Recent content by Ssteve

So I made a few changes over the last couple weeks. Added some zoa's, two heads of frogspawn, and sold the kessil in favor of a reefbreeders full spectrum fixture. I had thre dreaded algae bloom, but it cleared up in about two days. Shocking actually how insanely quickly such a large amount of...

Just picked this up a few weeks ago along with the gooseneck, but am going with a long tank so I'm going to need a different light. I would like to trade for a mp10, but would sell at a loss for $170 for light and gooseneck.

So I called my LFS to place a order for a specific clown I wanted, and happened to ask if they had any very small watchman gobies in stock. They did, so I headed there after work. Long story short I fell in love with a juvenile true percula. Awesome deep orange coloring and was hosting bta and...

ammonia spiked, trates and trites when't up, then came back down. Yesterday morning I tested everything and they all were zero's with ph about 8.0.. So today I checked again and same thing. So tonight when I got off work, I grabbed a emerald crab and a few snails. I know its just a crab, but man...

So my ammonia levels stayed just under 1ppm for about 4 days, no nitrates or nitrites at all. So I added straight ammonia and brought it to 4ppm. Now two days later and ammonia is down to about 2ppm, and my nitrates are somewhere between 50-60ppm, and my nitrites are about 2ppm. Should I...

A whale. Yeah that would be damn awesome. I want a lot of stuff so I guess I can scratch the shrimp off the list then and I'll just start pulling the asterina.

So my ammonia levels have been lingering at a tad over .5 for a few days now. They came down from a bit over 1.0, and havent seen any other changes. Still zero trates and trites, ph is 8.0, and thats it.

Came home to a Asterina starfish on the glass. Kinda excited actually cause I would really enjoy having some harlequin shrimp eventually, so I'm gonna leave it there and see what happens.

Little blue hair like thing in the upper third and slightly to the right. Kept my lights on for a couple hours and the thing in the first pic started to open up and looks a lot like a Zoa.

can anyone ID these for me. Just started running my lights a little bit two days ago and had a couple things pop up. these are a little harder to see since they move a fair amount so I was only able to get the one on the left kind of clear.

I got both tests the API pro liquid testing as well as the API five in one strips. The strips seem a bit harder to read to me, as well as it doesn't test ammonia. The main thing I noticed is that the ph seems to read completely different between the two kits. My tank has only been up and running...

Got a media basket coming from someone second hand. I'll just run that and the chemipure on e I get a bit of a bio load going. I currently have about 12-14lbs of LR and just shy of 15lbs of live sand. I do plan to pull two small rocks out which might total about 2lbs that way I have a small...

Not running a skimmer, just floss. So what I'm gathering if I don't run chemipure, then basically I'll just be running a filter pad.....?

Pulled the chemipure. What would you recommend for filtration without running a fuge?