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thanks for the tips guys, i'm already noticing that mine are getting closer and closer to the surface of the water....pretty soon, i may have a 6 pages post on "help, my xenia is growing too big for my tank" (HAHA FOR THOSE WHO KNOW =) seriously, i think maybe going with the natural splitting...

i agree with mini reefer, mine like the extra lighting and current. they will be fine in a couple days though, as long as the waters fine. good luck.

thanks guys, pulsing xenias have always been a favorite of mine, and i wasn't ever able to find any locally after my tank finally got to the point of being ready for corals. my roomate picked these up for me out of new orleans. he tried some in his tank a long time ago, and that's when i first...

pics of my pulsing xenia colony after a little over 2 weeks in my tank, one stalk is about to be completely attached to a new rock, then i'm gonna move the frag rock. these things are growing much better than i had expected. i noticed the one stalk had already started to attach to the new rock...

run a skimmer and some carbon, that should help.

i did some reading here recently on breeding shrimp, and if i remember correctly, the --- of the shrimp is almost undistiguishable. here's a read on that ..<a...

i just recently removed mine, and am pleased so far. low bioloads and live rock are definitely the keys.

Originally posted by BenTrue: <strong>thanks for the help everyone! i will be doing readings on my ro water and i will buy some distilled to test that also. i have recently read that PC lights will cause more algae blooms than VHO. is that true?</strong><hr></blockquote> i doubt that. in my...

glass tops are probably causing the heat probs imo. maybe you could leave them partially open, or go without them? i currently have an open top on my tanks, and no probs. i don't even have a canopy at all. ?

not in my opinion. it's a little high, but acceptable. you just don't want fluctuations of lows and highs greater than about 4 degrees. then you got a problem in my opinion. the fan idea would probably be a good idea, or raise your lighting some. do you have any covers on the lights...

hopefully nm, you will age as well as your tank has...hehehe. =) :p

80 is NOT too high, mine stays around 80-81. i don't know who told you that, no one that's been in this forum for any amount of time. i'd try to find a happy medium, whatever temp that is, and just keep it constant. a couple degrees high constantly is not gonna hurt. fluctuations in temp are...

a 20g long is 30 inches long. ;)

i'll tell you what i do with my polyps... i do place them right next to other rocks, and let them try to reach over to the next rock, and pull the purple base that hangs off the rock. then i stick it somewhere else and polyps pop out after a while. make sure the polyps are all closed up when...

i agree with the above, i have blue leg and scarlets, as well as an emerald. i provide plenty of extra shells, and have not noticed out right predation between them. i think it's a shell issue, and survival of the fittest, rather than murderous hermits..imo. :)

it will just take a long time for artificial rock to become live, and also you still won't have a coralline seed. maybe you could use some tufa rock or alternative as base rock, and just get a few pounds of good rock for the top. that would be a better way to seed it imo. the live sand is...

NM is right, plus also i'd like to ask, that ro water you use might not be as pure as you think, especially if it's bottled. i personally use bottled distilled, and have had zero nuisance algae probs since i switched. some ro water isn't distilled, and some bottled ro can have other things in...

there's rock called tufa rock, that you can use. but it will never be live until it's seeded with live rock or all the organisms associated with it. there are also live rock kits, which provide you with the ingredients to make your own rock. they can be found online. there's no substitute...

my replies are based on the contamination issue, not reef aquariums. if it weren't for my reef aquarium, i probably wouldn't care too much about the coral reefs in the keys..but to purposefully pollute the ocean water, enough to directly affect living corals on natural reefs, IS a governmental...

just wait and use the damsels to cycle the other tank, then get a big lion or grouper to take care of them later...yummy...so much for bioload <img src="graemlins//evilwhorn.gif" border="0" alt="[Evil Horn]" />