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First water change on this tank is today, got some brown algae blooming atm, I don't have a phosphate tester and I use chemipure for filtermedia. I use instant ocean salt

Hmm.. well, if I'm good then now I'm back to the problem of my leather coral dieing... or shedding, meow says it might be shedding. Calcium is about 450ppm, if alk 4.0 = 11.2dKH I'm ok there.. selenity is 1.025 nitrates are about .3mg/L

So my PH looks to be about 8.5... and my Alkalinity is what seems to be 4.0 or higher >.> So now my next question... how to lower the alkalinity?

I just purchased a read sea alkalinity test kit, and followed instructions one at a time, and after following I can not get the end color and have gone through almost 2ml of the solvent. My water keeps turning orange in the test tube, and "pink" is the "Do it again" color. I don't know if I'm...

Lighting is 4 39w T5 coralight setup. 36inch long on a 30in long tang, so I have a little overhang.

I didn't notice the murky too much until you guys just said something.. I'll have to clean the front glass today, I know I got some brown algae buildup on the front glass that I noticed last night, and I'm going to do a water change today. The tank was a 30g setup, but moved it to a 20g and has...

Well, if "he" is shedding and it takes that long then I won't worry too much until roughly next wednesday. If he still looks like that next week, then I'll be back here bothering everybody worried about it =P I troll the forums, I just don't know enough to help anybody yet. Everybody here is...

Thank you meow =] I'll monitor it for a couple more days, and if it doesn't pop back open, I'll worry some more. =P

My daytime white 10000k bulbs just turned off, and the actinics are the only ones running, and it's starting to perk itself up a little bit.. idk if that means anything or not.

I had that nice green 30g tank before. They all closed and looked like they were dieing. Nitrate is 0 PH is 8.5 I can't test calcium or anything else because I haven't been able to get testers yet. The coral is sitting about 7 inches from my power head, and not directly on it, but when it was...

Hey guys, it seems my leather coral might be dieing.. I think it is anyway, but I heard they also molt? This is what it looked like a week ago: Uploaded with ImageShack.us Now a week later it looks like this: Uploaded with ImageShack.us Makes me slightly nervous. I know I need a calcium...

Thank you Wango. I'll slowly add hours to get back to the 10hour actinic period. I just didn't wanna have a pure green tank like what happened to my 30g =[.

Can you ever have "too much" lighting or wattage per gallon ? I switched from a 30g to a small 20g and now I have almost 8watts per gallon. I have 156w pumping into the tank. Only let the daytime lights run for 4 hours and actinics for 5 because I ran them for 10 and got what looked like to be...

Ya I had forgotten about it until now, sorry about that everybody. The LFS guy told me I should use tech-i since I had 8 zoas in a 30g but now I have 8 in a 20g. I haven't used them yet in the 20g and I don't think I will as long as I change a couple gallons every week. He just told me the zoas...

Thank you everybody. The lights were less than 3 months old. There was no sunlight hitting the tank. I was using Cora-vite and Tech-I in that tank, but I'm not sure if that could have been the problem? I've been working a lot lately and haven't had the chance to come on to get more advice...

I don't think that's green hair algae? It has no strands and it doesn't really clump. It's all free floating in my water. I'm going to set up the 20gallon tank I have sitting outside, use new sand and see if the same thing happens. My sand right now is black, I don't think that matters, but I'll...

I am using the Tetra Test, and I don't have anything to test calcium, magnesium, and phosphates. They were checked last week, but my calcium was a little low, and my friend told me my phosphate, n02, and ammonia levels were all fine, and he wished he had my water quality. I went to his house and...

I found a cheap RO unit for 147$ at lowes. Comes with the filters and says they last 6 months, and I think produces 25 GPD. I'll probably try to pick that up friday along with the chemipure. I'm still trying to find somewhere close that sells Chaetos so I don't have to order offline and put a...

I get normal algae build-up on the glass, I even have some of the purple spots growing on the glass, and also on my rock. N02 was <.3mg/l , PH is 8.6. Will see if I can borrow a friends master kit tomorrow to do alkalinity. Salinity is 1.024.

I did 10 gallons the other day and that pretty much is half my water. With all the rock in my tank I think the tank only holds like 22gallons. I don't want to change ALL of it and have anything else die in there that isn't already, but if that would help than I might have to. My tank has almost...