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Why not the sump? in most (if not all) cases the tank will have more flow and volume then the sump and it distributes the mix more quickly and evenly. You MUST is a high quality product. This means no Mrs. Wages or Balls Pickling Lime. And, why is this? I thought that the differance between Mrs...

Originally posted by Kip4130 i have read both bornemans and calfos info about the slurry method and they say its best used on a large tank i got my information on the Slurry directly from Anthony, he's always more then willing to answer any questions anyone has to ask of him. The slury can be...

if/when you place Your probe into the cal fluid it reads 7 in the 7 and 10 in the 10 there is nothing wrong with your probe. kc

sounds to me more like a bacteria bloom then algae. could be something in the rock/substrate added to the tank that caused it. other things that might be a cause are decorations leaching or the use of a PO4 remover such as phosban which can turn the water brown. kc

IMO its always best to know the daily demands of your system and dose based on that. also B-Ionic isnt going to be cheap if you have a high demanding system. lets say you have a system with 100g total system volume (not tank size but system volume) and the daily demand of Ca is 25ppm. for...

if you'll wait for the person to get to the phone then ask them to hold while you grab something, then check back in about an hour they wont be there and you won't get another call from them. kc

there has been a lot of research over the past few years about coral growth in relation to lighting. while in nature tropical areas have 12 hr daylight cycles, corals do most of their calcium uptake after the first 3 hrs of light and start to drop off considerably after 6 hrs (this is in their...

Originally posted by rabbitfish also if ur not gonna be into hard to keep corals, i wouldnt worry about gettin pc's.... pc's arent exactly the lighting of choice for hard to keep corals. like VHO's they dont pack the punch to get down into the water like MH's do. i just read today that mh's...

Originally posted by waterfaller1 WOW kc! 5 year old pair of mandarins,congrats!!:yes: well the male has only been with me for about 3 yrs now, the female for 5. they were in seperate tanks for a while but when i set up the 180 i put them in together in hopes they'd pair off and they have...

6-10 hrs on average depending on the corals you keep and a few other small variables. using your corals visualy you can most often tell if they are getting enough lighting. kc

IMO/IME corals use the pigmentation in their flesh to absorbe/reflect light to get/reject portions of the light for their own needs. most corals will brown up when lighting is low in order to absorbe more light from different spectrums. when in an overly abundant amount of light, they bleach...

i've had 6 mid sized Pep shrimp and a large CBS in my 29g for about 2 yrs now and while they constantly spawn the larva are consumed by the fish or get damaged by the powerheads before they reach full 'shrimp' like critters (they go through many molts before they look anything like a shrimp) in...

not to sure about a 'Big Mombasa' but no skimmer should change water level just from unplugging it and re inserting the plug after a cleaning of the collection cup. water flow into the pump and air into the venture should always be the same unless you have something causing problems such as...

the critters will find other places in the tank with the algae gone. they feed on the algae and and reproduce better in it hense the reasoning behind fuges. hth kc

wait it out, give the cysts time to finish up their cycle and then they'll die. patients. kc

they usualy move when they get crowded as a means of self propagation. let them float around the tank and they'll find a place to attach. if you dont want them just anywhere take them and place them in a container with rubble and place it back in the tank in low flow for a few weeks while they...

the equivilent should be 1.026 SG for a salinity of 35ppt. FWIW the ocean on average is 35ppt and thats what i keep all my tanks at and have had great success with them for over 25 yrs now. kc

i'd stick with the MH. i had a 4x65 pc over my 29 for 2 yrs and had great success at keeping everything alive (SPS/Clams/Anemeons) but when i changed it out for a 250w MH they started to GROW rather then just creap along. hth kc

by some peoples terms i have an over abundance of them in my reef's. my 180 has 25 in it and my 29 has 6. never had a problem out of them at all. kc

Oceanic and All-Glass (AGA) are the top two because of mass distrabution (and they are a joined company now) kc