Recent content by griffey_mojo

Good news... When the light came on for the morning feeding while I was getting ready for work, the finger coral opened up. WOOOOHOOOO

This thing is an amazing masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!! Someday...I'll think about tackling a project like this. Keep it up.

Originally Posted by MichaelTX what are your water parameters at? leathers close up like this on occasion as they grow and sloth off a wax layer they can stay closed for 2-3 days at a time while this happens. To rule out something else the water parameters will help in that. Mike When I got...

Originally Posted by MichaelTX IMO they are a waste of money. The salt that we use has all of the elements in them so a water change will readd them back into the water as we do regular tank maintence. there are alot of chemicals and such out there that sound good and claim to readd what the...

Originally Posted by MichaelTX are you talking about the SEA-LAB #28 Automatic Replenisher Mike Yes I believe that is the same. It is supposed to replenish many trace elements

Originally Posted by MichaelTX I deleted the link to that store since SWF.com is a store links to competitors is not allowed to be posted. I will look those up and see what I can find though since you dont have a test kit for the iodine and such I wouldnt add anymore till you got one it can be...

Originally Posted by Tankgeeks what kind of flow is it getting? water flow will help keep detrius from settling on it and irritating it (for a leather low flow will do, dont blast it)....if youre saying it has a waxy layer on top it would be a good idea to get some more flow in its direction to...

Originally Posted by MichaelTX what are the blocks your talking about? I have never seen these. I would look at a good 2 part calcium supplement like kents it will go farther in helping maintain levels. Do you have a test kit for the iodine and elements? if not you really dont want to add...

Originally Posted by MichaelTX what are your water parameters at? leathers close up like this on occasion as they grow and sloth off a wax layer they can stay closed for 2-3 days at a time while this happens. To rule out something else the water parameters will help in that. Mike I did see...

pH - 7.8 (lights have only been on 1 hour so far today when I ran this test. I was told you should have them on for about 4-5 hours before you test this. I will retest this one some hours later and see what it reads then.) Ammonia - 0 ppm Nitrite - 0 ppm Nitrate - 20 ppm I had them test the...

Originally Posted by MichaelTX did they give you a numerical number for the readings. LFS's idea of OK is not always what we want in our tanks. IE the LFS I went to long time ago decided that up to .5 ammonia was expected and ok 1ppm nitrite was OK and salinity of 1.019 is OK and all inline...

I took a water sample to the LFS yesterday...all systems were go.

also...his tiny feeding tubes or whatever there called did NOT come out yesterday...

I noticed a few yellow spots on my coral yesterday morning...Has anyone seen this before? Can anyone identify it? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thursday night the coral had been knocked over by a turbo snail or something....and was face down in the sand...I don't know if this has...

I am having similar issues. 54 gallon...60 lbs of LR... I have 12 turbo's...50 blue legs...and 8 nessarius snails. But just can't seem to keep the sand "clean" as I would think it should be. Any input would be appreciated. Is there any downfalls to using a UV Sterilizer in my reef tank???