Recent content by dburr

Sounds like dead diatom shells. Could be related. Sounds like to me your MH are running longer than needed and adding the extra nutrients to the tank is feeding them. I run my MH 7 hours a day on the SPS tank and only use NO atinics for 12. I don't add any other "coral vitamins" other than the...

How big is this clam? Is it on the small side and need to be fed? If it has not been moving, sorry about your loss. Stable enviroment is the key. Moving and chasing numbers all over is not the right way to save a clam. Calcium can and will lower itself by doing nothing, not adding calcium is the...

FLOW. It is so hard to keep the inner branches from turning white.

try this https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/141188/green-water-algae-bloom

Originally Posted by skirrby bump.. wow this board dont seem to get much responces on things no more. That's a nice blue shirt your girl is wearing!

My serpant ate 2 of my fish, down in the sump it went. It's a brown common one if you need to know. It may be my fault, I should have spot fed it more than I was. It is strange how I know it was the serpant and not anything else. It always stayed on the left of the tank and it moved to the...

I def agree with Bang. I have one in my sump, it's about 2 years i've had it and haven't fed it yet. :scared:

Originally Posted by marinenut wow, I didn't think that it might be too low! My return is a mag drive 7 at 700gph, and the Rio 600. I'm not having any problems right now. I can't imagine running double the water flow in this 90! It seems like the corals would just blow right over, and the...

Foxface is a tang? Sinse when? It's a rabbitfish.

You are wrong to worry. Top 1/2" is all and it will speed up the cycle 10 fold.

No difference, you can't see it in the sump so it's "out of sight". That's where I would put it.

foxface

Originally Posted by tifosi I currently have a 55 with 75lb rock and 55lb sand. I will be upgrading to a 75 in the livingroom. My question is once it is setup should I put some of the live rock in it to speed up the cycling process?? I would also like to move some of the sand too but I am...

Originally Posted by alyssia Mine has been 8.5 for 7 months with no probs. You must have a BIG chiller. LOL :hilarious 82 is fine.

Never too much light. I would put it back where it was and cross your fingers, ASAP.