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When I firtst got this fish about 2 months ago, he constantly swam around, from one end of the 135 to the other. For the past month, he has just been hanging towards the bottom. Today (this morning) he was on the bottome not really swimming at all and breathing rather rapidly. I took him out...

Located on two of my acros are these things. The come out of a larger hole than a polyp. They are shaped like a hand, not a full circle like a 'featherduster'. Just a half circle. Anyway, this thing will rotate back and forth like a wrist turning on your arm. These 'fingers ' will also retract...

Yea, it fired up, but then started to flicker. It is a brand new bulb.. I ddint try it in another socket though. Socket shoud (lol) be okay, beccause I just took the other lamp out and it was working fine. The place that I got it from told me to burn it today and tomorrow and let them know...

In just installed a new 250w XM, MH, bulb and it seems to be flickering/ It is brand new. Is this normal? thanks Josh

Hey, Thanks for the help guys. I am going to 'recalibrate' it tody. Im not sure if its temp. sensetive. I was under the assumption( i know, lol) that reft. didnt need to be calibrated' temp' wise anyway. Josh

I performed the hypo by the book, thats why I was wondering what might have went wrong, as i monitered the sg/salinity (w. ref.) In my ref. the numbers are equivilant 1.009=14. He, for the most part, just seemed to lose his color and was gone the next morning. Just dont want to lose the tang to...

I have qt, in 2 differnt tanks, 1 yellow tang and one clarkii clown. i lost the clown last night, he got really pale in color and was dead this morning:((. My salinity in the tangs tank is only at 1.013 at this point. the clowns was at, 1.009. Heres my question. For those that have a...

Should i prepare to use a reef buffer, for a dropping pH when doing hyposalinity for ich?

i took a look at that and im not sure thats what it is. He has 2 little air bubbles right in the middle of his left eye. Has anyone ever heard of this affliction?

of his eyes? What is this? also, he normailly stays to the bottom of the tank, but hte past couple of days ive noticed him towards the top swimming in large circles. Coincidence? Please let me know, i have him in QT now. preparing for the worst.......

the salt? I am meticulous at keeping my sg at 1.025. I think its just more a 'phase' that a newer tank goes thru, i have somewhat memories of my 55 doing the same thing.

My water levels are normal and i did a change yesterday> I do a 20-30g change a week. I did clean out this trouble algea in my overflows yesterday though.

no its not a new tank, its 3 monts old, but still I would consider it new. It has fish in it and is a 135, 250# LR, and 150#LS.

I just cannot seem to get my water cleared up.. I mean, you look at it from the front and it looks pretty good(excepty for the microbubbles, thanks to my skimmer) and then you look to the side and it looks like crap. I have added nothing to make it become this way, but seems i have a large build...

Well, I cleaned out the overflows the best i could, and removed some cheato that was debris covered. The stuff in the overflow came on pretty fast though. It looks like ill be cleaniung it often. Can anyone tell me What causes this stuff to grow, and how it can be eliminated. btw, just so were...

it seems to be growing pretty fast. I will remove that algea asap though. One other problem im having with the chaeto is that it is inthe middle of my sump and seems to trap all the 'crap' that comes floating by. Is it best to remove this crud-covered chaeto? Josh

Yes, I can scrape it off. I guess I was moreso looking for the 'cause' of the problem. I have alot of chaeto in my sump, but it seems i still have phosphates, ie cyano . any thoughts?

Its due to the high water flow? I thought high flow reduced algea? Just wondering(not complaining) on why its contained in the box only, not in the sump or tank, just the overflows..

does anyone know why this is appearing and how i can get rid of it, is it safe to put a snail or something in there? thanks.

LOL, well no dead anything, and no burnt hands, so must be a faulty probe, or uncalibrated. I will calibrate it tonight. It actually says its 9.19 now, but it always raises 'unbeliveably' whenever i add topoff water to my reservoir(airiated). Thanks again josh