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Quote: Originally Posted by meowzer It will grow back...now you have a frag to trade, or one to put in another spot Yeah. It's not the first time I broke a piece off of him by accident. I'm just mad at myself because it's such a large piece.

I was moving a piece of live rock to make a place to put the new purple stylo that I picked up today. Like an idiot I temporarily put the piece of LR on my cross brace while I was moving something out of the way. The piece of LR fell into the tank and broke off a 5 inch by 3 inch piece of my...

Quote: Originally Posted by coral guy mine barely grow ive maricultured aquaqucltred and wild and none of them grow fast like 1 polyp every 5 months What do you keep your dkH at? I've read that higher alk promotes faster stony coral growth. I keep my dkH around 9 - 10. Mine are aquacultured...

Quote: Originally Posted by Southern Wolf So is the blue reef chromis not compatible with the royal gramma/dottyback and fairy wrasse? OR is it more of a only so many fish per tank thing? They are compatible. I think that Gemmy was trying to help you not overstock. I'm not an expert on eels...

I've had five or six Midas Blenny's. They all eventually jumped. I just keep replacing them because I really like them. I have an open backed hood with eggcrate across the hole in the back. The eggcrate doesn't seem to be too much of an obstacle for them.

I just can't stand Lindy Ruff. I've had a festering hatred of that guy for over a decade. As a whole, I don't really mind Buffalo. There are other teams (pittsburgh) that I dislike a lot more. I moved down to Miami from Philly three years ago. I miss going to games at the FU Center/Wachovia...

I had a bristletail filefish that mauled my Duncans. They have been like yours for the last week or so, but seem to be coming out a little more each day since removing the filefish. You definitely want to get the dkH up. I'd do a water change. Then either drip some kalk or use baking soda...

Research ways to lower your phosphates. The hair algae won't grow without phosphates and phosphates are bad for corals. Low levels of phosphates interfere with calcification in stony corals. High levels of phosphates can harm corals. Personally I control phosphates by doing regular water...

It will be a long time before you should even consider getting a mandarin. The vast majority of mandarin's eat only live copepods. You need a very mature tank with self sustaining populations of copepods before purchasing a mandarin dragonet. The majority of mandarins that are purchased in...

Umm...what plant?

Quote: Originally Posted by rainbow grouper well i am very fond of the lyretail anthias also how do you think some christmas tree worms would do in my tank My christmas tree rock has done great in my tank under 4 bulb 54 watt T5's with some weak LED's for shimmer. I guess I should say that the...

This video is a bit long and dry. I suggest watching videos of reef tanks on youtube while listening to it. That's what I did. :)

Quote: Originally Posted by Flower Wow, I would think like Acrylic did about light. I know plants give off CO2 after dark and they remove them in hospital rooms. Algae perhaps do the same???? Maybe corals too. However wouldn't any light do? Surely we don't have to run MHs, a lamp like on the...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 I was talking fish inhabitants. You are correct PH levels do/can drop off at night, but water movent will benefit fish more than light. I'm not talking about PH. I'm talking about dissolved oxygen. Eric did a study where he used an O2 probe to measure the...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 That's super IMO....but the bottom line in a power outage my corals can go without light, but important to me is keeping my water flowing, temp stable, and filtration running.....Depending how long the power outage is could be days weeks....Hmmmm ...

I have a Xmas tree rock. It's a rock encrusted with the SPS Porites. It has lots of Xmas tree worms living in it. I've read that there is a symbiotic relationship between the worm and the Porites. Mine thrives up on top of my rock, baking under my T5's with pretty heavy flow. I've never had...

Quote: Originally Posted by alisamac I do it with all of our tanks.. Especially at night with the lights off, I'll whip out a flashlight and look around. One time we found a brittle star in our fuge that we definitely didn't purchase on purpose. I could probably do without TV as long as we had...

I must have spent an hour and a half last night peering into my fuge after the tank lights turned off and the fuge lights turned on. It's amazing how much life is in there that you don't see until you look very closely. The top of my chaeto ball looked like an ant hill with all of the amphapods...

Quote: Originally Posted by MyLady if we upgraded to better bulbs for our tank is it possible to have a Derasa clam? The reading I have done has also said that kind is the best for beginners. I know hubby wants to get better bulbs for our T5 lights, but would that be enough or would we have...

I like to soak food in garlic for a while after adding new fish. I'm not a QTer (gasp). I've had a few ich outbreaks, but haven't lost any fish to it. It's my personal belief that the garlic helps. It may just be superstition, but it makes me feel a little better. I also dose iron every now...