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I have a Beauty in my 55 gal. I have had it for over two years and it does not bother my corals.

I have a Seaclone skimmer that hangs on the back of my 55 gal. tank. I have been please with it. Others have used one from Prizm but have had problems with noise. My SeaClone is not that noisy.

I have had sucess with snails, hermit crabs, yellow tang and lawnmower blennies to get rid of hair algae. However, the key is reducing nitrates and PO4 and running lights no more than 10 hours a day.

When I switched to a DSB I ran my canister filter. It cleasred things up in about 24 hours. I still run the canister but I have Phosgard in it to keep the PO4 under control. While I was running it after the switch to the DSB I used a filter media.

Your PH is too low. It should be around 8.3. I am not sure but I think that the Alkalinity is low too. I don't know what the mg/l should be but the Alk sould be around 8 dK. I don't know how to convert mg/l to dK. Keeping the Alk up helps maintain the PH at the right level. Others please correct...

Not to put a damper on the optitmism but I lost one of mine and found it several weeks later behind the tank on the floor. I have a canopy but no complete cover of the tank. I suspect that a fish chased the shrimp and it jumped out of the water. :(

Do a search on this sight. There have been threads in the past about using baking soda. SOme swear by it others don't.

My green mushrooms and my toadstool leather are not opened as full as usual. The ahriey mushrooms, the colt coral, the sand polyps and the button polys and the brown mushrooms are opened fully as usual. Any ideas why the others aren't? They have been doing very well for over two years. PH 8.0...

I used Hagen and found them inaccurate. Most of the time the readings were lower or better than the paremeters really were. I use Tetres and Aquarium Pharmaceuticals test kits. I have not tried Salifert because they are not readily available in my area.

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I call them suicide fish. I had two. As soon as I put them in they jumped out. Eventually they died when they jumped out before I had a chance to cover the top of the tank and while I was at work.

I have a good friend and neighbor who feeds the fish and tops of the tank for me. I know you can buy electronic feeders that feed fish onece a day automatically. They run about $40.

I was wondering if Colt Coral and Christmas Tree coral are low light corals. I am trying to decide on my next purchase. I am running four 36 watt NO flourecent, one is a 20,000K superdaylight, one 10,000K daylight and two atinic. I also run two 60 watt Sylvania Holgena which resemble mini MH. I...

I have used it in my canister filter. It seems to work a little but itmay not be worth the cost. I had more success by not using tap water for tank refills.

Nice tank. You have put a lot of work into it.

Sounds like Ick to me. Ick occurs when the fish are stressed out. The new coral may have done it for some reason. You may want to move the fish to a quarantine tank to treat them. Most ick treatments are detrimental to LR and corals. Others have had success feeding the fish with garlic soaked...

Could this be a Mantis Shrimp? Maybe NMReef would know.

I love the Andy Griffith Show and Star Trek.

I have green striped mushrooms and brown mushrooms. From observing mine, the new ones appear under the existing ones. The new ones then move slowly out from under the parent. Others may have a more biological explaination of how it actually happens.

I guess everyone is away for the holidays.