Recent content by Syris

I am a fairly new member of the BRS. From what I have seen this a club that tries to educate members and make it fun. I think they have down a very good job of sticking to the "Mission Statement". The reason I joined was to make friendships with people that have similar interest and to share our...

I had the same problem with mushrooms and yellow polyps everywhere. What I finally did was trade in the LR with a LFS for even trade of the same wieght of LR plus store credit for the shrooms and polyps that were attached. This is an extreme measure but in my case it was right for me. I now keep...

The Rio 50 has a very small GPH I think its 64gph. I used one as a mixing pump for my kalk reactor but it crapped out after 2 months (using ESV Kalk too not Balls Pickling which I hear is coarser) I now use a MJ 400. HTH

I am looking to upgrade to 250w MH because I would like to keep a crocea or maxima clam someday. I had a nice blue max but it died after 14 days (might have been a bad specimen but everyone I talked to say 250MH or higher are better for these clams). Also my SPS don't seem to be growing to fast...

Ok I'm looking to upgrade my lighting from 175w MH to 250w MH after only 3 months of setting up the 175w :roll: I currently have 175w Ushio 10k. I want to go with 250w AB 10k. What is the recomended ballast for this bulb? A pulse start? If it is a pulse start can I also run 250w Ushio 10k on it...

Well I'm gonna let em grow and see whats what. John, What the heck is a red algae? Cyano :lol: I already have that :D :(

I can tell you from my own experience that using well water just added to the nutrients in my tank. After a year I got bad hair algae and cyano. I finally got an RO/DI unit and the TDS meter on it reads my well water at 160ppm which is considered low and good for water but it still caused me...

Wade, They look to be the same size all the time (never noticed any deflation/inflation). They also do not react when I touch them. I see no openings in them and no hard structure in them. This is fiji LR. Also other inhabitants of tank are some mushrooms, xenia, torch coral, open brain...

I started to get these growing on my LR 2 weeks ago. They look like baby frogspawn but I see no skeletal structure to them. Plus I have no frogspawn coral. The tank has been setup and running for over a year. The only change I made was doing 30% water changes every other day for a week with my...

Thanks. Guess I'm just an overly nervous new clam parent. :oops: :lol:

I just got my first clam 6/22 Sunday. It is a blue maxima about 3"-4". I drip acclimated for 2.5-3hrs before placing it on the sand in my tank. In the lfs it looked great (although I may have not seen it clearly) but when I placed it in my tank I noticed some thin almost transparent spots on the...

Bids over. Did you get it? Just curious.

4"-5" DSB w/Southdown for 1yr 5mths. No Problems.

Thanks guys Liquid, Great link. I did all the calculations described on the page (guessed my water source was 75F becuase it only felt a little cooler than my tank at 80F) so after doing the formula I came back at Expected GPD of 84.099GPD. Pretty damn close to what I actually got 8O . I always...

Yes I've been doing saltwater tanks without ro/di for years now :oops: Unless you count the TWP I use to use :lol: Anyways I finally got a nice RO/DI http://www.aquariumwaterfilters.com/RODI/Barracuda.html Its rated for 100GPD and my water pressure averages 52psi. I used it last night and got...