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i was referring to pic number 13 counting down, i asked about the name of this soft coral

i had some fish die while ago for no obvious reasons, i did my tests and were all negatives, all i could do was change my RO water supplier, add activated carbon, and do 25% water changes. good luck.

congrats, these gorgonians come out even prettier than hard coral especially the purple one, good like with the cyano

that's good evidence, i suspect it to be a matter of water quality, what i did till now was change my RO water supplier to someone trusted, change the salt brand and do multiple water changes, add activated carbon to the sump, that's mainly it till now.

alkalinity test bought, it gave me 11 dkh, that's not severe is it? and i've noticed that my ph has always been 8 through the year day and night.

what is this leather finger called?

February 2007

loooooooooooool exactly

my tank in november 2006

Leathers usually do good in my tank. The metal halide combined with 2X 38watts of actinics give a total of 3.25 watts/gallon. yeah it bugs me how zoas turn from a fluorescent green to an ugly brown. ph is stable day and night at 8.0, and i had problems occur ever since i started the tank, so if...

my halide bulb is 150 watts, which provides 2.14 watts/us gallon on my 70 us gallons display, it's located 35cm away from water surface, when turned on alone it weakly lights the tank, but i'll reduce the period to 6 hours and check for any differences. concerning temp, bleaching occured both...

no i never used copper in it. so usually would alkalinity have a strong impact on the livestock? there's this PRODAC alkalinity test that i would get if it is so. or mabe wait and check if MEI have one for alkalinity. well anyway i've already switched some 3 months ago to IO and used 4 boxes (4...

so is it this severe to have the halides for 8 hours? i don't have sps, i sure wish i had, and my corraline algae is slow propagating. when i first started my tank i used it as a fresh water tank for only a short period, what does that pose?

Well there are two nicely blue colored mushroom rocks (photos displaying only one rock) that turned brownish in a matter of 2 months there's also a red ricordea yuma that is turning white. Some mushrooms would also just die off sometimes. Also notice that i couldn't get caulerpa to live in my...

i couldn't find a calcium test kit, but i do some 20% monthly water changes using RO water, specific gravity is 24, and i have low calcium demand in my tank. i use Prodac to test phosphate, jungle to test nitrite, mei for ammonia and ph, and tetra for nitrate. Notice also that the tank has only...