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I was wandering how many people out there put a glass top on there reef with Halide's and how many run with a open top with no sheilding is it neccessary or not. Thanks Halide.

Same thing happenend to me after about two months it died the only thing he etheir ate himself out of food or my second theory is he was collected using cyinide and it finally cought up with him.

I think from your discription of it loosing color it may have bleached in this case it will need to regrow it's symbonic algae in order to survive and if this is what happened the only thing you can do is sit and wait and hope for the best.

Good Q the only prolem I've had is with other leathers as they grow to close.But what it might be is there out competeing each other for nutrients or if they come from to different regions of the ocean were they coexist with no others of the same speices it might start a war.

Don't worry it's a type of calsuim based algae harmless.

Well I know from expearance good water quality will get rid of bubble algae, like hair algae it needs lot's of nutrient's to flurish but you can try a emerald crab they will eat bubble algae but beware some won't and snack on other stuff.your fish sound fine you'll want to stick with fish that...

Well the only type's that I can think of and that will get along with current fish are the blue damselfish or the yellow tailed damsel.

When you cut the mother colony did you remove part of the base tissue or just cut one of the polyps above the main mat of tissue.And I also wanted to say it's great to have someone willing to share info on there expearances in propigating there corals I and a freind plan to start a propagating...

I would say stay away from host anenome's unless you want to go vho or metal halide because they need light just as bright or brighter then some of the corals also I would do a little reading pertaining to the type of anenome you plan to keep because they can all have different requirements as...

Check your alklininty also how new is it and if you have good lighting maybe it's getting to much most leathers like lower level's then say your acro's need and one more thing have you changed your light's recently .

Everything is doing good and the coepodes are coming back but have found nothing but theorys to explain what my of happened it may become one the great mystery's of my reef keeping.Thanks for the feedback

Don't worry both are a none threat to your reef there actually a good sign that your tank is healthy and as a added bonus they clean your water so think twice before you scrub.

I'm not sure what happened but that evening everything and everybody was fine the next mourning there were hundreds of dead coepodes along with a dead yelow tang and later on a dead manderin it was like the oxyjen was taken out of the tank. My five percs survived along with all my corals and...

Originally posted by clayton: Acropora (staghorn) are all hard corals that need masses of light, excellent water and other things that we have no idea about. They are easy to identify as at the tip of each branch they have a large terminal polyp. Theck this and the number of tentacles on each...

Con Grates! on your first prop, I know it was stuff.The only advice I can give comes from my own exp and that is unless you use carbon and change on a weekly baseses don't cut your leathers in your desply tank do it in a separit bucket if you keep any stony corals when you cut them they release...

It should be fine to use.I would make sure and clean as much of the dead materail off before cycling it but I think if you added ten or so pounds of cured or even uncured live rock and let it cycle for a month or two you'll defenitly get the bacteria to repopulate the dead rock and some life...

Yes they will do this ,what they are doing is a water change they do this to bring there nutreints they need .As long as your lighting and water parameters are ok and it dose'nt stay that way for a long period of time don't worry.Goodluck

It may be to late but try feeding phytoplankton I buy mine at my LFS but you can order it on the net I use DT'S marine phytoplankton.

Don't worry unless it starts to rot.I just purchased a different type of toadstool about two weeks ago and it is just starting to bloom.Depending on the coral some take a little longer if there stressed. My advice is if you know the requirements for it and you think you have it placed in the...

The reason you cure live rock in the dark is while curing new live rock you will have alot of die off which adds alot of nutrients to your water so any light during this process will give you massive algae blooms(hair algae)which will choke out any life starting out anyways,also you will be...