Recent content by dejaco

Every tank / system will vary by it's unique bio load. Suggestion though. Do a weekly water change with newly mixed up water. Put whatever weekly addatives you use in now also. Do your cleaning and any scheduled maintainance. Now test and record your parameters (including time of day). Wait...

If you really want clean sand all the time - put in a Diamond watchman goby. Amazing how ththey sift your sand all day!

Ph = 8.3 / 8.4 Alk = 180 / 190 ppm CaCO3 Ca = 440 / 460 Go to main page of message boards, look for "Archives" instead of reef tanks go there and look for calcium / alkalinity charts Many other great pieces of information there too!

Hey same here - two 250 watt MH and two 160 watss VHO and everything is great. I keep zoo's, shrooms, and clams low, softies and LPS midway and am finally gett SPS up top on rocks!

Product called "Aptasia Control" works wonders, you feed it to them watch them shudder and die!

I really like the dragon eye's in the back of that picture

Mix it, heat and circulate and hold it for 24 hours!

Calm down grasshopper! If as you say your water parameters are all "fine" then relax. The fish and inverts will produce wastes, not every bit of food you put into tank will be eaten and that will become waste. The Chaeto will not starve to death. I usually only have to thin mine out every 3...

Corallife Super Skimmer. Can backpack it, place it in the sump, or plumb it out side of sump. Great skimmer for it's price and it really works.

Clean up crew for 125 with 5 - 7 inch sand bed and 200 LR Opinionated question but covering for algae in different types- Scarlet reef hermits 36 Dwarf zebra hermits 36 Nassarius snails small 36 Super Tongan Snails 24 Cerith Snails 36 Turbo...

I normally run Ca at 440 - 460 and Alk at 180 - 190 ppm CaCO3. Since I switched Ca has been pretty easy to keep up (dropping to around 420 every 6 - 7 days) whereas Alk will be up to 180 - 190 then drop to 140. With instant ocean I would see drops of 30 - 4- point in calcium and 30 - 40...

Will grow back in a couple of moltings. CB shrimp have the ability to drop a claw when threatened so as to leave it behind while they escape.

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?

I agree with above post that states Flame Scallops should be on a do not purchase list. The LFS has been honest enough to tell me that they don't last well in his tanks, people who buy them always say they were doing great then died, and every author I have read says they are better left in the...

Question lime water = kalkwasser? If so the reading I am doing says once mixed it needs to be dripped in just a few days as it settles out. Is this wrong? If it is I wouldn't mind trying your method.