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I have a pair. The watchman and the pistol stay under one rock which is covered in zoas. No ill effects whatsoever as far as I can tell. My royal gramma took up residence right next to them in a cave and I never see him/her anymore; must only come out at night. I have a negative space rock scape...
Filtration does not remove copper. Some media supposedly absorbs copper and can change levels. Best media is plastic bio balls as they won’t absorb copper. I keep two bags in my sump if I need to set up a quarantine. Even then ammonia can be a problem. Get one of those seachem ammonia alerts and...
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...
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...
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 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...