Recent content by zigman

Hi, As a follow up to my earlier ID question, now identified as flatworms, I took a closer look at my eagle eye zoanthid. It is fairly sizable now, and about 15-20% developed what looked to me like little white blisters on it - it otherwise opens up fine and none of it has died, and it really...

Hi Had a power outage for bout 4 hours and during that time literally thousands of these guys coated the glass on the tank. After power came back on, it took several days for them to disappear. Anyone know what they are? Was thinking some type of copepod but I couldn't find any pictures on the...

Finally, a whole tank shot just give an overview. I think it looks pretty cool for just 3 months in.

Finally, a coral that was labeled a tooth coral, but am pretty sure is actually a candy cane

Next up, a green yuma ricordea

Sorry its been a while but was busy and figured it was a good idea to lets things settle down for a while before adding anything else to the tank. Couldn't wait any longer, though, so here are some pics of three new additions to my tank. First off, a green torch to light things up a bit!

What air pumps are you talking about? I looked at whole house automatic generators when we built our house but prohibitively expensive, we evacuate for hurricanes, and didn't have an expensive tank of perishable fish and coral when I was planning the house. Not sure if I could retrofit an auto...

Another suggestion I was given to lower nitrates was to change out or add Purigen and Chem Pure Elite (CPE) to the media rack instead of or in addition to the activated carbon. Worked well for me, but water changes should work too.

Ok another day another near disaster. Apparently we had a brief power outage ( common in Florida with storms) but this one popped the circuit breaker to the room with the tank! Since everything else went back on, didn't notice for about 10 hrs. Temp in tank dropped to 72 degrees, everything...

Ok, thanks to some smart questions asked by Redsea Kev on the direct support thread, I think I have identified some newbie errors I have been making. First, it appears when reading the Mg level on the Redsea Pro test kit, you stop when the blue color appears for about 10 seconds, EVEN if it...

Hi Neil, sorry to hear about your troubles when your tank was looking so great. I am no expert, having started my tank just 2 months ago, but thought I might share a few thoughts. I too decided I needed to raise my alkalinity to Redsea reccd 12.1 and added reef supplement b at daily max amount...

Beautiful tank!

Your tank looks amazing! You must sit and just stare at it for hours.

You are not kidding. The Duncan just goes crazy when it is feeding time, then wraps around the food while enjoying it before opening again waiting for more. The baby polyps have easily doubled in size since I first got it.