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My hippo tang is a fraidycat. Always hiding.

Done some testing and finding that I’m getting swings in alk of .9 dkh from morning to evening now that I’m dosing 110ml daily cover the 1.3 dkh daily consumption. I was dosing alk all at night in two doses an hour apart. The night dosing was based on stuff I read and it was how I’ve always...

Plan to do an icp test in about 6 months

ESV B Ionic was out of stock a few weeks back. My alk was dropping. Upped dosing conservatively but I was just guessing. Cleaned my dosing lines just in case. But I was still falling behind. Tank (130 gal) has lots of big colonies now. Found BRS calculator and figured out through testing that my...

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Moorestown looking did trades: ORA Spongedes Starburst monti Orange lepto Green slimer Green tabling

I was there a last week and also saw the sorry state of things. Had almost nothing and saw all that algae in the first system and cloudy second system.

Good way to remove anemone is a modified sponge method. Get a block of duct putty at Home Depot and a length of pvc pipe that will fit over nem. Put thick ring of putty around and of pipe and put over nem and press down to make a seal. Wait and the nem will climb to top. Gently remove bottom of...

I never turned off my skimmer with reef flux. No foam. Turn it back on.

I use new life spectrum as primary food, but I use other brands too. Key is to feed small amounts. A lot less than you think and your fish will do fine. I probably feed a 1/4 teaspoon 2x a day and I have 10 fish and two shrimp. I mix the algae version and regular and my tangs do great. I use...

That’s bryopsis

I’ve bought two fish from them. They are pricy and I agree that their quarantine is real deal. Bummer is, I lost both fish but it was my fault. I agree that their corals are way expensive. Ran into Rob the other day there and he asked why I hadn’t been in. Didn’t have the heart to tell him his...

I have stuck with tuxedo, purple and white urchins. Never tried pencil myself.

Get urchins if you don’t have any. I have had up to 4 in my 130 gallon tank. Lost one so down to 3. You will have less coraline but you won’t have gha. If it’s bryopsis, get some fluconazole/reef flux. It’s the only thing that works and it works great.

Water changes are easy for me. I make my own rodi. I have my whole water system close. Just use a python to a sink. And I just pump back in my fresh salt water. Can do a change in 15-20 minutes.

I mix a 500 ml capsule with 500 ml rodi. Now have 1mg per 1ml. I then dose 7ml per liter of total tank volume. So for my 420L tank I dose 60ml. I get results with one does but I wait three days and dose again.

Chickened out. Just did a water change. Thought maybe need to add trace elements and mag back.

Thank you. Btw you still have that marine beta?

My tank (WB 130) is now 1 year and 8 months old. I test alk, NO3 and PO4 weekly. I don’t see much value in other parameters. I dose Red Sea AB+ daily as well as B Ionic 2 part. Over the last 3 weeks those 3 parameters have been very stable and perfectly in range. Water is crystal clear and fish...

What are those very yellow bounces?