Recent content by saltank

Going to breakdown my 46gal reef, would like to keep the 50lbs of lr; a lot of them are covered with shrooms. How do I store the rock...do I need to remove the shrooms or will they just dwindle away - imagine the die off will smell, atleast for a while, looking for input on how to handle. Thanks!

thanks for the replies, however I am looking for advice as to how much wattage would be sufficient? I am not interested in overkill, budget won't allow it.... LFS said that based on my inhabitants, 2x39watt would probably do; I would think that would be too little, any input on this? What is...

I have a 46gal bowfront reef tank currently with 206 watts pc; considering switching to T5 high output due to a ballast going in one of the pc fixtures - how much T5 HO would be sufficient - house softies, some lps (torch, frogspawn) and one sps that actually has done pretty well under the pc...

thank for the responses, I'm going to bed; guess I'll buy a new pump tomorrow :( glad I was home when it happened; fwiw this pump is only 10 months old, I'm seeking some warranty $ for this one

It is 10:30pm, my mag 7 stopped, 2nd one in two years, it is my return pump, soaking in vinegar so far hasn't helped; do these pumps have a reputation for this??? The first one that quit on me I never got running again, thought for the $100 I would get more than ten months out of a pump any...

What type of lighting do you have? How long have you had the shrooms; they can have trouble under pc lighting, too much build up of, I believe, oxygen in their tissues causes a caustic reaction due to the uv from the pc lighting I had trouble with shrooms in my first tank, had only 10,000k pc...

Have you read Eric Borneman's "Aquarium Corals" he emphasizes nutrition in the form of feedings/suspended particles in the water column IME I've had corals not grow until/unless I fed them directly; a ricordea polyp for one, have had it for over a year, essentially no growth; started feeding...

BUMP! No one has any ideas?

I've had a green sinularia for approx 2 years and it seems to have done pretty well. But every so often I notice it expelling, or it appears to, small black objects from its stalk. It happens over the course of several days and in random areas of the stalk, it seems odd. It seems quite...

Thanks for the responses. I feed my corals about 2x week on average during the day/early evening - I have managed to feed one a plankton on occasion but they are usually not ready during the day Yeah I have seen the tentacles out when my moon lights are on , they are cool, I just am usually...

I bought neon green candy cane frag (2 head) about a 6 weeks ago, so far no growth to speak of; what do these guys like; I have many softies, lps and an sps that have done excellent in the tank 46gal bowfront 206watt pc 10gal sump nitrate undetectable, alk 3.4, calcium 400 ph 8.4 temp 78...

I've run the aqua c remora for years and have been happy with it; I've had success with the reef tank and it is the only filter I use, other than a filter sock for a few days now and then, HTH 46gal bowfront, dozens of softies, several lps and some sps light fish load

considering adding this fish to my 46gal reef tank, current inhabitants are a clownfish and two damsels, just added two very small green chromis to see how aggressive the existing fish would be and so far everything is peaceful leading me to believe I could add the flame angel without the...

been wanting to add a new fish to my 46gal reeftank and saw awesome colored flam angel at lfs here is my dilemma, I currently have a clownfish and two damsels that I've had for about 2 years, am concerned about the damsels being aggressive, so I bought two small green chromis to see how my...

what a lot of reefers do is setup their lighting so a lower light, such as blue actinic, comes on first for a period of time (perhaps couple hours) before the daylight(s) turn on. The daylights will be the first to turn off, then the actinics will turn off - this is an attempt to simulate dawn...