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Your Alk is a little low too. Try raising that up from 7 to somewhere between 8 - 12 and maybe the ph will rise too. I believe my ph is lower when my alk is low.
Agreed. AC has virtually no competition. Aquarium Discount and In Living Color went out of business, and Value Pets declined, AC is now basically it. Fish selection is really good, just corals are way over priced and really not impressive. When In Living Color opened, it was so nice to have...
Metal Halide & VHO for me. I've got (2) - 250 Watt SE MH's and (2) 110 Watt VHO's. My ballasts are just the cheapo DIY Advance Magnetic ballasts, I got from the hellolights with a standard 46.5" reflector. I've played around with bulbs, started with 10K XM, then each year tried a different...
I didn't notice a phosphate test result, unless I missed it. That could be feeding the hair algae. I've read of others that had issues after switching salt mixes, so maybe.
Fragged the hammer, here's the actual frag for sale - $15. I'm lowering the Green Mushroom frag - $5, you can see it to the right of the hammer with the star rapping around it. Sorry for the crappy photo, the glass needs to be clean and I just stirred up the tank. The tiny Frogspawn is free...
I've got some corals in need of fragging. One is a large Purple/Green Tip Torch, the other is a Hammer. I'm either going to frag for the August meeting or take them to the LFS. I prefer to frag for members. I just don't have the room to store any frags. Let me know if anybody is interested...