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strontium and mylobedium every 4 days and some iodine for the inverts once a week....other than that water changes supplement everything else! Cyclopeeze or phytoplankton for food....

I just found my xenia and rainbow hammer together this morning, and looks like my xenia lost out...i had to move the other stalks to a diff location, hammers pack a nasty punch but so do xenia even to the human touch! :scared:

You dont have to have a drilled tank to use a wet/dry, mine isnt i have an external overflow box, sits inside the tank, tube inside syphons water into outside box which flows down my pvc piping into my sump on the bottom of my tank, drip trays filter water, return pump picks water back up and...

PVC check valves would work but in my experience they failed on me after timeless practice runs so i took it out and have thus made it very simple for power outages....leave the pvc elbow(return water back into tank) near the surface helps with surface agitation and water flow so the minute the...

You have to find that happy medium, the bubbles should just be breaking the surface without pouring out, the dryer the bubbles (less water with them after breaking the surface is better) for more gunk takeout, but if you adjust it where its more water you can wet skim and that should help...

I have the bak pak 2 dual pump, it does the job, but like everyone else says it is a pain in the butt, it also needs messing with to really skim the tank, but yes you do need a skimmer, once you see the gunk a good skimmer takes out of your water you will realize why you cant live without...

be careful with those HOBs with enough bacteria build up in those things, a green water algae nightmare is waiting to happen.....happen to me once already took 2 months to clear.....sorry but have to say it again, for smaller tanks hob will do the job larger tanks over 55g go for the wet/dry or...

Well you know my response ditch the bio wheel and go for the sump (wet/dry) system you will benefit more from it down the road.....2 Ph's seem ok...just place them opposites of eachother, and maybe add one more down the road for sand circulation, deitritus builds can build up fast on the surface...

how long did it take to start growing that big....?? or i should ask how long did it t take to get acclimated to your tank and fully grow out? Mine is like spreading its fingers but its small and i see small polyps or pimples but thats all it does it doesnt grow upward to outward....i also have...

Its hit or miss with that coral, i learned the hard way, go an amazing deal on one the size of my hand and put it in my tank...have about 250+watts of PC....It opened up the first 2 days but no polpys just folds and doubled in size after that it went down hill....result the coral never pulled...

the purple finger leather is actually a dyed coral, you should look into that further....ive seen that and a claimed yellow pagoda cup advertised, be weary of what you see..... also question about a finger leather...i have a small frag of one and it doesnt seem to be opening up in PC's do they...

WoW you guys keep your temps pretty high, i like to keep mine at 78ish...but now that its summer, its between 79-80s..... No chiller or anything, just keep the cabinet open for ventilation in the sump, ceiling fan and a fan on top of the canopy to cool the lights.....

I have noticed when i got my 13 head hammer that it didnt like flow at all, minor flow if that...try putting it somewhere else in the tank and see what happens, ...to be honest i have mine standing up in the back of my tank where there isnt the most direct light and minor flow and its huge!!!

I had this happen quiet a few times with my 1yr old yellow tang...put some stress coat in next time you see that and feed every once in awhile some brine with garlic!! Worked for me!!! :happyfish

nice tank!! Can i ask what lights you are using? Also my finger leather isnt doin well like yours pictured but everything else in my tank is huge!!!! I dont get it do fingers like alot of lights??? I run PC's about 250+ watts

Thats a great price wow....!!! I got one head of rainbow hammer at my lfs for $20+tax...but i cant compare since the rainbow hammer colors are absolutely amazing!!!! Plus i scored a 13 head hammer at a local frag swap for free!!!! :cheer:

depends on what you are going for imo, if you wanna do hard corals and clams than MH is the way to go, if you wanna just do softies (leathers, mushrooms etc, some LPS's) than you can do any PC setup as long as you have about 220+ watts... I am running 250+ watts running with PC's and have a tank...

Here is mine before I simplified it even more....(took out all the base rock, and flipped the egg crate horizontal inside flow area to make another drip tray)....

could be from overfeeding too! The lack of LR may be whats causing the lingering ammonia levels which would be why most experts believe you should have about a 1/2lb-1lb of rock per gallon...I guess it really does help to have enough live cured rock! :thinking:

also could be from lights, although 3 weeks is early and sounds like a new tank syndrome (diatoms) but if you are using old bulbs this will promote that as well....