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tank is 8 years old, now am using reef crystals, it is a reef tank,tank size 65, with small amount of corals (mostly frags) the reason i was asking about changing was the guy that takes care of my wifes tank at work ( lobster tank supermarket) told her to switch to coral pro red sea he recomends...

i am thinking about changing my brand of salt, what is the the best way to make a change from one to another.

gemmy how much ro di water do you need each week. maybe we can work something out. Quote: Originally Posted by Gemmy You must think I am a moron. Thanks for that. I do check and request water quality reports for the water I use. I do not have the luxury of having the ability to install a RO/DI...

today as I was doing a water change a small problem happened i was moving a piece of eggcrate that had a frag on it and landed on my L T A. it is sticking out of the mouth as we speak. is there any thing that can be done.

That is why i changed the valve this way i can knock off one thing at a time, I am running a poly filter the fish store gave me, right now has been 24 hours. after I get some water made will do a change, also I have some old water left over am going to have both tested .will let you know whats...

no we never tested for copper, this is a stab in the dark all i had to do was change out to a pvc drain no big deal. now after a couple of water changes we will be able to tell. Quote: Originally Posted by AquaKnight Have you/the LFS used a copper test (Seachem, Sailfert, Elos)? And actually...

I think I found why my tank is struggling, I have been testing lfs has been testing, everyboby comes back with good #'s. fish all seem fine, the only thing someone noticed was the rodi holding tank has a brass valve on it, so yesterday took it off and replaced it with pvc. now I wait for the...

would copper affect the growth of corals

thanks for the info will go back to the store and check out what they have .

I am looking to get some new test kits,when i went to one store & asked where the dates where they said there are none.

the alk test that I have reads like this 1.7 to 2.8 as normal i fall right in the middle when i test, the mag reading was done at the fish store dont remember what they said it was. they said it came back fine. Quote: Originally Posted by BTLDreef Quote: Originally Posted by u mike...

the baby mushroom is about 1 month old the larger mushroom is about 1 year old, the shriveled up pic is the most recent pics of my problem. Quote: Originally Posted by Flower The last picture shows a baby mushroom..how old is that picture? I do see the shriveled up one, is that the same one as...

added a new fish but that was after QT Quote: Originally Posted by fish are good Have you got any new live within the last six months??? or used sand???

no this is my tank of 3 years Quote: Originally Posted by Flower Was this a new tank? If not the previous owners may have used copper. I'm just tossing ideas out here.