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my green show piece of ricordia is dying! looks like it's melting. started on one side and is traveling over the rock. it's been about 3 days since i noticed. all other ric's in tank are ok as is everything else. it's only this piece. i moved it because i thought my octipus hammer was getting at...

woke up this morning and caught this snail eating another snail! i've seen it before but it was on the sand bed or in the back of the tank. i thought maybe they were shaggin before. what kind of snail is this? i dont remember ever buying a snail this big! i'm wondering if it was a hitchhiker...

my kenya(least thats what i think it is. if not please correct me!) has withered up for the last 5 days. it's been really happy and healthy where it has been for months now. i'll do a water test later today for you guys. i've been testing and all has been in check. 0phosphate, 0 nitrite, 0...

i moved my frogspawn up closer to the lights. it's really opening now and is just bairly brushing one og my orange ric's! i have a alternate spot for the ric but it's close to a torch. if it's not a issue i'll leave it alone. the ric dosnt look like it's getting stung. i could also move it by...

seems afually high to me. i'm using the sera mg test kit(which you need a degree in biochestry to use!) is this a normal reading? i dose for kh and cal using kent products. using oceanic salt. thanks.

will pods pass through a sump sponge(square sponge to stop bubbles on a oceanic sponge) just set my fuge up in the sump and have one of those sponges before the return side. wondering if the pods will pass through or if i have to remove the sponge?

i bought a hang on crc fuge. didnt fit on the front of my sump so i had to put it on the end. barely fit! had to add some pvc pipe to the drain. well after i got a snail stuck in it i had to figure somthing else out. i had made a center chamber for a fuge in my sump when i installed it but it...

here's my idea..... i'm having hang on fuge issues! not enough room and drain problems. my question is i have a oceanic 30gallon reef ready sump. i built a middle chamber in it for a fuge but never used it. my aqua-c ev180 skimmer sits in it now. what if i took all my live sand from the fuge...

do anyone of you add supplements to there fresh salt mix before doing the change? with oceanic kh is 5* and ca is a little low. was thinking about boosting the levels up before doing a waterchange. any opinions?

get a call from my wife yesterday........FISH TANK SHUT OFF AND NOW I HEAR SPLASHING WATER!!!! thank the reef gods i am a farmer and was half a mile from home and already in my truck when she called! i flew home to find water everywhere! shut off what already hasnt been tripped(GFI's). couldnt...

just wondering how much crap your ev-180 pulls out? im pushing mine with a mag 7 and dont think it pulls out that much. it takes about 3 days to fill the collection cup till the bottom of the overflow. this seem normal?

i have a coralife 3 stage 15gallon per day r/o unit. i also ave well water. my pressure sucks. on good days i can make 3 gallons of r/o!!!! my lfs has a brand new coralife 4 stage r/o with pressure pump for $200. it's a demo supplier unit. it's missing a few parts on the side where the yellow...

gonna aclimate it and get some pics up. what do you think? up high under the t5's?

i'm starting to get red algae in my fuge. i have the max flow of water through it. i'm wondering if i should throw in some hermits and a couple snails to keep the algae down and moved around.....lets hear some suggestions!

finally got around to buying and testing for Mg in my DT. bought a sera test kit. should have took chemtery in high school! i did a i5 gallon waterchange today using oceanic salt and R/O Ca was 400, Kh was 6* i tested Mg about 3 hours after the change. dosed using kent reef builder to bring up...

on my aqualife 3 stage r/o unit(2 canisters on bottom and membrane on top) i need to lengthen my waste water hose by maybe 20 feet so i can move my unit. any suggestions?

i dont get it! added a fuge. filled it with cheato. been diligant about testing and water changes, and still got the dreaded red slime and hair algae! it's starting to cover a couple rocks down low at bolth sides of of the 90DT. it's kinda like green hair but it's red. there are also a few rocks...

checking out my tank again this morning and made a really cool discovery! i dont know who is the hitchhiker, the torch or the barnicle! if you look closly in the center of the torch there is a barincle. it sticks out it's feather claw and pulls it back in about 20 times a minute! sweet! more...

i've had it a couple of years. never comes out till lights off!(bad investment) this morning it was out when the sun hits the tank for 15 minutes in the am! i was so excited to see it without the use of a flashlight i almost got a stonie!(LOL) anyway, i snapped a pic of the all allusive giant...

just noticed i have 1 small aptasia way in the back of my tank. how did it get there? i've bought a octopus hammer, pink tip frogspawn and a pink carnation in the past month. did it immigrate in on one of those?(it's on the other side of the 90 was away from those corals) anyway, i went right...