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I just pick up a large piece of Horn Coral (Hydnophora Exesa, best i can figure) Its about 6" tall. I've got it pretty high in my tank (75g standard) under 2 175w MH 10k and 110w Actinic. Anybody had these, any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. All my reference says treat it like any...

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Are you sure it's not a piece of plastic that fell in your tank. :D

Marquet, You added your rock a little over a month ago.....depending on the die off of the rock, cycling (stuff dying in a closed system) probably is occuring. If you are adding tap water anything like mine, you are just fueling the fire. If your mh bulb is new, I would rule out the light being...

alti, your right alveopora have 12 tentacle tips and goniopora have 24. According to Borneman's Aquarium Corals, alveopora skeletons can be "round, massive or sometimes branching". Goniopora "rarely are encrusting or branching". Mine is the branching variety. They like low current and low to med...

Azonic, I'm curious.....you have a pretty large bio load on your tank, according to your sig. Are you running a skimmer now? If not, does everything look healthy? If so, you don't need a super efficient skimmer. IMO, you can actually strip your water too much. It seems like the trend is to more...

I've had this piece of elegance (C.jardinei.) for about 2 weeks. The tentacles/polyps have steadly gotten fatter with a bulbous sorta tip. Its on the sand about 20" under 2 175mh's. Looks killer...just wondering about the changes to the polyps. Is it a good thing or a bad thing. Its got med to...

salty, do you have a link or a pic of the light your talking about? thanks

Has anybody tried the GE or Sylvania flourescent "Grow lights" on a refugium? Putting mine together now. I'tll probably have to be an 18" bulb. I know alot of folks use pc's from home depot. Just wondering if the spectrum of a grow light would help with the macroalgae or just accelerate the crap...

I have a maroon clown that took up with a large piece of hammer. He also spent alot of time in a large toadstool leather. Now he is hanging out in a large Condi anenome........He/she is about 5 years old.

NM, what kinda flow do you have yours at? All I have read said a pretty low flow. I realizied that when I feed the corals all my powerheads are cut off, maybe the lack of water movement caused the polyps to "relax". It looks real healthy. How long have you had your alveopora? Mine is appr. 23"...

I have a med/large 3-head piece of Alveopora. Is it normal when fed, to just sort of collapse. The polyps don't recede, just kinda lay down. I've never seen any other corals act this way when fed. Have been feeding it DT's and a shrimp/squid concoction similar to Borneman's recipe in "Aquarium...

Maybe that by adding the lr you could of had some die off and started a mini-cycle. Diatoms are usually the first stage. Not knowing all the facts of your tank, just a guess. :)

Come on Reef Pig..... Couldn't you find out a little more than that!!!!:D

"A Practical Guide to Corals for Reef Aquariums" by Ed Puterbaugh and Eric Borneman is a quick, to the point reference for corals. Great for keeping in the car for those trips to the lfs's. If you want more detail.....Borneman's "Aquarium Corals" as stated above, is excellent. The 2 volume "The...

Bummer......what kind of mh bulb was it and what caused it to explode. Did the fish eat the glass or what? Hope everything gets better for ya.

Lizards, geckos,snakes.........thats your answer. 3 geckos per square foot should do. If we treated our own enviroment like we try to create in our reeftanks then adding this clean up crew would be all the rage. I have live wild madagascar geckos for sale..........excellent detrivore. call for...

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Just learning how to use the manual functions of a Nikon 995. Not really macros but what the hey.......

My guess on the first pic is a green moonstone (favia)