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Most of the time, I would agree with you. . . But to be perfectly honest I have livestock in my tanks from the petco at brick that is doing very well, and when I was still in school, I got more than one animal from the petco in brick . . . Animals that typically had a very good survival rate. I...
It has been a very long time since we updated this thread. . .so here goes.
We added my bali wild caught clowns to this tank on Thursday. Moved the helfrichi down to the 45g about two weeks ago, and we moved the Dracula goby to the 45g about a month ago- he kept jumping into the back...
We moved a couple of fish around this month. We moved the Dracula goby and the helfrichi firefish from the 12g into the 45g, and we added a strawberry crab. We also moved the red linkia into this tank.
Congratulations on the new tank!
Neon gobies are great for a tank of that size. Watch out for clown gobies if you want to keep sps, they perch and nest on the branches, which can be a problem if your colonies are small. Catalina gobies are lovely, but they are cold water fish; at reef...
If this has been going on for a year, all signs point to something resulting in excess nutrients in your tank.
You do not sound like you are overstocked, and you do not sound like you are over feeding. From what you said about the lights, it does not sound like they are the problem. I am...
Hi dangerbird,
I have a couple of questions.
What kind of salt mix are you using? What are you mixing your saltwater in? When was the last time you checked the TDS on the water coming out of the ro/di? Are you using ro/di for your top-offs?
What livestock do you have in the tank?
You said...
Another way to avoid the problem is to re- mount all frags you bring home (which assumes the coral is something you can remount) I currently have bubble algae in two tanks, and that is how it arrived- on a frag plug, but so tiny that I didn't see it immediately.
I am fighting it off with...