Recent content by copernicus45

i have a snowflake in my 55g, they wont outrite kill your fish, they would however eat some smaller gobies you have or small slow wrasses, but they have very bad eyesight and must be fed by hand, but they are quite interesting, i have no probs with one in my reef but the most common problem of...

drain out the water from the filer cartriges and i would let mine sit assembled someplace after i get it all dry

just kinda pick it off, or scrape it off the dead skeltal part, if there isnt a ton of algae on it the coral wille encrust back over it.

i have seen atricles on GARF about miracle mud, but never have done it, fine sand should be good enough, the mud dosent hold up good to flow.

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T5 are by no means low light, they put out an emense amount of PAR and Lumes per bulb. I have see a 120g tank lit by an 8 bulb t5 fixture, with only a skimmer and calcium reactor and all the SPS had great color and outstanding growth. And the tank was all SPS dominated. T5 are second best to...

you can pull out the cheato and take some tank water and dilute it to a salinty of about .017, shake the cheato in the water and the pods will jump off into the water then once your done you can pour them back in.

yes you want to use a 2 part addative, not just kent liquid calcium, kent sells a 2 part buffer called "Kent Tech A" and also "Tech B". Like said above dripping kalkwasser will help, but it will only help keep your water paraments stable once you get them up. Kalkwasser can be bought at the LFS...

most people try to pack in as much live rock, because more liverock = more biological filtration, if you have a nice sized skimmer (which you should on a reef that size), you could get away with less rock, no problem. Setting up a refugium under your stand would also help with the bio...

in my 55 i have yellow tang mated perc clowns 4 pajama cardinals tasmanian reef damsel Lawnmower blenny and a Snowflake eel 0 nitrates, 0 nitrites, 0 ammonia, 0 phos all my corals grow insanly,softies, LPS and SPS, but i have a Calcium reactor so thats opart of it, but even with my high bioload...

i agree a small tang would work, a yellow tang or a different type of scopas would work.

when electrons are put into the tube the mercury changes from a liquid to a gas, collision from ions excites the mercury which deflects the electrons at a higher energy level, when forces pull the electron back it releases the extra energy as UV light, this UV light hits the Phosphor coating...

i use one of these lights on my fuge and i can grow corals and macros no prob, i also have these over a FW planted tank. To my knowledge in the tube the light bulb produces UV light, and when it hits the white film on the glass in the bulb it is transformed into visible light.

mushrooms are good corals, low light and very easy corals, i cant get them to die in my tank, other soft corals like leathers, colts, button polyps(palythoas), zoanthids, etc whats your lighting?

90 degree is good, but 8 will work, i got a colt coral, at about 60 degree and its fine,