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Originally Posted by cmaxwell39 Sounds good. You also want to make sure not to raise it to fast. If you are just topping off daily it should be fine. Yeah, obviously I did an extreme top off, but by Tuesday or Monday I'll need a small top off again probably.

Originally Posted by cmaxwell39 If 3 gal of water evaporated out of the tank over a week you should have added just RO/DI water not sw to fill it back up. Also, in a 10 gal tank you should be topping it off with RO/DI water everyday to try and keep salinity in check. When the water evaporates...

Very nice eel!

Yeah I have seen lots of butterfly's in FO's so I'm interested in hearing more opinions too. The triggers are aggressive, but bluejaw's are some of the more peaceful triggers.

Very cool tank. It has come quite a ways.

Originally Posted by saltn00b the BF is a sensitve fish, it might get bullied by anthias (what kind are you looking for? some have much better track records than others, all are a bit of a challenge) and also by the trigger. make sure you QT! BF? Buttefly? Yeah I was thinking on how it'd do...

Here's some pics of my SPS dead and the clam which still seems to be doing great. Oh and I forgot to mention, my temp is at 72 degrees but it has always been at that. The reason it's so low is because the tank is to full to add a heater and I thought my lights would heat it up nicely. I also...

Originally Posted by kjr_trig I know your Porky is small now Mike, but when he gets big he will eat anything he can, the Anthias, Jawfish, and Sixline are possible candidates. I would go Male Bluethroat over Pinktail, and IMO you should consider a Female as well if you end up scraping the small...

Originally Posted by goodwin9 Those two particular fish are from the FOWLR tank. I have another dog face puffer that did not get along with the other one. The lion ate my 3" Long Nose hawk, so he got moved where he could learn to eat frozen, rather than "live". Oh ok.

I wouldn't personaly put clams under anything but MH's. JMO though. I'm sure if you had enough VHO T-5's then it'd be fine, but if I want a tank for clams and or SPS I'd rather spend the extra buck and get the MH's. That's what I did on my Nano Tanks.

Originally Posted by goodwin9 The specimen tank did house my Octopus until it passed several months back. It now has a mix of some fish that didn't get along well in other tanks. Ok I was wondering if you were using that tank as a DT which it looks like since you have a V. Lion and a...

Well now that my dad got a job as a traveling tech, he isn't home to take care of the fish when I'm not there. So they decided that it'd be best to just keep the 125g instead of spend money downgrading, and put it in an office at my mom's house. I'm going to get trading a lot of fish in at the...

Ok thanks for the help. I'll defentily look into getting some test kits soon, and I probably won't get another coral till I upgrade.

Originally Posted by ifirefight Salifert, Seachem, LaMotte are usually considered some of the better kits. Alright, I'll look for those next time I hit a lfs or Petsmart of somewhere.

Originally Posted by ifirefight This certainly sounds like RTN. (I had a LARGE monti die in 2 days from it) There are people who contribute it to temp changes,but most think its an ALK or Cal issue...of course nobody is 100% sure...but I agree that you need to get a test kit for Alk and Cal if...

Originally Posted by ifirefight Are you saying you added 3 gallons of top off ( RO/DI ) water. ..OR 3 gallons of SW. If your 10 gallon DT was 3 gallons low due to evaporation...Im sure you know that can cause problems in a system that small. I added sw because it needed it's calcium re-added...

Your tanks are still amazing. But when I looked at your cams, it looks like your speciman tank has a bunch of fish in it. Was that the octopus tank? What ever happened to the octo's? And is that tank a QT or are you keeping all those fish in there?

Ok I did my research on that and I think that's what happened. So I guess I'm going to throw the dead coral away tomorrow once I get back to my mom's. This would explain how my clam hasn't shown any signs of stress yet my SPS randomly died. I guess I'm going to wait a bit before I add any...

Well it was sorta white last night and now is white, don't see how it can recover. :( Umm water was low so did a top off last night of 3g or so, (it's in a 10g) which was a little much but still I figured if it needed calcium or need better salinity then I figured its best chance was getting...

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