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About 5 weeks ago I started using Reef Crystals instal of IO salt mix. Everything looks great. I Never seem to add as much Calcium supplement as I used to, but I am adding two to three times as muck Alk buffer as I used to. Has anyone else had a simular experience?

Does anyone have any experience with singapore or vermiculated angel in a mixed reef (softies, LPS, and a few SPS)?

Okay started a 7 am today, now 2:15 pm; needed a break. Have removed all corals, inverts, and fish. 300 lbs live rock is sorted into tubs by size with PHs moving water. Everything looks fine. Just finished cat scooping remaining sand for stragglers. Found quite a few. So far have not found...

Hey I have had my 210 up and running for 15 months. Every thing is going good, but occasionally I get some discoloring of my sand bed. I also have a six foot near verticle wall of live rock. I am thinking of a very long day overhual where I remove everything except the sand bed. Then sift...

System in question is a 210 display with 45 sump. 40 to 45 coral placements (softies, shrooms, zoo's, & LPS) 300 lbs LR and 4 - 6 inch sandbed. I try to mantain Alk - 200 / 220 ppm CaCO3 and Ca - 420 /450 ppm. Every eight days now I have been monitoring the drop in levels. Both values seem to...

Hi all. Question is - with a 210 g system (27 " deep) I am having problems spot feeding. I dice up krill or silversides with a pair of scissors to pencil eraser sized pieces, add tank water, and apply with a turkey baster. It's a hit and miss system; and sometimes after you hit the next blast...

Anyone ever had their carpet anemone regurgitate the meal before digesting it? Haven't had any problems until last week and this - feeds agressively then 10 to 15 minutes later it empties out undigested meal. Not sure if this is a sign of illness or just not hungry, but some input would settle...

Curious question, but how many of you find differing opinions on what your tanks parameters should be? Want to keep a log here and record some average inputs from all of you willing to answer. Tank size reef - FOWLR - marine amount of water changed monthly temp specific gravity pH ammonia...

Came home today to a gory sight! Three peppermint shrimp had attacked a featherduster worm. Literally pulled it out of it's parchment case and were playing tug - o - war with it! Never had this happen before that I know of, but have had 1 other feather duster simply vanish about 2 months...

Okay I have a friend who has a 125 g that he would like to change from a FOWLR to a reef. His tank wasn't predrilled and rather than let the local glass shop give it a go I thought I would suggest an overflow. Now how does one equalize flow coming out of siphon with a submersable return pump...

Okay 210 gallon system been up and running just over a year. I have a few zoo's and mushrooms so far. I want to add something other than more zoo's and shrooms. Reading everything I can I find hammers, frogspawn, and pipe organ corals are all supposed to be relatively hardy and easy. BUT I...

Hi all, I have 2 metal halides over my 210 (and two VHO 160 watt Actinic R's) Question - the one MH is a 10,000 K bulb and is actually pretty blue/violet in appearance. The other bulb claimed to be a 20,000 K and is pretty yellow looking. I need to replace bulbs this summer and would like the...

Okay finally got the order I had been waiting for. Another 250 watt MH New Coral life Super Skimmer Moon Lites and more test kits (has anyone ever kept track of costs on just test kits - DON"T) Any way - tomorrow will tear sump down and clean everything, REMOVE the '2 Seaclone skimmers I have...

Tank has been up and running at my home for 156 days now. Prior to that it was in another home set up for 1 year. During move live sand and live rock were in buckets of water for 48 hours. System has had one horrible bout of hair algae which is now gone. Coraline is growing over most rock work...

Okay Last night I mixed up 2 five gallon buckets of IO mix for a water change tomorrow. Today I tested them Bucket one (5 gal RO water + 2 1/2 cups mix) Ca = 470 Alk = 130 ppm CaCO3 or 7.28 dKH pH 8.3 Salinity 1.024 Bucket two (5 gal RO water + 2 1/2 cups mix) Ca = 420 Alk =...

I have mostly zoo's and mushroom right now, but have 2 pcs of trumpet coral. I keep hearing folks talk about feeding meaty foods to them. Mine looked ok to me but seeing pic's posted shows many with more bulbous fleshy tops. So if I were ti try feeding these guys could someone explain how. I...

Background info: 210 gal with 45 gal sump 275 lbs live rock 4 - 6 inch sand bed 6 maxi jet 1200's in display quiet one 6000 return from sump to main quiet one 6000 to chiller and back to sump Magnum 350 can running carbon in sump 2 - sea clone 100's standing in sump growing macro in sump tank...

Hello all. We have been looking at alot of pics in here of zoo's and were wondering where to find good colored ones like yours. Wax32 yours are simply mouth watering. Last year we snorkled alot in the Carrabean and really took a liking to saltwater. Traded all our Discus and tanks and set up...

Hey all, can someone help with the size of the cleaning crew I need? 210 gallon reef. Approximately 82 days old now. Live rock and a 4 - 5" sand bed. I have corals growing and actually spreading. Zero on nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, and phosphates. Calcium around 450 ppm CaCo3 and...

Would someone please clear this up for me. Sorry if it seems redundant. The test kit I puchased for hardness has both Gh and Kh test. The instruction say KH is carbonate hardness or alkalinity measured in ppm or mg/l. So this is what I record. People keep asking what my dKH is. I thought...