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Okay, I'll put a bag in tonight with seachem phosphate absorber stuff... Nitrates have been dropping like a rock with all the water changes so I'll continue with that and they should be 0 very soon....what would be the best way to raise alk? I have kalkwasser and some seachem raise alk... the...

No, I really didn't (being honest) I do know better, I know I'm supposed to BUT it was under MH at the LFS so I brought it home temp. acclimated and drip acclimated for a short time and tossed it in... only left my MH on for a couple of hours and then it was out for the night and back to the...

last but not least the third and most sickly of the bunch with lower branches starting to bleach and no polyp extention but if I look close I can still see their tiny little brown crowns inside at the base of the scales so I know it's not all dead...yet.

here is number two... in between, notice lower branches and trunk starting to bleach...this is the one that is shedding the slime to reveal a dead white skeleton... the "tips" have good polyp extention and still look healthy to me.. I fear that the slime will continue right on up the trunk...

Here's the best one out of the bunch, has deeper purple color than what this shows but anyways... this one still looks good and here you can see what I mean by white threads...

No bugs on any of them, positive of that- I stare at them, study them, and scrutinize them continously, I would have noticed some by now.. my nitrates are now down to less than 10 and my phospates just barely register at all at point one.. .1 the phos ban pad should take that out pretty quick...

I need your help. Six months ago I got a 75 Gal FOWLR set up for next to nothing, loaded with LR and a nice sump ect.. I finally got around to taking out the CC and replacing it with LS about a month ago. I upgraded to metal halides at Christmas and a couple of weeks ago bought twin seio 1500's...

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You're not alone- I bought three big acros and one is doing fantastic, bright color, polyps out all the way, second one looks "good" but not fantastic..two small bottom branches have bleached white over the last two weeks but the rest of it still has color and polyps are out, third one looks...

I have twin seio 1500's in my 75 reef, along with the return line and one maxi 1200 (not modified) I have around 50X flow in my tank and everything is happy, good extention on Xenias, pulsing away..., mushrooms..ok, too much light I think for them, sps all doing good... but the seios are on a...

Here's what I would do: More or less like what I have at home except- get a coralife needlewheel skimmer - don't know which model but something rated for a bigger tank than what you have... put two 300 watt titanium heaters in this first slot to- then have some baffles where you can run filter...

It's gonna look even better when you get that sump in there and everything plumbed!! C'mon, lets go get the sand today! Lets order the lights and LR!!!!!

I have one like that- wouldn't trade it in at the LFS for noth'n! Great pic Vicegrips- did you get the sump for that tank yet??? I expect you to order one today after you get the mail... hehehehe

I was just doing some reading on the various mushroom species and the book was talking about how they can catch small fish and what not that way... they think that maybe the secreations kind of numb the prey and then the mushroom does the pruse string fold up and swallows it's prey that way...

it should go away on its own...

your top off water should be the same temp as the tank.

no, it's normal, any time you add fresh water to salt water this will happen.

Wow, fantastic pictures- those will spark some interest.

the crab was probably out for a stroll and had to poop... then the mushroom smelled the poop and said LUNCH TIME, YESS!! and closed up to eat... then the crab thought...hmmm.. time to leave.

They eat their fill and as they "attack" the food some gets by them and starts to settle downward where the rest of the fish clean it up- very seldom does a piece of food make it to the bottom/rocks in my tank and on the rare occasion where it does the shrimps, crabs, and snails quickly converge...