It is copper for sure!!!Place Cuprisorb in a canister as quickly as you can!!!!!!!!!
I had the same problem in my first aquarium.Nothing except fish can live with copper in the water.
Thank you guys!!
I have 4-5 times the main tank volume circulation through the sump.I have an ETSS reef devil skimmer in the front chamber of the sump with 700g/h feeding pump and a deltec apf 600 skimmer with 200g/h feding pump.I found that the first skimmer contributes mostly on areation of...
What is that reading of nitrites you are getting?Xenia loves nutrients in the water and high quality of water clean of polutants!Mine likes heavy feading(not targeted).Xenia also likes light..........did you not changed the lambs properly?
Τhese acro crabs were eating from mileppora and acro humilis polyps, stripping the whole branch!!!!!!!
Can they multiply in the tank?I kepp getting reports from other hobbists that they see juveniles without adding new corals to the tank!!
A strange thing, I have a few of them swimming in the bubble trap, where the water flows freelly, and theris not either chaeto or caulerpa....The bubble trap is not illuminated as refugium is.....any chance the suddent light inncrease when the huge colony of caulerpa went off,has desimated the...
I don't use halides, I have 330 Watt T5 hanging 17 '' over most sps, my main tank is 100 G and the sump is 50 G,sorry....
I maybe taking out too much PO4 (30% more rowaphos than needed).........
I will check the calcium, thanks!
Try dosing str., It is related with the equilibrium of Ca, Mg, and Alk, and it keeps them in solution....Boomer could say more about this, my knowledge in inorganic chemistry are practical and limited to basic reef..........!
I deal with a problem in my 150 G mainly sps tank with a few ephylias, trachyphilias plerogyra sinuosa and a fungia.
There is a sump with a refugium with plenum dsb aragonite-mineral mud and chaetomorpha above it.Skimming is done with a aquamedic shotry 5000 rated for 250Gs.A EHIEM 2213 (small...
What is the water flow in your refugium?I had many mysids before increasing the flow from 500g/h to 1000g/h, and geting all the caulerpa racemosa out,replaced by chaetomorpha.....I don't know what cause them to dissapear.......
The refugium is appr. 45 gallons
I would put a New Jet or a mag type pump with 2500-3000 l/h( 600-800 g/h) . I had one, it worked well for 120G reef...
Keep the air inlet klean from salt creep internaly...clean it with acid or vinegar every 6-10 months!
Feeding fish will raise phosphates too!!!I want to raise nitrates from zero to 5 ppm in order my macroalgae to be able to absorbe the phosphate ions.(I cannot measure PO4 but I know they are there because of the frequent cleaning of the glass(every 2-3 days) of my aquarium!!
hello guys!I need to raise nitrates in my reef a bit!Can I dose sodium nitrate with kalkwasser in the same vessel?(My top off system) .Is there any interaction between these substances?
I only found that:
http://www.marinedepot.com/FORUMS/Topic31649-13-1.aspx...
it is not from reefcentral.....never mind, I will bother Minos Pagonis...!!!Thanks again!