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I've actually been looking into the same thing with a new home that we're building, and I've come across some advice that it's better to use a softener that uses potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride. The sodium chloride will reduce the beneficial bacteria in your septic tank. (so the...

Thanks! :) The tank is glass, and it's been set up for a little over two years in it's present location. That big soft coral in the front was added then, and it started out about 8 inches tall. It's now about 24". I can't bring myself to cut down to size, especially since it's my wife's...

Playing around with my new camera, so I thought I'd post this: http://homepage.mac.com/mitchandbev/iMovieTheater1.html (warning: big file, about 7 megs) It's my main tank, 72l x 22h x 30w. This is the camera:http://www.panasonic.ca/english/audiovideo/video/palmcorder/pvgs200.asp Mitch :)

My foxface has been with me since the beginning :) (you know...the good and the bad... :roll: ) 5 years this January, and he was 6 inches then. Now he's maybe 7 or 8 inches. Mitch

Thanks, reefnutz - :) good article. beaslbob, do you treat your make up water before adding it? Mitch

beaslbob, How do you determine whether or not your macro algaes are absorbing all the contaminates within the water? Mitch

I really don't think that the biomineralization/calcification process is understood well enough to say that water changes are not needed. It depends on a lot of factors, including which different corals that you are keeping, what they require for food and what their skeletons are made up of. A...

When you do, maybe start a new thread. This one is Rob_Reef_Keeper's. :wink: Mitch

Well, if we can put up our ideas here and get them sorted out, chances are other people are thinking the same thing, but not posting. That's what this place is all about, isn't it? :) My understanding with mangroves is that they are rather low on the nutrient-uptake scale. Mitch

I've read that too, and I think it was in one of Sprung and Delbeeks' books, but I just did a quick look through now and couldn't see it. (helpful, eh?) Mitch

If the bubbles start to collect on the underside of corals, you could get some areas of necrosis. Mitch

lol...Shane (Typing at the same time, at least our advice is basically the same :P) Mitch

Weekly water changes would be good. No lights would slow or stop the growth of hair algae, but would harm the corals. Snails would help, but they will just recycle the phosphate eventually. Lettuce nudibranchs don't like high flow water, which is what you need. You can wrap the refugium in...

Treat it like a refugium with macro algae, and keep pulling out hair algae as it grows. Keep your skimmer going. Use a powerhead often to get in all the corners and rockwork, over and above what your normal water circulation is. If you just let it grow longer and longer, you'll start to get...

This hobby is definitely one that requires patience. One month from removing a suspected problem is not very long. It can take many months for a problem to go away, once you've identified it. It's been pointed out to here you a possible source of your problem, but I'm not sure why you didn't...