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I been feeding twice a day. Nitrate sometimes get past 40 ppm between water changes. I will go back to once a day & see how that works.

I skipped the morning feeding, and waited until the afternoon to feed them. They ate the mysis. It probably not necessary to feed a tank with my stocking level more than once a day. I have a goby/pistol pair, 2 clownfish, a cleaner shrimp, 6 snails and a bunch o coral. 14 galons between dt and...

That's a reasonable assumption. I'll buy that. Thanks guys!

They ate it for 4 months prior. The fish have gotten bigger in that time. The blackworms are bigger than the biggest shrimp. They cram multiple blackworms in there mouth at a time. They might be spoiled by the live food, but they still like the flakes. I might take a break from the misys for a...

In the last week or so, I have noticed my fish are not eating frozen mysis shrimp. They pick at it a bit, and often spit it out. They eat live black worms very aggressively. They feed normally on flake. The mysis shrimp batch expires in 2018. This is not a new purchased batch. I've been feeding...

Good 10 to 20 is were there at. Phospates stay pretty good too. I use seachem posgaurd. I have not seen a spec of hair Algea since I started using it. So I change the phosguard once a month and don't even test for it very often anymore.

I picked up a frag last monday with a few nice mushrooms. I also noticed it has an encrusting of something else on part of it as well. Now that I've been able to observe it, looks like the beginnings of a green acropora. It's color is looking nice, and it's polyp's are opening every day. This is...

Yea. I'll get one order. Thx.

Does anyone know of a timer I can plumb into my ro water system? I leave it on and waste it. It's in my basement, and I have kids and all kinds of distractions. I've overflowed more ro down the drain than I've used in my tank. I left it on and went to work once. They make plenty of timers...

My cleaner shrimp molted in the daytime today. First time any of my crustations molted during the day. Ive always found the molts in the morning.

Here is a picture of the one I keep my crickets in. I have a U pipe laying around if you need it.

When I was setting up my overflow, I was thinking about using a critter keeper to make one. It's designed to keep crickets or transporting small animals in. I ended up buying a manufactured one, but I still think it might work. They make them in a few different sizes, and there cheep enough to...

I have my first spots of coraline Algea appearing on the glass! None on the rock yet. Perhaps when I start scraping it of the glass it will seed the rock. I will update my pics eventually. My iPhone takes blurry pics. I need to get a camera.

My blasto and lobo are slightly improved. I put section of diffuser under the light above the blasto. Unfotunatly it's glued in place so moving it to lower light is not an option. Direct light is not the best place for this coral.

Thanks art13. I have the capability to test cal, but I will have to buy a alk kit. I used a buffer that is suppose to keep the alk in proper range, but I never actually checked it.

Torch is improving. I don't think it was the hammer that was causing the problem. It was just too much flow. Now My blasto and lobo don't look too happy. My nitrates have been between 10 & 20 mg/l for the last few weeks. I have been doing a lot of water changes to try to keep them down. My...

I might have had it in a bit too much flow on it. I have redirected my return pipe, from the sump, that also serves as my power head. The flow around the torch is nice and soft now. It's been moved away from the hammer now. The lighting should be ok. This was my fastest growing coral 2 weeks ago...

I'm very proud to say I have gone over a week without buying a frag. I'm trying to let the tank settle for a while. Fotunately I havn't needed and supplies lately, so I haven't been exposed to a frag tank.

I moved the torch. I will update if the coral show improvement or not. It may just be that some individual specimens are more aggressive than others.

It seems to be common knowledge, that torches, hammer & frogspawn are similar spiecies, and are immune to each other's sting. I was aware that they will sting all other coral species. I'm not questioning wheather or not they sting other corals or not. I already know they do. My question is...