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makes alot of sense, I was just lazy and didn't want to remove the cc. Maybe I should.... But the polyps are only supposed to need medium lighting, and I do have them halfway up the tank, and the lights right on plexiglass sitting on the tank. Also I have been reading that corals use nitrate and...

Water levels are all good, except my nitrates read in excess of 50ppm, but I think its flawed, because they have been like that for the last 3 months, and nothing is stressed, everything is doing great, except for 2 polyps that came off the rock. Sunpro 24 hour lighting system, 2 20" hoods, at...

my yellow polyps are falling off the rock they came on, is that normal?

if you want to spend less money, but a little more time, get some 1/2" acrylic and build your own tank, its about 1/3 the cost of buying an acrylic tank and then you know you wont have leaks, plus its the size you want. [Link violation]

When I had my first saltwater tank you could only get fish from your lfs, they can come with some nasty desieses and parasites, so I used to dip in fresh water for about ten minutes and it usually will kill the parasites. Similar to dipping fresh water fish in a saltwater bath.

Awsome set up, did the same thing at my house, just took about 6 months to convince my wife to let me do it.

I woke up this morning to see something swimming in my tank, kinda looked like a cross between a shrimp and cucumber, tan to clear with long attenas, and he definitly was swimming, but having a rough time of it in the current. Kinda looked like a brine shrimp. So I was wondering since I feed my...

Garf.org had a recipie for feeding fans, with flake food,water, and I believe some vitamine supplements. They also had a great article about propagating them.

I have a cleaner clam, and he buried himself in my substrate, how do I know if hes feeding? Should I be spot feeding him like I do my fan? Or is it enough to just drop some invert food in the tank and let the circulation do the rest?

I have a 55 gal tank I'm setting up for reef, its been running for about 2 years now, and I wasn't really thinking when I first set it up and I put crushed coral down, I just laid about 2 inches of sand over that so I wouldn't have to take all the coral out. Overall everything is goig good...