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Fastrd400 - I typically feed pellet or wafers once a day. Only about 4 or so pieces per fish. I supplement 1-2 times per week with krill & brine when I feed my coral.

I may just figured out my problem. My 600gph power head was unplugged - likely for the last month or two. It's on a timer to turn off at night so I never realized it. I'll put up an update in a week or two to let you all know if things have improved. Thanks!!

Nitrates are about 5ppm.

My LED's are on the longest - from about 8am until 8pm - but only at 40-50% power. The actinic T5's come on at 8am and run until about 4pm. The aquablue special's run from 10am until 5pm. I tested my calcium (440ppm) and my hardness (7dKH or 125.3ppm dKH). Not sure if that helps. I will check...

I have (10) 3W LED's (rapidLED) and 4 T5 bulbs on my 29g tank. The LED's only run at about 50% power. The T5 bulbs are all less than 4 months old. I actually didn't have the problem until I added those. I'll run some water tests shortly. My DI resin came yesterday so I need to change that today...

One note: everything else in my tank (including SPS) is doing great. It's only the acans that have been hit by this - whatever it is.

This might be a better picture. What the acan looks like is: The center area where the feelers & mouth are have become very sunken in. I have not been able to get them to eat/grab any food. The red slime/algae that I circled seems to have encased itself completely over the exposed skeleton - all...

I wasn't sure which forum to put this in: algae or corals. I have this reddish colored algae that is seemingly eating my acans one by one. I pulled two acan frags and dipped them in seachem reef dip followed by Revive. I then moved those two to a new tank and they seem to be recovering (they...

I appreciate all the help everyone. You all continue to be the most helpful reef community on the web! :bowdown:

So ditch all the bio stuff? Straight filter pads & carbon? I can do that if that is what is best. I have roughly 30lbs (maybe closer to 40) of live rock and 1/2 of my sand was live at startup. I probably have 50lbs of sand.

I really only have the standard Marineland provided media. 2 pieces filter foam (bottom) 1 Bag of Kent Marine Reef Carbon & 1 bag of Fluval Clearmax (was trying to drop my nitrates) 1 - bio-balls 1 - ceramic rings 1 - polishing pad (on top) Open to suggestions on that setup. I'm good cleaning...

Interestingly enough, the first month I used it, I did not clean it once. Now I've cleaned it twice in the last two weeks. I was using a penguin 350 previous to that. Should I be using the marineland c-360 in conjunction with some other filtration? What time table is recommended? Thanks Angie...

That would be great. Nitrates still at 5-10ppm. Going to clean out my canister filter tomorrow. Who knows what's in there right now.

Thanks for your input and advice guys. I basically sucked him out with a turkey baster. What a way to go. I have to think the toxins from my elephant ear mushroom that I cut out (next to him) is what did him in. Too bad. He was my favorite piece I had. Any worries about the green "stuff" he...

Thanks for the input guys. I found this site but I'm not sure how accurate it is. EWG Tap Water Database 2009 According to the site, my local water is high in copper, nitrites, nitrates, manganese and TTHM's (?). All over the legal limit (supposedly). Anyway, going back to my leather - he...