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Make sure your make up water is at the correct temp.

I added some clove to my tank about a week or so ago. They stayed closed for a day or two, then opened fine, and looked really nice. The last couple days, I will see about half of them open, and sometimes the others, but never all at the same time. Is this normal? are they catching food and then...

I guess not!

Thanks guys, I think the LFS in Durango carries that brand, I will pick some up this week.

Thanks X, I am going to change salts, my 5 gal bucket of IO is almost gone, and I want to try something differant. So the Kent Liquid Calcium is no good? Is that what caused the film? I can't seem to get my Cal above 300. Will this cause any problems with, what little corals I have? Thanks Bob

Anyone Fragging in Southern Colorado / Northern New Mexico?

I added a tee and a ball valve to my return pump. When it's time for a water change, I close the valve to the tank, and open the ball valve (with a short hose), and let the pump push the water into my bucket. After adding the new salt water, I let the pump just contune to run back into the sump...

I have a 75 Gal DT and a 20 Gal Sump. A week or so ago, my old skimmer quit working, and I orderd a new one. I let the old one contune to run until the day before my new one was to arrive. Then removed it from the sump. That night, I noticed a white film on the surface of the water. When my new...

I am in the process of tring to train myself to not over feed. I have cut back from twice a day, to daily feedings. My question is this; What about the dry seaweed that I hang on the clip? Does this add to the bio load like overfeeding can? I have one yellow tang, and would like to give her the...

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I'm still thinking some brands of salt mix are better than others for a reef tank. Do some have better Calcum, or trace elements not found in others? I have about two dozen zoo polps, and we just added a small cluster of clover. I would like to start getting into some more corals.

My salt is not at all clumpy, I buy it in five gallon tubs and keep the lid on tight. It's also very dry air (what little we have) here in Colorado (34% right now). Can the phos. get through a RO filter?

The tank is maybe 4 months old (Had to buy a new one) all LR and such is 7 months old. 75 Gal. I have a sump with a good size chunk of Cheato. Just removed some to allow for more grouth. I have a fairly large clean up crew, just added some more snails and crabs. I have a yellow tang, and see...

Where can the PO4 come from? Tap water? Salt Mix? Other?

( Name on my boat, gets everyone). Thanks for your responce. I just ordered a Phos. test kit, will check the tank and the pre-water change mix I have mixing now.

I know I have see a thread on this, but can't find it. I have been using IO salt mix, and have been fighting hair alge for the past couple months. I dont have a test kit for Phosphates, so i'm thinking I need to change my mix. I do use RO / DI water.

This forum may not be the place for this type of problem, but I odered five fish from SW.com and they delivered them as planned but four of the five fish were dead when the box was opened! I filled out the refund form and I got my money back. I called the customer service people at SW, and...

The photos I found on the web are not quite the same, but I think you are right. Are they something I should worry about? Should I try to get them out of the DT and sump? Thanks Bob

Sorry I don't have a good photo, I tried to down load one, but it was too large. Anyway, after setting up a sump with some cheato, I now have thousands of small white critters on my power heads and in the cheato. They are not pods, they are a bulb shape with a very small feeding fan on the end...

I just added a fuge to my 75 gal tank. I have a filter, skimmer, heater and return pump in the fuge (20 gal tank). I also have a large amount of Cheato I found on ----. The guy on ---- had sugjested that I dump all the shipping water in my Fuge as well as the Cheato, to keep as many copepods as...