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Thank you everyone for the help and the pic posted is exactly it. Merry Christmas to all and Happy new Year.

Will they cause any harm?

Will do. They come to the front glass when the lights are out but I think you will be able to see them. I'll have a pic or two in the next day or so.

I was wondering if anyone ever had this happen to them. About 4 years ago someone gave me a starfish. It looked like an orange linka but wasn't as fat. I had it for about 3 years and then never saw it again. About 6 months ago I noticed tiny white specs on the glass. When I used a magnifying...

Thanks for the help. I never realized I was over feeding so much. I'll cut it way back and add algae sheets for the Yellow Tang.

I would say it covers about 20-30% of the rock and isn't getting worse but not getting better. I hand pick it when it's long enough. It doesn't bother the corals though. I feed 2 cubes of various frozen shrimp 1x per day and have 1 med/large yellow tang, 1 med/large clown, 1 med goby and a med...

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the help. I thought the same thing about the 0s. I was going to get a reactor for the gfo but I put carbon in a filter bag and put it above the bio balls now so if you're having good luck with the gfo I think I'll do the same. Do you run carbon and gfo 24/7 or do you do it...

Calcium is 400, dkh is 9.0, magnesium is 1200, phosphates always read 0, nitrates 0, ph 8.2.

I do have corals. My protein skimmer is up and running and I've started using rodi water a few weeks ago for everything. I rinse the frozen shrimp before feeding and have lights turned down to about 6 hours. Any other suggestions? Thanks

Can anybody tell me if they use gfo to help control hair algae problems? Anybody know the pros and cons and if you use it do you need a reactor for it? Thanks, I've had a hair algae problem for a while and heard it would help.

Thank you. You've been very helpful.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to need about 6 gallons a week or so. If I just let the unit run for 5 or 6 hours into a tub with a cover I suppose I wouldn't need an auto shut off. Is that how you do it and do you use a pressure meter and a hand held tds meter?

I'd appreciate any help I can get on an ro/di unit. I have well water and I see 3, 4,5 & 6 stage units. I'd like to spend only what I have to but don't know what to get. I have a 5 micron whole house filter on my water now and see that most come with a 5 micro in the 1st stage. Does that mean I...

I appreciate all the input. Thanks