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  1. K

    Coral Recovery

    I had a hermit crab break off one of my smaller corals and it landed upside down. I had not notticed it being there for a couple of days. When I found it some of the tips had turned white. Should I leave it like this or prune off the white part? Coral is a Stylophora species...fuzzy small...
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    Need help with an ID

    Let me try this one....Humaneous corpus paperdium (human faced crab) lol :p
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    Autopsy of Flaming Dwarf Angel

    I lost my Flaming Dwarf today. Wife says he was hiding out in a rock at noon and now he is dead. No visible trauma, no visible diseases, was feeding fine in the morning. Not breathing and no rigamortus yet. Any ideas....maybe picking on polyps and got poisoned? Should I rip open stumock and...
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    Let's Talk About ~Snails~

    Hi guys, I noticed you put a pic of the Stomatella snail in the last post....I found one last week in my sump and my brother found one in his. We couldn't find any info on these so I am glad I know the name of that snail now. Is this a good snail or a bad snail?
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    Winter Coral Woes.... Anyone Else

    I have had a green with blue tip started this last week to have a white patch on one side that seems to be growing. looks like it is bleaching...don't know what the problem is. I changed the location just in case some water circulation was effecting it being near some other corals but it...
  7. K

    Spawning

    Spawning. I have had some little blue and black damsels spawn a couple of times in the same area of the tank. They defend this area with their life but eventually all the eggs disappear. Crabs, bristle worms, other fish...don't know why or who gets them but how do I save them from getting eaten?
  8. K

    Image of Fish Infected by Amyloodinium

    opps sorry wrong page
  9. K

    Caulerpa Problems Poll

    Hi, I have tried to use the bubble Caulerpa and the razor Caulerpa twice. Both times I had the same results of the hard corals and anenomes dieing or parts of them dieing in the whole tank. I had less drastic results with the bubble Caulerpa but dramatic die off results withe the razor...
  10. K

    Time to revamp the lights and I need some advice

    You should try the 14k bulb....they give the same light spectrum as a 10k but give a high peak in the blue spectrum...not as high as the 20k but very sufficient. The end result is a white light that is a little bit blue but no where like the 20k blue. The growth rate for corals I think is...
  11. K

    DIY ballast questions

    Ok your power cord hooks up white (on the power cord)to common gnd on ballast. The black on the ballast hooks up to the black on the power cord. The green wire is a safety ground wire. It hook up to the carrier wire (if you have one and to the chassis on the lamp fixture and also the ballast...
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    DIY ballast questions

    Hi Miniatas! It very good that you are asking questions...this way you will be able to handle this difficult (but simple for me task). I am an electrician. To answer your first question: The minimum distance from the balast is 6 inches of wire so the capasitor can be 1 inch away from the...
  13. K

    PH, ALk, Ca, NH4 help please

    Thanks for your help. I got the PH up to 8.3 by opening some windows near the tank and sump. I will get an air line vented to the outside for the protein skimmer venturi hose. Ca is now 380 ppm and alk is 110 ppm (6.16 dkh) and PH is 8.3 I added just a little Ca mix and pro-buffer together to...
  14. K

    Hitchhiker Project

    Hitch hiker snail Here is a snail I found last night...looked like a conch snail at first but the head and foot are orange and the shell is dark brown with some pattern. The mouth comes out the valuted end..which looks like a conch snail. I looked it up in the book of Marine Atlas and the...
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    PH, ALk, Ca, NH4 help please

    I rearanged the tanks rock after I drained the tank to do some work...took 7 hours to empty tank, do the work, and refill. Some of the algae died on the tank walls...so the die off and inbalance may have come from this. I had some die off from the algae on the rocks since the light changed for...
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    PH, ALk, Ca, NH4 help please

    I didn't have any NH4 in my system until I tried to increase the PH. My tank is 6 months old. I siphoned the bottom of the tank when I found the NH4 came up. For the Most part I haven't had any NH4 since the first breakin period. I have quite a bio load tho and I have cut back on my feeding...
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    Calling all Clown Fish Lovers

    Hi, nice to hear that you are getting into the saltwater thing. You may want to review the chemisty section. It was really an eye opener. I am new to this reef thing...been running for 6 months now and run into a few problems....things change over the cource of a year. Make sure you do some...
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    PH, ALk, Ca, NH4 help please

    My PH is low...7.9 in morning and 8.0 durring the day. I boosted my alkalinty but it dropped my Ca. So I add some Ca to bring it up and then my PH drops some more. I add Washing Soda..just a little in premixed in some water and add slowly during the day. The PH goes up to 8.1 but then so does...
  19. K

    Sea Anenome twisting arms and severing

    So thanks for the info...ugh! Does anyone have a scientific explanation for why they twist or kink the arms. Does it have to do with the water conditions...lack of something?
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    Sea Anenome twisting arms and severing

    Thanks Terry. I have a younger anenome of the Sabae Halu which is doing fine and is covered with coraline algae...gives it a pink/grey look instead of white..the color I got it has. I was wanting to get a bigger one for the clowns but this one didn't last very long...it was trying to hide and...
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