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for people that are actually trying to learn something here, and not just bust other peple's balls, i found an interesting thread on the much larger forum. just do a search for "help chalices are melting away" in the lps keepers forum. apparently they are leaning towards the parasite and to the...

Originally Posted by 05xrunner Who twisted your panties in a bunch...I personally have no idea how you kill acans..they are almost imposable to kill it seems. i have had a piece of slim flesh cut off one the size of a crumb and few months later it was a full head. Just cause you cant seem to...

well, that's great! you must be one of those super reefers. now i'm at the point where i am wondering if you actually have something even remotely valuable to add to this thread.

so, that is your insight about my post? thanks for the words of wisdom! how many acans are "all the acans you have had"? 100? 150?

i agree with bizz. you don't need to add critters to the tank. also, red "hairlike" algae coule be cyanobacteria. nothing eats that. vacuum it out with waterchanges.

it's all about the pump. that's the only thing that fails. unless of course, the acrylic is broken. a good quality pump should last multiple years. does it come with a pump? what brand/model pump is it?

i'm talking about acan lordhowensis, and how you can purchase a completely healthy colony, put it in your tank, and it does well. it eats, it's fully inflated, it looks beautiful. then all of the sudden, it starts rapidly receding, and gives you no explanation why. i have named this RAR- rapid...

that far head looks like brown jelly to me.

i don't think it's a sand sifting star, but if it is, i believe the fact that it's on the glass indicates that he's having trouble finding food, or is stressed from everything that happened to him recently. i don't know how true it is, but i heard from an unreliable source that if the tips of...

change the position it's in. if it's in a dead area,put it somewhere with a little more flow, if in ahigh flow area, put it somewhere with less. frag off the dead head. don't toss it though...just put it on the other side of the tank. i had a couple frogspawn heads die from brown jelly disease...

the ati blue plus and aquablue specials are both blue. the only white bulb you chose in the second line up was the aquasun. ati blue plus- "Combines the properties of a Blue bulb with a Actinic Blue 03 bulb producing a unique spectrum that encourages both bluing in SPS corals and fluorescence...

Originally Posted by florida joe The live rock anaerobic bacteria discussion points out that the black areas with in the rock were the sites of anaerobic bacteria. i'm not disputing this as fiction, but the masses can be wrong. a perfect example of that would be the pectinia coral. every...

Originally Posted by florida joe The anaerobic bacteria that colonizes within the rock needed for denitrification is slow materializing if at all how do you know this to be true?

looks awesome! is your favia starting to get purple? my piece is picking up color around the mouths.

i have astreas with 3 and 4 arms also. are these just juvenile or damaged specimens?

sorry about the crappy pics.

do you see any brown slimy stuff on the closed up head?

if you have "About a dozen BIG bristleworms" living in your rock, i'd say they are getting plenty to eat.

this is the first time i've heard to add more live rock if you have elevated nitrates. i was always taught to find the source of the nitrates and correct the issue that way. meanwhile, if you have nitrate problems, i'd say you have nutrient rich water capable of sustaining bacteria. adding new...

i would use the cannister initially, to clear the water of the sand and rock debris, and then remove it. i would use the super skimmer 125 only. don't go by what these components are rated for by the manufacturers. they tend to exaggerate.