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Hi everyone,, i am having some trouble with my new eheim jager 100 watt heater... My water is only about 76, the heater light does not come on until i set the temperature on the heater to the high 80s.Even when i set the heater to 86 the light turns off about 20 mins later, when the water is...

welcome to the boards!! there are many choices you can make and now is the best time. If I were you i would look into some LED lights because IMO they look really nice, Metal Halides would be good too. The bigger the tank, the more money, but the happier you will be with your tank. And just a...

if it is chaeto, the picture from above then it is good. They consume nitrates, phosphates, and are good for lots of small critters. I have some in my display tank and the only downfall is that sometimes i get little pieces stuck on filter intakes

Okay so after moving the zoas on the bottom, i had to move some rockwork and the water got cloudy... 2 days later half the zoos are open and the other half look like they are decaying. Is this normal after touching them and having them shocked with cloudy water? they look even worse than when...

ahhah okay, they are young and the one only has some minor fin damage but nothing to really worry about

is this bad if it is still going on? they have been in the tank for almost 2 months and still fighting... At night sometimes they sleep together but sometimes are at separate sides of the tank

I have been using the same light, they are all fairly new, i know my LFS had them it way lower lights.

It is on my canopy so it is only about 3 inches off the water, and about 30 inches from the sandbed. I just put the zoas on the bottom near the sand, ill see how they look tomorrow. why would the kenya tree be looking shrunk if it is at the bottom? thanks for the help

Hi everyone, i have 60 watts of LED lights (ecoray 60 fixture) 30 blue and 30 white. I have a 44 gallon pendagon tall tank and was wondering if this light is too much... I have some new zoas i bought about 2 weeks ago and they are having trouble opening all the way (midtank). My kenya tree that...

Hi everyone. I figured i should bump this thread just to say wooooww... I am so sorry for how rude i was, i read back and saw another person. I was 9 years old when i first joined the boards, and trying to have a saltwater fish tank with my own money. Now I'm 15 and i am understanding the reef...

Okay. On the box of Red Sea Coral pro, it says that it is specifically made for RO water. I use bottled Distilled water from the supermarket that is purified by steam distillation, filtered and ozonated. Would this be good to use with it?

That changed a lot hahaa... But softies still consume calcium and alkalinity, but at a slower rate right? Would Oceanic have too much calcium and alkalinity then? Which one would you guys pick between Red Sea Coral pro and Oceanic? or any other.

okay good, i was hoping not to add more to the dosing. I am currently just staring a reef tank. I have had FOWLR for a year and just bought some small zoos and a kenya tree... My goal is to probably have softies; like zoos, mushrooms, polyps, frogspawn, GSP, and stuff like that. I am thinking...

okay... I dose alkalinity and calcium but have never tryed anything else. I hear a lot about iodine and magnesium but have never considered it yet.

i see.. But i still think it would be a good idea to add a higher number salt so the dosing can be less.

What salts do you guys think have the highest calcium magnesium and alkalinity levels? I'm trying to do as least dosing as I can, and a lot of those numbers seem hard to believe according to numbers that people have posted.

ahh... once again i don't know which salt to buy... Everyone has their own story of what is good and whats not... I'm still standing by Red Sea Coral Pro, even though my mind is changing

this may be a stupid question, but what is 2part dosing? adding alkalinity and calcium?

this list is really handy... I like the numbers of Red sea coral pro, but calcium seems high... What I was thinking is that, as corals consume alk and calcium, would'nt i want those slightly higher numbers so that it stays stable?