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I have my bullseye's just off my sand bed about 22 - 24 inches down. The three of them have doubled in size in about 6 months. All my shrooms red, striped, hairy, blue, etc seem to like lower placement and indirect current.

I run 250 watt MH 10,000K (2x), 1 VHO 160 watt actinic blue 6500k and 1 VHO actinic white 6500k. Lighting looks great on mine.

Very nice. Color and inflated tentacles! Keep up the good work!

Mine seems to like a diffused light area. Even shaded, but with lots of current. And I too wonder how new is that system?

Some of the reading I have been doing on gonipora show pic's of it thriving in refugiums. In the wild it does usually occur deeper and in turbid waters. I have had mine for just over a month now andfollowing acrylic51's advice it seems to be thriving. One thing I have found from talking with...

I see you asked for BangGuy and he has always been a great help to me! Also check in the archives for a chart on alk/calcium by reefnut!

Believe it or not they can carry many unwanted pests! In the ocean many inverts have built up tolerence / immunities to things that the critters in our closed systems have not! Try a quarentine tank and after 10 days introduce a couple snails and maybe an inexspensive fish. If after 15 - 20...

Flow usually measured in gal/hr on a meter inline with plumbing fixture. Tells you at what rate fluid is moving in a pipe! Turnover is how many times an hour the total volume of water in your tank is replaced. Example let's just say a 90 gallon display tank with an overflow. Everything is...

Gonipora! Many new articles are saying the red variety is actually an easy keeper. Also of the green and brown varieties what's up with keeping them in sumps? Care / feeding / placement. Also another sugestion might be what combination of lights Temp ratings give tuest colors. I run Actinic...

7:00 pm rockwork and most aquascaping done refilling!

3:37 another break - plenums and sand beds all in and leveled.

Just moving this to current with update post!

Okay started a 7 am today, now 2:15 pm; needed a break. Have removed all corals, inverts, and fish. 300 lbs live rock is sorted into tubs by size with PHs moving water. Everything looks fine. Just finished cat scooping remaining sand for stragglers. Found quite a few. So far have not found...

Kalkwasser / limewater = dripped everynight in an amount that replaces water lost to evaporation. When used properly replaces calcium and carbonate ions that are used in equal amounts by tank inhabitants. Don't mix more than you can use in say 2 to 3 days. Keep it unexposed to the air. If it...

Before the bed was disturbed I had planned on draining entire system, saving the water, aquascaping, then refilling with the drained out water. Then after about 48 hours doing a 50% water change and changing out all carbon. I thought if I tested and everything lookked okay I would begin re...

Try pulling the clowns out and have somone babysit for you add the six line problem solved then trade out the six to your baby sitter for their trouble! Try it - it works around here!~

Closed loop system sole purpose to increase flow of water in display tank water drained from tank direct to a return pump then "shot back at system. No filtering. No into or out of sump area. No chance of flooding in power outtage. No input output worries really. Happier tank inhabitants...

210 gallon system (display) with 45 gallon sump MH and VHO lighting DSB (5 inches) 300 lbs live rock Water drains from display, first contact chamber heaters and blue filter pads. Next into algae chambers (chaeto). Then large storage area for skimming(corallife super Skimmer 220), carbon...

ReefkprZ That sounds like a fair description of a plenum, except In my research I have found two schools of thought. First most original Juapert designs show a bottom plate sealed in various means to allow water in and yet keep sand out. This plenum plate is placed on the bare bottom of a tank...

My thoughts were to put in the plenem system. Right now I have a deep sand bed only. Most of the newer articles I have read flaunt it's benefits. The Wakkikii Study showed great results and a much more uniform substrate with no discoloring. Just something I would like to try.