Recent content by garycarr

anyone?

btw, I should add that I have a DSB with a plenum.

2 yellow tangs, 2 clownfish, 1 copperband butterfly, 1 firefish, 1 sailfin tang, 1 lawnmower blenny, 1 scarlett cleaner, 1 coral banded shrimp, sand sifting sea star, 1 derasa clam, 1 fox face rabbitfish, snails, and crabs. So you think the turn over in the tank is too low or I need to move...

Having a heck of a time keeping nitrates down. Have been doing 30 gallon water changes once a week and can't get to zero. I was wondering if I am turning the way over too fast for the live rock to be effective. I have a 200 gallon tank with a 3 maxijet 1200 power heads pushing water around in...

I was wondering if you guys run your skimmer while you are dosing DT's Phytoplankton? The bottle says most skimmers dont remove a significant amount of the phytoplankton, however I was using Marine Snow before and it recommended shuting down the skimmer for 1 hour after dosing I am running a...

I already use a RO/DI unit and my phosphates are at .1 Is that high or acceptable? Removing it only causes it to spread since I have to rip it out to remove it. I dont know that I can remove the rock easily. I have a LMB as well but he wont eat it either. Guess I will try a foxface and a urchin...

Sounds like one. That is very common. When I got my LR it had hundreds of them on it.

here is a pic I just took of the patch.

My tests are as follows. nitrite 0 to .1 nitrate 20 phosphate .1 ph 8.0 alk 1.0 iodine 0 amonia 0 calcium 450 That is all I test for. I have some large mexican turbo snails but they never go near this stuff. Nothing does. Adrain: Won't a foxface eat corals?

I have read the following or similar statements on this site and all over the Internet. Folk Lure maybe? In the "hobbiest" sector of reefkeeping, Iodine has been found to benefit soft corals, assist in calcification in stony corals, and enable crustaceans to molt properly.

Looks like a bandwidth problem at datapipe which is where this site appears to be hosted.

Hmm, so why add or maintain iodine levels?

But does'nt Iodine help the the symbiotic algae living in the coral?

I have tested for iodine using 3 different test kits with the SeaChem kit being the best so far. When using the iodine reference that comes with the kit I can get the correct color with 8 drops of solution. When testing my water I can not get any color and have gone up to 20 drops. I do have a...

I need some critters to eat hair algea. I already have 2 yellow tangs, umpteen snails and crabs, and 2 Lettuce Nudibranch. None of them will go to the top right corner of my tank which is where my outbreak is. Is there anything else that will eat this stuff on a constant basis?