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Coral feeding There seems to be a prevalent myth that most corals are fully photosynthetic and do not need food. this is pure hype, most corals require foods, often time we can get away without supplemental feedings because there is enough or just about enough foods in our water columns to...

I have noticed a frightening trend, frightening to me anyway, lack of water changes. people trending on running overly long times without doing a simple water change, I am curious as to why? laziness? confidence in the thought they arent needed? lets hear your reasons if you go extended periods...

how dangerous can it be? quite. I have created threads in the past about palytoxins from palythoas and zoanthids, I dont think it can be emphasized enough how dangerous they are, but not only do we have to worry about those (gloves and glasses are a must) but the thousands of bacteria that call...

no matter how long I have been doing this I manage to still glue myself together or to something once in a while...... gloves, remember the gloves. unfortunately I peeled my fingers apart before I thought to snap a picture.

its a myustery as to what it is, I have looked at hundreds of photo's but cant seem to find it. I'm a coral geek maybe one of you fish geeks want to nail the common and scientific names for me?

Sooooo... I was bored and started looking at old threads I had created and stumbled across these old gems and thought I might breathe some life back into them. feel free to read, critique, comment ignore as you will. I enjoyed rereading them. and I hope some one else will as well. random reef...

so after an extended break from marine tanks I am gearing up to re build the 125g after the horrible crash in which I lost EVERYTHING, I needed a break, so I took one. Now I feel I am ready to start the rebuild. like any good project this is going to be slow and steady. I am going to slowly...

ok, long story short. some one called me up anjd offered me a fish tank with "some stuff" for free, I said sure. they drop off a 6 foot long 150g tank, stand, a couple really cool pieces of dead rock, 2 ten gallon tanks, an old Fluval 303 canister filter. all kinds of random fish junk stacked...

so I was goofing around today...... and you know what that means. I had a small pile of leftover rock from setting up my 125 (which I found out is a 130) but anyhow. I took a 5g acrylic shallow tank and took a few minutes to cut a hole in the back for an over flow and set it on an old sump i...

Just picked up this sweet deal on a 1975 yamaha 433 sled. runs, 1700 miles, need the shifter repaired and the oil resivour repaired (its cracked). for the whopping price of free. the track stilll has the factory nubs on it. I cant wait to restore this little gem. I cant believe how great of...

some basic math for those who have a hard time getting their mind around the hard numbers of doing water changes. water change table, showing how many changes at what volume to make initial amounts reduce to roughly 25% of their initial levels, this is without including influx or increase...

ok lets say you wish to dose caclium, both chemicals will raise calcium. but what are the other impacts of dosing one versus the other for caclium maintinence. and the pro's and cons of either of the two. I currently use a two part dosing regiment, dosing calcium chloride and seperatly a...

Nutrients: import export, the unbalanced scale Welcome to another edition of random reefkeeping. Its been a while since I bothered hashing out any thoughts and laying into my keyboard with vigor, but recentley a couple conversations about skimming, food supply, and what to do with the leftovers...

was goofing off in the workshop before work today and I got the idea I would build a maxi mod, so I made a quick run to the local hobby shop and picked up a carbon fiber shaft a plastic sleeve and 2 probopat 1:12 hydro props for racing boats..... I had 1 1/2 pvc kicking around already.. took...

why is it everytime I get confident in my immunities to all things reef I stumble accross yet another little nasty hiding in our tanks. Mycobacterium marinum http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Mycobacterium+marinum

I have been waiting for this for a couple months, my clowns feed it everytime I feed my tank, so I was wondering how large it was going to get before it finally split (about 8 inches accross before it split into 2 4 inchers. I've seen them get bigger without splitting I was almost dissapointed)...

ok earth first has a rather extreme view on stuff but good taste in music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkh5_Gl137o

Great news (for me), I was talking to the wife about re-setting my 75g so i could move my purple montipora caprinornis away from the bubble tip anemone (its on a huge rock so an entire tank reset is needed to actually move it) who is growing large and obviously doing damage to everything it can...

the store had it labled as a acropora yongei, but I beleieve its either a Acropora loripes, or a Acropora humilis. what do you guys think it is. it does not have very good color yet. the photo isnt very good either its not as bleached out as it look in the photo. the polyp nubs are green and...