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we purchased a yellow eyed kole tang after much research showed us that they are the happiest of the tangs in a smaller tank(55g)...well today after four days of having the tang we noticed brown spots all over it...worst spots are on the back fins...does anyone have any ideas what this could be...

Originally Posted by murph145 i use Kalk in my top off water that is refilled as it evaporates by an auto top off sensor... anyways i found that adding one large tablespoon of kalk per 5 gallons of water rose the PH up to 12.5... i tried adding 2 table spoons to see the impact on the PH and my...

was there any legitimacy behind what my lfs was saying in that ro/di water removes some good things from the water which ro will leave behind? i noticed they had all these water supplements which said to add to ro/di water

short and sweet answers...haha...is ro/di simply more pure water than ro? rodi has all the nasty algae causing stuff removed from it which may have made it through the ro unit?

so then back to the original question...haha...can i get away with an ro unit or should i invest in the ro/di unit?

o nice...but for a personal at home unit would i be able to get away with simply have a di unit?

yeah i think light is good...maybe its just getting used to the change in lighting...the only time i lost star polyps was when the rubble they were on fell behind a rock in teh corner of my tank and i couldn't get it up...it was dark down there...and even then they made it for a while...

really?!?! so you don't use the three filters online the dionization part? now what does that do to water? is that a recommended method?

to be honest i wouldn't worry about a slight drop like that...even 8.2 is not an unacceptable pH...if your not having problems then i wouldn't change anything...

indeed...also be careful with temperatures in your tank...we just lost a purple carpet and after much research we think that it was our water which got up to almost 84 degrees with mh's on was the culprit

okay i have always heard soooo much about ro/di water....and myself i have always drove across town to fill up a few five gallon jugs to do water changes...but lately my gfriend and i have been looking all over for a ro/di unit and everywhere that i go other than fish stores only handles ro...

also they like a lot of flow along with a lot of light....

from what i understand about dipping kalwasser though you should mix it and then leave it sit for 24-48 hours and then take out all of the solids which form then drip the left over fluid...

are you dripping supplements due to excess skimming? i don't add any supplements to my tank just water changes which brings back all of the necessary things which your corals eat up e.g. calcium and such....my pH has been low for a year and a half and my xenia and all other corals have always...

well that i can promise i suppose...haha...i will be in touch with you soon with the info we spoke of....

thanks for the kind words...i cannot make any promises but i know for a fact that in my tank the stuff does great and pulses like crazy...

if you put live sand over top of crushed coral it will slowly just work its way to the bottom and you will again have crushed coral only with live sand underneath of it

Originally Posted by Bruder Awesome zoos! Looks great thanks!

Originally Posted by murph145 im not the tang police thats y i dont say anything lol but yeah tangs always seem happier in bigger tanks but seems like chadmans got it figured out already haha i was going to drop a tang police line but decided against it...haha

babyb had to drop your two sense...i guess the xenia is so overwhelming that you overlook the tang...don't worry it is on its way out in about a month...it has been fine and health since it has been in there though...it eats like a champ daily...