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I had posted earlier about my screwup with buffering the tank at home which ended up with a really high alk and a really low calcium reading. I have been slowly raising the calc level and another problem has come up. I'm getting a slime that is covering everything in the tank. I can't really...

I thought I would post this so maybe someone else will learn from my stupidity and not make the same mistake. This past Friday night I was doing some of my regular checks on the 75G at the house and found that the pH was a little low. Generally this means I need to recharge the kalkreactor, but...

My office tank is a JBJ Nano cube with the stock pump replaced with a minijet 606. I slotted the upper left overflow to help eliminate the surface film. I added a 50W heater, the lighting is stock.

My sailfin tang was fine this morning when I left for work, but when my wife got home she couldn't find him. I've looked all around in case he found the carpet more interesting, no luck. I've checked everyhwere in the tank I can without tearing it down. Nothing looks out of sorts and ammonia...

On request from Gina and Wooddood, here is a link to the video that the photos of my angler were taken from. Gina, The ghost shrimp was provided as food, nothing shrimp like survives around him for long.... http://home.comcast.net/~whampton/angler01.wmv

Hi All, I've had my striated angler for a few weeks now and I am working on getting him to take krill as opposed to live food. While we are getting there, does anyone have any recommendations as to live feeders to give him? He was eating ghost shrimp at the LFS and that is working okay, but I...

I picked up a bottle the other day at the LFS to try on the aptasia I have spreading in my 'fuge. This stuff works great. You just squirt it above the aptasia and they eat it up and start to whither away. In a few hours the three I treated were gone and I saw no ill effects on any thing else in...

Just wanted to thank Joe @ InReef, I ordered a new RO/DI unit for the house Sunday night and it arrived at my office today. The unit was packed very well and looks great, I'll be hooking it up either tonight or this weekend depending on plans and I will let everyone know how it works. Fast...

I bought my wife a 50G tank for her birthday and we have been getting together the equipment to set it up. I wanted to get suggestions on what lighting folks here would suggest. The tank is 30.5" long and 20.5" deep. It will have a two inch sandbed. I will be building the canopy. It will be a...

I'm having a problem with an Acropora Colony I've had for about 6 months now. The problem started about three days ago. I noticed that a couple of the branches were not polyped out as usual and on closer inspection I found that they were now white skeletons with no tissue on them at all. The...

I've been fighting a hair algae problem in my main tank for 4 months now and finally I seem to have turned the corner and it is going away. I thought I would list the various suggestions that were made and what effect if any they had on the problem. Initially I reduced feedings, checked...

I posted a couple of pics of a new chili coral in my gallery and mredman has asked a couple of questions, so I thought I would share what I know about it at this point. Chili corals (Alcyonium sp.) are also known as chili sponges and strawberry corals. They are not photosynthetic, but are...

One of my staff has a 75G tank she wanted to sell and I had finally talked my wife into letting me get it (she didn't want to lose any more space to another tank yet). Then today she calls and lets me know that she has just bought a 30 gallon tank with stand and hood from one of our LFS. She has...

I've been fighting the ongoing hair algae battle for a while now. Cut back hard on feeding, changed lighting periods, added cleaner crew (lettuce nudis, emerald crabs, more snails, etc.) change filters on the RO/DI unit, double checked for phosphates, etc. etc. I have scrubbed rock and hanged...