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I've decided it's time to attempt my carnation coral tank. I'm planning on using a little 3 gallon nano and feeding huge amounts of DT's with 100% water changes every week. Does anybody have any extra advice on how to get these things thriving? All I plan on keeping are carnation corals in this...

I've been waiting for about 6 months to get my hands on a Montipora danae and one finally showed up on the list a few weeks back at my work. It came in brown, angry, and wildcaught. Any advice on getting these things to color up or any preferances they have for parameters and food over other...

I just watched one of my black longspine urchins that I've had for about 4 months now eat a track up one of my $80 ORA Acro frags and crawl back down. This would explain why 2 of my other Acros look like somebody has scraped flesh/skeleton off with a potato peeler. Has anybody else seen this...

I've noticed in my reading that Pocillipora damicornis seems to be a favorite among scientists for testing and observing coral behavior, sensitivity, reactivity, and experimentation. Can anybody tell me why? I know it's one of the easier stony corals to keep (even though they seem to die off...

I was repositioning a few corals just a little bit ago and bumped my baby Crocea clam causing it to either release its foot or be torn from the rock it was on. I'm not sure whether it tore its foot entirely or just took some temporary damage. I know they're foot is very sensitive and can cause...

Is it safe, or even possible, to run a 250 Watt MH bulb in a 400 Watt ballast? If not, would a 20,000k bulb be fine over a 26 gallon SPS reef? The main thing that concerns me is the intensity of a 400 Watt light bleaching everything in my little tank. All help appreciated.

I'm pretty much done stocking my sps tank and am now ready to start a new system. I have a 30 gallon that's been sitting around my room for about 2 years now and I'd like to use that tank and spend more money on the equipment than buy a bigger one. I'm looking to setup something themed around a...

Does anybody have any experience with Calcium Polygluconate? I'm having trouble researching it on the web and I'd much appreciate some advice about it. Also, does anybody know the chemical formula? I know gluconate has 1 more oxygen than glucose, but polygluconate?

I just started using DT's phytoplankton product and my corals are loving it. I've been reading about it and it seems like phytoplankton is pretty easy to grow yourself and I was wondering if anybody out there has been growing their own and if it's been worth the effort. I'm not sure this was the...

Montipora mollis. Coming in either Monday or Tuesday with an acro I ordered. Btw Yote, if you want something from California you need to get with john before Sunday.

I'm finally getting to that point to where I'm either going to have to start dosing CO3 3 times a day, or set up some kind of CO3 drip. I don't want to drip kalkwasser because, if my understanding is correct, it increases calcium levels faster than CO3 levels. Currently my weekly/twice-weekly...

I have a 26 bow sps tank. I'm currently running a set of T5's on it and everything's growing well, however, as soon as a put a new acro in it immediately browns down. So i'm looking at buying either a 150 or 250 watt HQI Metal Halide Viper Light. I plan to put a 14k Phoenix or a 20k radium bulb...

Do Tubastrea corals function as a full organism or does each polyp require its own food source? At my work we've been getting in large Tubastreas fairly regularly and i feed them whenever i get the chance but they sell so quickly that i've never been able to see a decline in health from polyps...

I just got a test kit for my reef (as you guys have seen i'm taking this quite slowly) and i've found my KH to be about 16. From what I recall 12-14 is about what you want isn't it?

I recently recieved a Sea-Clone (100 I believe) skimmer to put on my new setup. I'm having 2 problems with it. The first problem I'm having with it, and the one that most concerns me, is that it is filling my tank with tons of very fine bubbles; I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not but I...

I know it is helpful to use sand stirring organisms to help prevent an accidental release of deadly gases from a live sand bed, but when should I add them? Are they generally hardy enough to survive the nitrogen cycle or do I need to wait until afterwards?

I am fairly familiar with the nitrogen cycle in freshwater and I am wondering if the cycle is roughly the same in salt. The main thing I need to know is if water changes are ok while the cycle is going on in salt and if there will be the cloudy water phase that i'm familiar with in fresh to know...

After 6 hours of clunking around getting my freshwater stock and rocks out of my tank, cleaning it outside with a rag and a 2 gallon bucket of water, throwing out all of my old mechanical filtration, and finally putting the aquarium upstairs in my room and filling it with water, my first...

When I set my tank up next week, do I need to have all of my trace elements stable and, most importantly, in the tank before I add the live sand? Or is it ok to just let the saltwater run through the system for a few days and then add the sand?

I had some recent financial setbacks but I am finally up to the point I was at when I first joined the site, that is, 1 paycheck away from purchasing my light fixture for my 26-gallon bowfront. I am looking to use a 30-gallon tank for a refugium/sump. I know that I don't really need a refugium...