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And I just had my wife looking at some of your ric's last night where she pointed out what she liked.

lol, I'm far from new here, I just don't post much. For some odd reason "Medicating" was what was going through my mind as I read.

Looks like normal coraline and algea growth to me. In time you'll start to see all of the other rock doing the same, as well you'll see the substrate start changing color from the diatoms.

OK, I feel a bit dumb now..lol I misread. I'm way too tired

Internal air flow in the room helps a lot believe it or not. As well if you're using equipment under the DT, you need to realize that heat rises. In this case it's rising to the bottom of your DT, the substrate is acquiring that heat and creating the warmer water from below. Then your lighting...

Originally Posted by Al Mc Some of us even go the extra (perhaps unnecessary) step of performing hyposalinity on new fish during their time in QT. Wouldn't doing so basically be the equivelant to you or I taking antibiotics when we don't need them? or are you noticing small things from the start?

Originally Posted by saltn00b right near big als. i am sure you know where that is YUP YUP, sure do. Let me see how my paycheck looks after the wife's spending spree and I may hit ya up.

On my 24" T5 fixture the legs set it 3inches

I do the best hobby of them all. I annoy the wife :D

What part of Lauderdale?

When I restarted my tank I had a cal. level of less than 20ppm, so Purple up was a feasable solution to regenerate the advancement. I added nothing except the purpleup directly to the tank once a week for 2 months then checked my level and was reading over 500ppm, so I stopped. After waiting...

If they do good under T5 and moderate/medium flow I'm interested

Originally Posted by metweezer The way to lower your salinity is to test your change water before adding it to your tank. It is the easiest thing to do. You control the salinity by how much salt you add to your change water I use a half cup of salt for every gallon of fresh RO/DI water. 5...

How about Ric's? There are some nice ones out there that will open more color doors

My 36gal. has been re-established now for almost a year and I just have that fear of taking a big loss again like I did once before. However as they say, when you fall off the horse... Anyway I'm looking for some ideas here on easy beginner corals. I'm thinking some shrooms and pulsating zenia...

Kind of neat isn't it? Typically most molters will go into hiding for a while because the new skin/shell hasn't hardened after the molt. It's pretty much like picking a scab off of a cut on your arm. The scab is hard, but underneath it's soft and easy to hurt again.

Originally Posted by Rykna WoW!!! Beautiful star. What kind is it? It looks like a serpentine. Love the coraline too. I honestly have no clue at all. This was only the 2nd time I've seen it, so even getting a good look is rather difficult. The coraline is actually one of the sections that's...

Originally Posted by Rykna Neato!!!! can't wait to see lol, OK here ya go. Mind the haziness, it was technically pitch black in the house.

Originally Posted by Rykna They could be mini stars too. Are they white? They're perfect little scavengers for seahorse tanks. Nope, I ended up with a large quantity of brittle's, a few of the small white ones, some sand sifters and at least 1 nocturnal star that I just finally caught a...

I happened upon a mixed variety of hitchhiker baby stars and they all thrive quite nicely in the live rocks. Every feeding time you start seeing all these little arms popping out to catch some flakes.