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Thanks Jeffre its what happens when the force takes over, lol thier are a few more pics and stuff here if you want www.mojoreef.info Mike

Best thing to do is to dose an alkalinity buffer to get it up, make sure you do it slowly. Here is list of reef calulators to help you figure out your dosages. calculators hope it helps Mike

Oh yea once you step into the darkside you always go deeper and deeper until you reach total darkness like this Mike

Mangroves are neat but not really the best for nutrient absorbsion. Thy just grow mass to slowly. Gracilaria is a great algae loved by most herbavoirs, but is tough to keep alive or keep growing. Thier is a guy called billsreef that lives on the east coast and has a good variety of algae's Mike

Hmmm thats a big question. What is it that you are planning to keep?? Mike

The safest algae you can get that works good as an absorber is called Chaetomorpha hope it helps Mike

Sounds like cyanobactor. Its presnce is telling you that you have some excess nitrogen (nutrients) in the gravel. Allowing it to suck it up is a good way of exporting the nutrient from your tank. You can try to get a little deeper on your syphon to get the material that is actually causing the...

cyanobacteria is kinda like a red slime algae. On a side note I would lay the feather duster flat on the rocks and not keep it in the sand, bacteria can really hurt it more while in this state. Mike

Yes it will usinkit Mike

They will from time to time shed thier feathers, it takes a while for them to grow back but it does happen all the time. Is that cyano on it?? Mike

you can re test a few hours after but I would wait until the next day to bring it up some more.If you add it to much all at once you end up percipating some of it out. Mike

400 watts is alot of light. It will limit you to very light demanding corals. Acclimation should be slow, I always use the screen method. get some window screens from HD and put about 4 on top of each other and then every week pull one off. Mike

When are coral grows its tissue cells devide and thus it grows. Light energy from your bulbs is taken in by the zoox algae that live with in the tissue of the coral. This energy is converted to sugars and basic carbs along with trace aminos. Couple this with the nutrients the coral absorbs...

Yea that is tough but hard to blame it on the LFS, they have no idea, actually most of the wholesalers and transshipper dont know either. cynanide is a tough one even for the natives that use it. In most cases the jobber/collectors out thier wont take the fishermans fish unless he buys ther...

Just get some good carbon from the LFS and put it into a nylon bag (lfs should have them if you ask, filter bag) and then put it on the output of your drain line and/or your skimmer output. Mike

oh shes a bigem, about 650 in the main and 1200 overall. I got a website up for it www.mojoreef.info hope you enjoy Mike

You keep your chin up Claw, in this hobby things can happen at the drop of a hat. Do what you can to remove the dead and get the tank back up to stable and we can get that puppy back on the way to being stocked. I live in WA also and have a few hundred corals in my tank, you get it together and...

Just go real slow with the change, thier have been many folks that have experence alot of problems when going from one salt to another. Normally 5 to 10 percent is the safest bet. Mike

Yep Water changes are your best friend at this stage. even if it means replacing it all. I would start looking around for dead stuff also, thier might be something hiding behind a rock or something like that that is dead. you could also do some more ammonia tests but try to be more specific with...

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