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darrel, haven't added a fish in about two years. well, about six months ago i did add a chevron tang. didn't quarantine - my bad. anyway, within about two days i had an amyloodinium outbreak which wiped out about 8 fish in my tank, four of which were beautiful tangs (lepizi, purple, scopas...

neo, of all things, test for phosphates. if they are high or even present, this can cause an algae bloom (mainly green hair) that can be tough to get rid. phosphates are directly attributed to feeding and some other things, but mainly foodstuffs. water change your butt off until you have no...

michele, keep'em high. offer perfect water quality for the species you are trying to keep and you will have no problem maintaining acros with that type of lighting scheme. i prefer mh and run two 14k with 2 actinics, but have done the acro thing in the past on a 72 euro with two 110 vho's and...

dv, can't speak for the rest of the folks, but most of my acros while all doing great and looking beautiful, extend polyps significantly more at night than during the day. as long as they are healthy and growing, they can extend their polyps whenever the heck they want to. borneman and...

sunny, no need for sumps. they are more personal preference than anything. easy to hide equipment in them, i.e., heaters, pumps, skimmers, etc. i keep a 120 oceanic with tons o live rock, berlin hang on skimmer and an emporer 400 with bio wheels and carbon pads. bio wheels are not really...

have really only used flying fish express (ff express). no need to go elsewhere. have found there order taking, packaging and delivery schedules to be nothing short of excellent. moreover, the selection of corals, particularly acros, is great. have only lost one sps that i bought and...

hey folks, any really, really, really good calcium test kits out there. most are horrible and so damn subjective. purple - blue, one drop, two drops. would love pinpoint calcium probe, huh? thanks in advance.

here goes guys and gals: rose anemone, acros, zoanthids, leathers, mushrooms, diplo., brains, wellso, yellow polyps, derasa, maxima, xenia, star polyps, cladiella, etc., etc. purple tang, mimic tang, lepizi tang, fishers, african flameback, diadema, clarkii, hippo tang, sailfin tang, tobacco...