanks for the info. I was just a little surprised that it had basically split itself. It had been laying over at times for 2-3 weeks after I bought it but it always seemed to open and close a little each day. I was thinking that the weight of the top may have made it detach. I will try to...

I am new at keeping coral and my leather toadstool just separated from its base (two small rocks). It looks like someone just cut the stalk with a razor and the toadstool is no longer attached to anything. Has this happened to anyone before? Should I just super-glue the toadstool to another...