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admins... please unlock my profile. my profile was locked during a time when it was taboo to have your email address in your signature (even though i didn't know it at the time and didn't have a chance to correct the situation). since then, i hope i have been really helpful to some people and...

the last time i posted a link, the LINK NAZIS zapped it from existance. since then, i have seen several, apparently unedited, links to alternative sites........hmmm....... has the policy changed and i am unaware of it? i thought it was a STUPID policy anyway...afterall, i have bought several...

BurnNSpy...you know, if you wouldn't have been such an xxxxxx when you responded to the first call-for-help i sent, i might have been much more willing to share with you (and all on the board) the knowledge i have gained from a year's worth of uninterrupted research. when i ask questions, it is...

in a effort to increase the rapidity with which the coralline algae colonizes my tank, i increased the calcium level to 550ppm. assuming proper magnesium and buffer levels in the tank, is this an effective method for boosting coralline algae growth or is it a waste of my calcium chloride? any...

i acquired my 100gal saltwater tank when i bought my current house. a countercurrent, airstone-driven protein skimmer was already installed in the tank. i found, with a little tweaking, that it seemed the sander skimmer driven by an airstone could be very effective at removing organic...

i just removed 1/3 of the biofiltration media in my reef tank. from what everyone told me, it is a good thing to remove the biofiltration media as it is a contribrutor to high nitrates (of course, you wouldn't remove it if you didn't have live rock and a DSB). anyway, i was wondering what...

a couple of weeks ago, i bought a colony of five large, striped blue mushrooms. lately, i have noticed as many as nine new mushrooms sprouting at the base of the original five. the problem is since i noticed the baby mushrooms forming, i have also noticed that the parent mushrooms do not open...

it's taken forever, but the denitrifying bacteria in my DSB are finally up to speed and doing their job. not only can i see small bubbles between the sand and the acrylic, from time to time i also see larger releases of gas from the sandbed, and just when i was starting to think i was doing...

a couple of months ago, my wife bought me a group of pulsating xenia. to my dismay, within a couple of days, the xenia stopped pulsating and within two weeks, it died :( anyway, i had read (and was told) that xenia like intense lighting and moderate to high water flow. well, i followed those...

i recently purchased a nice grouping of button polyps. to my surprise, one of my peppermint shrimp almost immediately began to pick at the button polyps. i have three of these shrimps, and they have never shown any interest in corals until now. all the information on them (including...

does anyone know anything about removing bioballs or other biofiltration media in an attempt to lower nitrates? how is that supposed to lower nitrates? i mean, afterall, aren't more nitrifying bacteria just going to grow elsewhere and create the same amount of nitrates? the only thing that i...

hi everyone... i was recently looking into a cheap, affordable emergency UPS for my aquarium. shocked at the outrageous prices gel cell UPS manufacturers wanted, i decided to see if i could come up with something better and cheaper (and possibly put those five years of engineering school to the...

i've had a purple moon coral for about a month now, and i've had a tough time trying to keep him healthy. i've looked and looked and i can't seem to find what the lighting/feeding requirements for this particular coral is anywhere! if anyone has one, please help. the puzzling thing is that my...

does anyone have any plants in their reef aquarium? if so, are they hard to take care of? are there any fish that would pose threats to plants? i was thinking of adding some shaving brushes or something like that, but i don't know a whole lot about keeping plants and there is very little...

has anyone ever seen any of their emerald crabs pregnant? i grew up on the gulf coast and i've seen pregnant blue crabs and this looks very much like that. i'm assuming that even if the eggs survive, they will die in the filter, but i was just wondering if anyone has ever seen this.

does anyone know if pen-K (potassium penicillin) or EM (erythromycin) are safe for reef organisms, particularly invertebrates? i don't really have any need to use these antibiotics right now, but i was wondering if anyone has in the past and whether or not they've had success. i've heard that...

thanks everyone for the help with the ick outbreak. within three days, the ick has disappeared all because of a little garlic. i think this is a great discovery, however it was discovered. the best part about it is that it's all natural and reef safe! thanks everyone for helping me get my...

my yellow tang is displaying signs of ick and i was wondering if anyone has heard of using garlic for treating ick. does anyone know how or how much garlic to dose? please help as i want to kick the ick before it takes hold!!

i came home this afternoon and fed the fish, then relaxed for a while. after a couple of hours, i came back and my bubble tip had split into 2 separate individuals!! is this normal?? is it considered good? i have two clarkii clowns, and now each one has an anemone. i hope this isnt a bad...

i came home this afternoon and fed the fish, then relaxed for a while. after a couple of hours, i came back and my bubble tip had split into 2 separate individuals!! is this normal?? is it considered good? i have two clarkii clowns, and now each one has an anemone. i hope this isnt a bad...