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I have a 58 gallon mixed reef tank. I used to feed my coral DT's every other day and my tank is very healthy. Today I went to buy more DT's and they were out. The guy at the LFS told me about cyclopeze and I am going to give it a shot. He said to feed it to my tank about once a week and...

Thanks for the advice. Looks like I have a project tomorrow. Jon

About 1 week ago I did my routine biweekly water change... I was in a rush and overdosed the alkalinity (raised the level to 13) and this created a huge white cloud in my tank for about a half hour. Since than my tank inhabitants are fine but my protein skimmer (Tunze 9010) has not been the...

Yes I added them both at he same time... Than they sat in the return pump chamber of the sump for 5 - 10 minutes. I was in a rush and just was not thinking. Luckily everything in my tank is doing great. It is such a scare to see your tank in a cloud of alkalinity for almost a half hour. I kind...

I am using kent calcium. Now that some time has passed I am finally not that concerned and will let the tank sit. I will monitor the levels daily. Jon

My alkalinity way 9.5 when I did the water change. I use the reef crystal salt mix and the dkh is a bit low for my tank. To keep my levels around 10-12 I need to add 4tsp of kent dkh superbuffer everyday. So when I do a water change I always add 8 tsp to keep my alkalinity around 12. Jon

The salt was mixed up for 24 hours before I put it in my tank with a quiet one 3000 pump. When I dose my tank with 4oz of calcium I normally takes it from 400 to 460 ppm,

I don't know if I am being a bit overly nervous of what... Let me know what you think... Today I did my routine biweekly 15 gallon water change on my 58 gallon tank. As I was siphoning the water out of the display I dosed the sump with 4oz of calcium and with 8 tsp of alkalinity. The alkalinity...

So what you are saying is to dose copper? and than what is "hypo". I would like to eliminate the problem if possible. Can you explain to me in detail what needs to be done. Thanks - Jon

After having the garlic in the tank for 2 days now the ich seems to be about 75% gone... Can this be true??? Does the garlic actually work this fast? What do you think - Jon

I have a 36" tek light 6 bulb (234 watts) hanging from the ceiling (about 6 inches off of the glass canopy). I run the lights in a cycle 78 watts (actinic bulbs) for two hours 234 watts (all bulbs) for 8 hours and back to 78 watts for the last two hours. I have a fan on the sump 24 hours a day. Jon

I wish that I could get my tank to lower temp. I do not use a heater, and have only two powerheads in it and I run a fan on the sump. This is the lowest that the temp. will go. Jon

Calaxa, maybe the fish was stressed when my salinity was very high a month ago. If you remember you chimed in on my thread about my hydrometer being way out of wack and when I finally got a refractometer I found out my salinity was 1.035. I got the salinity down to 1.026 but maybe I did it a bit...

The tang is eating and acting very healthy. He has had the ich for atleast a week or two now. I never got around to diagnosing it because he was always been very active and not shown any signs of being ill (besides small black spots on his body). My salinity is 1.026 and my temperature of the...

How many clover of garlic should I hang and for how long. I am ready to try this method. Jon

My yellow tang has black ich. What can I do to fix this? I have read about fresh water dips but I do not have a seperate tank nor do I want to try and catch him. Is there any other alternative methods that would work? Thanks - JOn

After cleaning the impeller today everything is now working perfectly.

WOW. Thanks for the picture... I will give that a try in the morning.

There are no screws of this pump... It is very strange and is also why they are pretty cheap. I guess you get what you pay for. Jon

How do you take the impeller out? I have tried to get that the plastic cap off that covers it but have not had any luck.