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  1. Sk8r

    ViaAqua sk200 skimmer placement

    I'm betting the water level is supposed to rise to the top of the wide part in the bottom half, and there should be foam above that. You can solve your microbubbles problem by putting a hose on the outflow and routing it back to your sump inflow chamber. You can gain enough room for a refugium...
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    Hermit crab sleeping habits

    They'll sometimes do that when they're preparing to molt.
  3. Sk8r

    so far so good: kalk reactor

    :eek2: set up over 2 weeks ago, BAS reactor on a 54 bow reef, and after initial silliness involving a)you need a check valve and b) the filmy stuff goes in the tank, not the white stuff---all is well. I'd heard about this supplementation system for years [1 dose, both alk AND cal] but never...
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    Holding my breath!!!!!

    Going through the same thing. Delays have kept my live rock in buckets a day longer than planned. Watering tomorrow. Fingers crossed for us both!
  5. Sk8r

    Float Switches - need suggestions

    I got a dual from www.autotopoff.com that has been tough and accurate.
  6. Sk8r

    how dead is dead?

    I'm delighted with the 12k reeflux. Dimmer to our eyes but more potent for the corals, and bluer.
  7. Sk8r

    Goby?

    I use about 4". That's deep enough for the bacteria to layer themselves nicely but not so deep you get dead spots. Your sandbed will be full of living stuff, bacteria mostly, and you should never stir it up all at once: that can crash a tank, bigtime. The best sandbed cleaners: a yellow...
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    Goby?

    They were kidding you---I hope. Gobies spit the sand out their gills and make a mound---of cleaned sand. A yellow watchman would be about right for a 30. A diamond [dragon] goby would be too much---they're such fanatic sand movers they shift rock and stripmine a tank under 75g.
  9. Sk8r

    Blue sponge

    I've been googling your suggestion of bryozoa, and while I can't find the specific type [mine is very basic structure, not the fine lacework sort] it does bear a lot of resemblence. It's possibly tubular, and if there's anything 'signature' about the way it grows, it's the two-horned structure...
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    Blue sponge

    Too thick, too red. This is the color of coralline algae and waves in the current, but thank you, Boomer. Alas, I've not been able to get a picture up on this forum. I need to get my photoshop software onto this computer so I can resize.
  11. Sk8r

    Blue sponge

    more like paragorgia, but very thready. Looks like my live rock acquired a venous system.
  12. Sk8r

    Blue sponge

    Apprentice, I was able to google amphimedon compressa, and what we have is not it: amphimedon compressa grows in fingers with pore-holes and the picture I found showed a red sponge. I call mine blue or purple, but it compares well to coralline, and I'm using Ushio 10000k lights, which might mean...
  13. Sk8r

    Blue sponge

    I have a threadlike blue or purple sponge that hitchhiked in and now is pretty prolific. It anchors to rock like branching veins, occasionally grows extensions, is very limp and about the diameter of ordinary twine. That wouldn't be one of the offenders, would it?
  14. Sk8r

    Help!White creatures!!

    Copepods are good. Feed a little phyto to keep them going.
  15. Sk8r

    Newbie Needs Help

    Be careful on Flatworm Exit if you have a lot of them: equivalent to having a very large fish die in your tank if you have a big mass of flatworms. Follow instructions carefully, oxygenate!!! and watch any tangs---they take a lot of oxygen.
  16. Sk8r

    Fish and corals do not mix

    nanofish are an asset.
  17. Sk8r

    four new hitchhikers

    Cool. They certainly have the pattern of chalk basslets.
  18. Sk8r

    Have You Ever Tried to Save Something?

    Back in my college days I made two rescues, both because the lfs had tippy rock and it kept falling over on their specimens. My first was a seahorse. I took her mate, too. I kept them pretty successfully until a party downstairs poisoned the air with smoke. [I was furious.] I also rescued a...
  19. Sk8r

    Montipora Question

    Just keep the leathers downwind of the monti, and everybody should do all right. If the monti doesn't grow well, run carbon a lot. Monti isn't as sensitive as some other sps, and will heal rapidly from a burn if given half a chance. Mine coexists with discosoma mushrooms, and gets burned, and...
  20. Sk8r

    Montipora Question

    Digitata and foliosa will grow like weeds if you keep the cal up, and if you break digitata, it will encrust first and then grow fingers like crazy.
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